CERAC Trains, Equips Lembe-Yezoum Women

For over 24 years, almost everywhere in the country, the First Lady, Chantal Biya, who is Founding President of the Circle of Friends of Cameroon (CERAC), has continued to spread her message of solidarity. Through her humanitarian caravan, CERAC has continued unperturbed to taking gifts to those in need, in all the nooks and crannies of the country. That is why CERAC was over the weekend, March 2, 2019, at the heart of the forest in the Centre Region, precisely at Lembe-Yezoum in the Upper Sanaga Division, to hand over gifts and end-of-training certificates to Lembé-Yezoum women who had undertaken training in some modern agricultural techniques.

Ananga Messina née Clémentine Antoinette Beyene, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, in Charge of Rural Development, Vice-President of the College of Counsellors of CERAC presided at the ceremony in her capacity as the personal representative of the First Lady and in the presence other dignities, amongst them the Governor of the Centre Region, Naseri Paul Bea. This time around, CERAC did not just offer agricultural gifts, but trained the women on some modern agricultural techniques. The Head of Project at CERAC, Collete Mboto à Ngon said Lembé-Yezoum immediately embraced the project in its entirety and greatly mobilised. From February 27 to March 1, 2019, more than 60 women of the Lembé-Yezoum Sub division underwent intensive training for three days on the techniques of manufacturing compost manure, the large-scale cultivation of fruit trees, the transforming of cassava into flour, starch and garri, as well as the transformation of cocoa pulp into cocoa-butter.

The workshop was carried out as part of CERAC’s special programme for the 34th International Women’s Day celebration on the theme: “Crusade against the inequality in the Sexes: Getting aligned with the new dynamics.” The personal representative of the First Lady said issues that have to do with literacy, education and the training of women, especially those in rural areas, have become a priority to government policymakers, so too with CERAC’s actions.

On behalf of the First Lady, Ananga Messina née Clémentine, said the theme of celebration was about stepping up to the next level in the quest for solutions that will facilitate transition from the traditional economic system that are v...