CERAC To Consolidate Achievements In 2017

The charitable association of Cameroon’s First Lady will intensify its humanitarian activities in all nooks and crannies of Cameroon.

Just like in previous years, national and members of the diplomatic wing of the Circle of Friends of Cameroon (CERAC) have decided to consolidate the ambitious humanitarian goals set up in 1995 by its Founding President, Mrs Chantal Biya. During the association’s 24^th General Assembly recently in Yaounde, the ladies joined Mrs Chantal Biya, Goodwill Ambassador for Education and Social Inclusion, to draw an action plan and adopt a budget for 2017 which will be fully used to intensify its solidarity crusade in all the ten regions of the country as well as to implement projects of humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations, improve living conditions, health and access to education for all kids.

Besides the challenges the association will face in 2017, the women have resolved that all projects in 2017, including ongoing 2016 projects, should be completed by June 2017.  CERAC‘s solidarity train will therefore not only visit all the nooks and crannies of Cameroon with messages of hope and gifts of love, but also cross the borders of Cameroon to neighbouring Gabon. The association’s members will have a fruitful time with women in that country, exchanging views on how they can make Africa a better place for all its citizens. Chantal Biya and her team of determined ladies have drawn a 2017 action plan that divides the year into four semesters of intense humanitarian activities.    

While CERAC will focus its first semester on some 2015 and 2016 projects in the Far North, North, Centre and South West Regions, the women will begin their second semester of char...