Tobin is the second-largest city in the North West Region of Cameroon and the headquater of Bui Division. It lies about 2000 m above sea level and is situated approximately 110 km away from the regional capital Bamenda, on the Bamenda Highlands Ring Road. Kumbo has a population of 80 212 at the 2005 Census and is split into three distinctive hilly settlements: Tobin, Mbveh, and Squares. Tobin is a fast-growing cosmopolitan quarter in Kumbo. This quarter is estimated to host some ten thousand inhabitants made up of civil servants, farmers and business men and women of all walks of life in a dispersed settlement. It is the administrative headquarter of Kumbo by virtue of its numerous offices and public, confessional and lay private institutions among which are: the Senior Divisional and the Divisional Offers Services, the Municipal Council, 5 educational establishments (3 nursery and primary, 2 secondary and high, and 1 teacher training institution), 1 health centre, 1 hotel, 1 Mosque, 4 Churches, and the list continues. It is at the heart of Tobin, also known as Bajing, that Abundant Life Baptist Church Tobin is situated.

The Tobin Borehole Water Development Project will be constructed in the courtyard of Abundant Life Baptist Church Tobin with boundary neighbours being the Bui High Court at the adjacent and the Tourists Hotel on the other side of a dividing road. This site is situated 200 meters from Tobin Roundabout at the way-in side and 200 meters from Mosque at the way-out side of Bajing in Tobin. Bajing is a miniature sub-quarter within Tobin which is thickly populated with state functionaries, business persons, farmers, students, and job-seeking graduates.

The problem of water scarcity has been existing in Tobin for over a decade now when the over-aged Kumbo Water (KW) meant to supply the households at the time of construction could no longer meet the needs of large and fast-growing population. Besides, the iron pipes conveying the precious liquid from the catchment tank from up 3 the Tooy hill to popular points and some wealthy individuals’ homes have been wearing and tearing over time to the extent that whenever the scarce liquid is flowing, it was tainted brown with iron rust. Before the outbreak of the Anglophone Crisis in 2016, the Kumbo Water Authority (KWA), a body that is in charge of repairs, maintenance and treatment of the water could not do much more than repair broken pipes and add detergents in the water. Able people go for bottled water (Tangui, Supermont, etc) and have their way out. Some buy household-size water filters and could at least collect and filter the water before using. But, the low-class are damned to consume the water as polluted as it is, pay bills to the water authority at the end of the month, then get themselves treatment of waterborne diseases especially typhoid fever. Scared of the colour and odour of the pipeborne water, some individuals and households do fetch water from the lone stream popularly called ‘the River Bui’ that cuts across the town. But it is in the same river that most household and even township wastes are poured. Since the eruption of the Anglophone Crisis in October 2016 and the frequent deadly confrontations between security forces and the ‘boys in the bushes’, the problem of water insecurity in Kumbo as a whole and in Tobin in particular has grown worse as the personnel of the KWA are not able to access strategic water catchments for pipe maintenance or water treatment, fear of being caught in a crossfire. Taps have gone dry and the population is experiencing a veritable nightmare.

Abundant Life Baptist Church Tobin exists not only to ensure the spiritual welfare of individuals, groups and populations but also that their physical and psychosocial needs are met. We believe that man without a healthy spirit in a healthy mind in a healthy body is incomplete. It is on this backdrop that we have decided to take action to meet a physical need of the people of Tobin through the provision of portable water.

Upon completion, the Tobin Borehole Water project is anticipated to decrease in the prevalence of waterborne diseases (typhoid, cholera) and thousands of users experience good health and wellbeing , improved environmental, water hygiene and sanitation (WASH) , improved standards of living as users experience decreased expenditure on portable water, improved health of especially chidlren, girls and women in the community

We are till mobilizing resource for the project