Communes get gov't package for schools

Two weeks after the school re-opening, only some public schools through the country received the equipment.

While one starts the third week of schools in the country, the minimum package which should normally allow the teaching body of the primary education to start the school year is not yet available in the classrooms.

This equipment, now managed by the decentralized territorial communities has reached the recipients, according to a variable calendar. In the East, regarded as a priority zone of education, twelve communes have witnessed the distributed the minimum package to their respective public schools.

These communes include, district of Bertoua II, Bertoua I, Mandjou, Ngoura, Diang and Belabo. In Lom and Djerem, the communes of Bétaré-Oya and Garoua-Boulaï have received theirs.

In the department of Haut-Nyong, with its fourteen administrative units, the mayors of Atok, from Dimako, Nguelemendouka and Doumaintang will discharge this duty soon.

In Kadey, the mayor of Ketté, Emmanuel Gbanda, did not await the re-entry to distribute the minimum package. And Yokadouma remains the only commune of Boumba and Ngoko to program the distribution of the aforesaid package during the weekend.

This package is generally made up of the pharmaceutical products for first aid for children, chalk, ball point pens, books of preparation of lecture notes, the class registers.