April & CID + your language
April & CID works with communities that have never had a book in their own language. We translate on the page and aloud, train the linguists who carry the work, and move finished Scripture to the churches that asked for it.
April & CID + your culture
When the Psalms went into Kom, the work went to poets, pastors and oral-literature specialists, and several of them turned out to be musicians. Sixty-three Psalms were translated, set to songs and recorded.
Featured project · Psalms that sing
Kom was one of six languages chosen for the 2022 pilot. The recordings travelled through WhatsApp to Kom families in Europe and the United States.
“I memorised the first four verses of this Psalm years ago because it spoke to and about my life. Then I read it in Kom.”
Dr. Kimbi Paul, on Psalm 103, after the third Kom workshop
Our mission is to collect, translate and disseminate development-related information in the areas of health, agriculture, nutrition, and human and civil rights, into national languages.
Between 2,500 and 3,500 New Testament verses translated orally into Hijuk and Mbula, and published as audio.
Centre RegionHijuk, Mbula
A local team in Bamenda is translating the Old Testament into Kom, the first community-driven translation project of its kind in Cameroon. Every draft is published free to read.
North West RegionKom
Sixty-three Psalms translated with Kom poets and musicians, composed into songs, recorded and printed.
North West RegionKom
Bibles and Bible portions moved into around fifteen Cameroonian languages under an agreement with CABTAL.
NationalFifteen languages
A three-year project opens in the Centre Region, translating the New Testament aloud for two communities that read very little.
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Four workshops, a team of poets, pastors and translators, and a booklet dedicated in Kom country.
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A memorandum of understanding opens the way for Bibles and Bible portions in roughly fifteen Cameroonian languages.
Read the articleHijuk, MbulaCentre Region
Year two of three
KomNorth West Region
Kom 3 proposal under review
KomNorth West Region
Pilot complete
Fifteen languagesNational
Running since 2021
20 books
Old Testament books translated into Kom since 2020
The Kom churches asked for the Old Testament in 2015 and supply its translators, which makes it the first community-driven project of its kind in Cameroon. Two phases since March 2020 have translated twenty books and revised all four Gospels. The team publishes checked and unchecked drafts online, so Kom readers can test the work while it can still change.
“More transformed lives.”
A project adviser — Asked what the Kom translation would change
Dr. Peter Yuh Kimeng, senior consultant on the Kom Old Testament
Plate II — the Kom community during a project visit
These were registered with the association in 2014 under the 1990 law of association. They have not been revised, and everything the organisation does follows from them.
Organise distribution of the portions already translated, and encourage people to read, listen and sit with them.
Health, agriculture, nutrition and human rights, into the languages people think in rather than the ones they were schooled in.
Comparative work on cultures and knowledge systems, put to use rather than filed away.
Argue their case where decisions about them are made.
Move cultural and contemporary knowledge between older and younger speakers before the link breaks.
Whether you are funding a translation team, sending your congregation's support, or asking for Scripture in a particular language, the route is the same length — it just starts somewhere different.
Underwrite a project year: translators, consultants, workshops and the travel that makes them possible.
Work alongside us the way CABTAL and Wycliffe US do — on distribution, training, or a language of your own choosing.
There is no online shop. Write to us with the language and the quantity, and we will tell you what exists and what it costs.
