Brasseries awards scholarships to best pupils

Less privileged pupils and students across Cameroon have been receiving scholarships from the leading brewery in Cameroon, Les Brasseries du Cameroun. Les Brasseries awards the scholarships; in a bid to encourage these children who performed exceedingly well during the 2012/2013 academic year.

The turn of Northwest candidates to receive the awards was on December11, at the Bamenda Congress Hall, where Brasseries doled out FCFA9million to some 64 best pupils and students.

The Interim Regional Director of LesBrasseries for the Northwest, Dieudonne Michel Ondoko, thanked the parents, sponsors, teachers as well as the pupils and students for playing their respective roles in education.

He assured them that Brasseries du Cameroun will never relent in its efforts in promoting excellence in education.Ondoko said, for this year’s edition of “Encouraging Excellence”, there were 377 beneficiaries who will receive FCFA 62 million including the 64 best candidates in the Northwest who took home a total of FCFA 9million.

The Secretary General at the Northwest Office, MononoWoloa, hailedLes Brasseries for investing in education and assured the company of Government’s constant support.

“The occasion falls within the period of the coming of Christ and that of sharing and the scholarships should not be seen as crowning your achievements, but as a catalyst to catapult you to greater heights. Brasseries have demonstrated the love they have for our children’s education and we, on our parts, should promote their activities,” Monono averred.

The Regional Delegate of Basic Education for the Northwest, Susan Fon Nyanga Tatah, and the Sub Director of Exams at the Regional Delegation of Basic Education, Elizabeth Mofor, also hailed Brasseries, especially for the interest in awarding scholarships to female children.

Condemning brain drain, Elizabeth Mofor advised the laureates not to “fall bush” because, she explained; “I have relations who are crying to come back to Cameroon and do not have the means. Outside there, now, is hell, especially when you do not have a good job, else you join the rest who are more or less slaves in the Whiteman’s land.”