About Us
Our
History
Sustainable Initiatives international is a charitable organization dedicated to fostering a more just and equitable society by fighting poverty and spatial inequality.
Sustainable Initiatives international, started in Cameroon (Africa) in 2014 by the founder (Tah Pascar Tagwan), who, as an undergraduate student, initiated efforts to provide essential assistance, including partial tuition support to orphans’/students from extremely poor families, food and financial support to elderly parents living in remote villages under deplorable conditions, and mentorship to young individuals who had lost hope due to their circumstances (especially family background).
According to the founder, the aforesaid action was taken to express gratitude to God for bringing him to a level (university education) that he could never have imagined was possible given his background (both family and geographical).
While offering assistance to a small number of people, in 2016, war broke out in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon and led to a geometric increase in the number of people requiring immediate assistance. The founder tried his best to accommodate more people but was limited financially. In 2020, given the rapid growth of the operations, the founder decided to register the foundation under the name “Emerge African Youth Empowerment Foundation” in order to allow external parties to contribute through donations, facilitate the distribution of resources to those in need, and be recognized legally.
In 2023, the owner’s wife, who had also experienced similar hardships, made the decision to support the impoverished and less privileged. This led to the owner’s decision to rename the foundation as the Tah&Neh Research Youth Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation Foundation, or simply the Tah&Neh Foundation. The foundation was then registered in Japan and Hong Kong to demonstrate its credibility and trustworthiness, as well as to reach people of diverse cultural backgrounds whose dreams are in one way or another limited by poverty or spatial discrimination.
From 2014, when this foundation started, till December 31, 2023, all the financial and material provision has come from the founder, his wife, and a few family members of goodwill (Diana Njoh, Akwi Njoh, and Ambe Njoh). We only began applying for external grants in January 2024 due to the ongoing increase in the number of people in need of help, particularly youths, and our desire to provide sustainable solutions to a wider audience, a goal that exceeds the founder’s personal financial resources at the moment.
Our Believe
Sustainable Initiatives international was established mainly for the purpose of poverty alleviation with a main focus in Africa. We do this by researching on the root course of poverty within communities to better understand how best to tackle it, empower youths by training them in sustainable discipline suitable for their communities, and provide them with start-up financial capital. We also offer charitable services such as the provision of food to old people living in abject poverty especially those in interior villages, provide sanitary pads and special funding to boost female educational advancement and general merited based scholarship to institutions in Cameroon.