A partnership agreement had been signed between the president of the Chamber of agriculture, fisheries, livestock and forests of Cameroon (Capef), and a Belgian company to this effect on April 14 in Yaoundé.
Janvier Mongui Sossomba, president of Capef, and Michel Boucher, Director general of the Belgian company TWT, initiated the documents relating to the creation of a technical Centre for the wood crafts at the practical school of agriculture in Binguela.
This centre, which will soon open its doors, at the school established in 1962 with the support of the European Fund for development (FED), opens new horizons.
Thus, the sealed partnership is not only the opening in the coming months of a technical Centre for the wood crafts, but also, the training of trainers who will in turn train the Cameroonian youth interested in woodworking trades and thus to implement the vision of the creation of qualified employment and sustainable for the reduction of poverty and the assurance of economic growth in Cameroon.
For the president of the Capef, this centre will "receive Cameroonian youth who want to perfect what they already know, or learn something in this area, in order to allow them to create jobs for themselves first and create jobs for other Cameroonians.
This partnership will allow them to develop the Binguela site and build the first project of unity of the third wood processing in addition to this school of vocational training for the profession of wood.
The practical school of agriculture in Binguela located about 30 kilometers from Yaoundé is built on an area of 118 hectares. Its buildings, refectory, dormitory have recently been updated.
It has a wide scope, two drilling of 8 m 3 to supply the Castle and the campus, a storage unit of the newly stocked feed to an electric grinder, ponds waiting to be stocked."
The next technical trades Centre of wood will train young Cameroonian so as to place on the market products which can be sold in Europe, create jobs, create auto jobs', said January Mongui Sossomba.
