MINAS/Orange Foundation: Joint Efforts To Help The Disabled

A meeting to draw an action plan for 2017-2019 took place last Friday in Yaounde.

The first session of the committee charged with following up the convention signed between the Ministry of Social Affairs and Orange Foundation took place last Friday, February 17, 2017 during which priority areas of intervention were identified and validated.
During discussions chaired by the Minster of Social Affairs (MINAS), Pauline Iréne Nguene, who is also president of the committee, members elaborated what should be done between now and 2019 to improve the lives of vulnerable persons.    
Minister Pauline Iréne Nguene noted that within three years some FCFA 400 million will be mobilised to establish projects geared towards assisting vulnerable people in all the ten regions of the country.  Focus will be laid on the insertion and reinsertion of the disabled and vulnerable persons in the country as well as reinforcing the social protection of these groups of people through vocational training, modernisation and equipping of all structures that take care of people in distress amongst which are dis...