Yuh Esthel Cheah is a humanitarian aid worker with over five years of field experience in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions. As a Social Worker at INTERSOS, she leads community sensitization on human rights, identifies victims of rights violations, and delivers psychosocial, material, and financial support to survivors while ensuring that they get legal aid. She also designs and manages income-generating activities for gender-based violence survivors and oversees family tracing and reunification for unaccompanied and separated children displaced by conflict.
Previously, Yuh served as a Protection Monitor with INTERSOS, where she collected, verified, and analysed data on civilian rights abuses to inform targeted interventions. She began her career as a social worker with Reach Out NGO and later at Social Center Bamenda 1 under the Ministry of Social Affairs, collaborating with courts, prisons, and schools to ensure that conflict-affected populations receive timely and appropriate assistance.
Yuh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Educational Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Social Work, and is a certified primary school teacher. Driven by a passion to alleviate rights violations and human suffering, she is committed to developing sustainable solutions that mitigate conflict and its long-term impacts such as poverty, unemployment, and community resilience in conflict affected communities.