Chantal Biya donates hygienic products to UNHCR

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, recently received two containers of hygienic products worth over FCFA 50 million aimed at securing the health conditions of refugees in the country.

The sanitary products were handed over on March 17 in Yaounde in a ceremony organised by the Founding President of African Synergy, Chantal Biya. The products were said to be intended to improve on the health conditions of refugees both from the Central African Republic due to the clashes there and those from Nigeria owing to the Boko Haram insurgency.

The Post learnt that the donation is the fruit of partnership which link between African Synergy to Canada-Cameroon West Africa chamber of Commerce (CCCCAO). The donation was said to have originated from the President of CCCCAO, Jason Yasin Erdem and wife, Chantal Erdem, as a sign of his humanitarian work which the President of African Synergy, in turn, handed over to the UNHCR, considering its need.

The aid, according to the Executive Secretary at the African Synergy Against AIDS and Suffering, Jean Stephane Biatcha, is directed towards the refugee camps because, presently, there are the ones desperately in need of such goods in the country.

“Nowadays, the people suffering the most and in need are the refugees, looking at the number as a result of high insecurity,” he said.

As a representative of Chantal Biya, Biatcha remarked that the products in the two containers will be shared equally to the refugee camps of the East and of the Far North. Relating a message from Chantal Biya, he said she sympathises with the forces that are at the battle front, day and night, trying to help out the refugees reinstate peace, stability and unity with their brothers and sisters. She called on people of goodwill to help the suffering and improve the living conditions of the African population.

According to the High Commissioner of Canada to Cameroon, Rene Cremonese, the donation is aimed at enriching the suffering and disabled refugees and is intended to go a long a way to help the over 200,000 refugees in Cameroon.

“This donation to the African Synergy by CCCCAO is a sign of solidarity to those acting to helping out the suffering to restore smiles and hope to those suffering. Jason Erdem said he was ready to continue working hand-in-glove with the African Synergy to see to it that the living conditions of the suffering and disabled is assuaged.