Youth Empowerment : Matgenie signs convention with youths

Efforts to create more jobs for youths in the country have taken a more concrete turn. Last Friday, December 11, 2015, the National Civil Engineering Equipment Pool (MATGENIE) and the National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development (NCSAPD) signed a convention through which Matgenie is going to use its mechanical equipment to facilitate agricultural projects for youths in all the ten regions of the country.

While signing the convention, the Director General of Matgenie, Niwa Long Othon said following government solidarity, Matgenie is going to use its mechanical equipment to facilitate the accessibility of certain farmlands which will be used by youths in the country. 

Noting that Matgenie has the required tools, Niwa Long Othon said they are going to prepare and build spaces for cultivation especially in forestry and savannah areas. As such, Matgenie will cut trees as well as level certain areas so that youth groups will come in and make use of such lands thereby empowering them as development agents.

NCSAPD General Manager, Taossi said the convention will establish a support mechanism for the populations, particularly youths to create wealth through socio-economic integration. Mr Taossi said the project will not only develop youths in the rural areas but will also discourage rural exodus. According to the General Manager of the National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development, his institution has gone through the training of youths as volunteer farmers in different fields and now they are entering a different phase of the project in which they will provide farmlands through which these youths will carry out farming on any crops of their choice. This is to enable them positively contribute to an emerging Cameroon by 2035.