Kumbo Council bring smiles to holiday makers

The annual holiday job program at the Kumbo Council has ended with the mayor calling on beneficiary students and pupils to judiciously use the token (20.000 fcfa) they are paid to procure their school needs or pay their fees.

Addressing beneficiary students/pupils during a ceremony to officially end the holiday job program, Mayor Evaristus Fonyuy Njong praised them for being disciplined and respectful during the exercise. He thanked them for keeping major public places and streets clean in the Kumbo Municipality during the 2-month holiday job.

The Mayor said sports was introduced in the program because the council wanted to make sure it was not all work and no play. He emphasized that the sports element afforded a forum to detect talents and it permitted other students who were not shortlisted for the program to be occupied during the holiday period. He seized the opportunity to congratulate those who excelled well in sports.

In this vein, he announced that subsequently special prizes would be awarded to the most performing students/pupils in sports. There would also be prizes for the most disciplined boy and girl and the best prefect.

Since 1996, the Kumbo Council has been employing at least 100 students and pupils for two months each third term holiday.

The aim of the program is to assist school children to procure some of their school needs. Apart from this the project also occupies school children during the holidays thereby preventing them indulging in delinquent acts.

The main target persons of the holiday job program are hardworking children from very poor backgrounds. Selection is based on promotion results.

Activities of the program include cleaning of offices, sweeping and weeding, planting of natural trees, clearing of blocked drainages, and compulsory sports once a week.