CERAC’s solidarity train in Bétaré Oya

The association of the First Lady over the weekend donated gifts to rural women, youth centres and health institutions in the Lom and Djerem Division.

Despite the distance, the solidarity train of the Circle of Friends of Cameroon (CERAC) braved the hurdles and covered some 500 kilometres from Yaounde to Bétaré Oya, a town, not far from the border of Cameroon and Central Africa Republic, just to express their love and care to the population of the Lom and Djerem Division of the East Region.

With a solidarity train full of gifts for rural women, youth empowerment centres and health institutions in the Lom and Djerem Division, the Personal Representative of the First Lady at the event, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Mrs Clémentine Ananga Messina, who is also Vice-President of the College of Advisers at CERAC had words of encouragement to the population, particularly to women who labour under rain and sun not just to feed their various families but the community at large.

Mrs Clémentine Ananga Messina said their presence at Bétaré Oya on July 16, 2016 fell within the objectives of CERAC launched in 1995 by its Founding President, Mrs Chantal Biya to fight against misery, exclusion, poverty, hatred and illnesses.

That is why the delegation of CERAC came along with special gifts such as trucks, cutlasses, hoes, fertilizers, wheelbarrows and other agricultural tools for some 12 rural women associations in the locality and medical equipment such as delivery beds, refrigerators, delivery and surgical kits, stethoscopes, blankets, blood pressure apparatus and mattresses for the Bétaré Oya Health District, the Ngoura and Ndokayo health Centres in the Sub-Division.

The benevolent association also handed sewing machines, a computer, printer, television set and ironing machine to the Youth Empowerment Centre of Bétaré Oya.

While calling on other goodwill people in the society to join CERAC in its solidarity crusade nationwide, the Personal Representative of the First Lady urged the beneficiaries to make proper use of the gifts which will improve their living conditions.

It was an occasion for the population through the voice of the President of the Network of Women Association, Angèle Adamou and Dr Robert Mathurin Bidjang, East Regional Delegate of Health to express their gratitude to a daughter of the land who is taking daily measures to ensure that the living and health conditions of her compatriots is assured.