The Organization was informally started in 1999 mainly to provide relief to the numerous widows and orphans who were victims of HIV/AIDS and of Christian background. The heightened prevalence of HIV/AIDS at about 14% in 1999, in Cameroon, and the consequent rampant deaths, especially among the male folk, made women, especially, to suffer most. They were accused by their in-laws for killing their husbands through “witchcraft”; a reason to permit them cease & own the family property. Young widows were rejected and forced to swear over the corpses of their husbands; drink water used in cleaning the corpses, and were disinherited of their property, etc; all due to acute ignorance on the prevalence and effects of HIV/AIDS, and on human Rights.
Therefore, Anne Stella Fomumbod, in her Christian faith, mobilized some other Christian women to join her in providing relief to the numerous orphans and widows found around their vicinities, as their own practical way of serving God. In the course of providing the relief, many more social issues and challenges faced by the victims and their entire communities, were discovered. It was then realized that the target communities needed the right information, orientation and capacity to minimize the incident of HIV/AIDS and for their sustainable development.
Thus, the Organization was then registered for legal recognition in 2000 under the name ‘Aid International-Christian Women of Vision (AI-ChrisWoV). However after seven years of operation there was a growing need to go beyond Christians due to the expanding target group with diversified backgrounds and Faiths. It underwent an Organizational development process, sponsored by Volunteer Service Oversee (VSO), which entailed assessment and strengthening of the weak areas. Hence the change of name in January 2008 from AI-ChrisWOV to IVFCam (InterFaith Vision Foundation Cameroon).

IVFCam is today, a Female headed organization, founded in 2000 to care for Widows, People Living with HIV&AIDS, Orphans and other Vulnerable Children of mainly the Christian domain under the name Aid International Christian Women of Vision (AI-ChrisWOV). IVFCam is a Non-Governmental Charities & development organization with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations since 2013. With the headquarters in Bamenda, North West Cameroon, IVFCam serves underprivileged communities, especially women and children, in the areas of Human Rights & Good Governance, Health & HIV/AIDS, Economic Empowerment; and Charities for Orphans & Widows, within the national territory of Cameroon.

Our organization is bound: to be a Social Welfare Institution; to build up a vision and mission that reflects the need to improve on the socio-economic statusquo; to adopt an expanded service delivery with multiple programs for interventions; to adopt realistic operational strategies, methods and activities for interventions; and above all, to target the specific groups of children, women and health victims who are most vulnerable. This is elaborated below.