CERAC Generosity - Upper Plateau Joins Feast

Gratitude to the First Lady, Chantal Biya and CERAC, was displayed in dances, thunderous applause and speeches.

Just a day after inhabitants of Koung-Khi Division in the West Region received a newly constructed and equipped school and a consignment of farm inputs, it was the turn of Upper Plateau Division to celebrate before and after receiving medical and agricultural equipment from the First Lady, Mrs Chantal Biya through the Circle of Friends of Cameroon, CERAC. Thus, Sunday March 30, 2014, was the day CERAC women braved the road to the Bangou ceremonial grounds in Upper Plateau Division to commune with rural women and officials of 36 health institutions, including two District Hospitals and 23 Integrated Health Centres.

To ensure adequate health care for inhabitants of Baham, Bamendjou, Bangou and Batie Sub-divisions that constitute the Upper Plateau Division, surgical and delivery kits, hospital beds, microscopes and cartons of medicines - including amoxicillin 500 mg, chloramphénicol 250 mg, sodium bicarbonate, glucose, not leaving out syringes, cotton, plaster and spirit, among others - were joyfully handed to the numerous health institutions.

Rural women belonging to Common Initiative Groups, CIGs, women's groups and disabled persons, received farm inputs and other gifts among which were 28 wheel barrows, 36 sacks of fertilizer, 180 litres of insecticides, 410 hoes, 410 machetes, 1,000 kg of beans seed and 3,500 kg of maize seed to boost agriculture. Sewing and grinding machines, fabric, pressing iron and sewing threat were equally handed to some groups.

The Personal Representative of the Founding President of CERAC, Honorine Nkuete, assisted by the West Regional Delegate of CERAC, Véronique Nganou Djoumessi, travelled with charming messages of love and solidarity from the First Lady to the jubilant population. In the presence of the National Coordinator of CERAC, Dr. Linda Yang, the Personal Representative said since creation some 19 years back, CERAC has intervened in numerous domains, including education, health and agriculture as their contribution to the Greater Achievements policy of President Paul Biya and the drive towards emergence.

During the ground-breaking ceremony that marked a new dawn for the division, the Second Deputy Mayor for Bangou, who admitted seeing CERAC women and their philanthropic gestures only on television before, transmitted messages of gratitude through Mrs Honorine Nkuete to the First Lady for the timely gifts. At the Bangou ceremonial grounds, the Regional Delegate of Public Health and his colleague of Agriculture and Rural Development, added their appreciation to that of the spokesperson of the beneficiaries. They said the gifts will forever be engraved in the hearts of the population. The ceremony was spiced by the Queen's dance that left no CERAC member indifferent.