Tourism encouraged in SW primary schools

An excursion organised by the Delegation of Tourism and Leisure, enlightened pupils of the potentials of the region.

Some 50 pupils, drawn from Government Primary School Great Soppo, Kingston Bilingual Nursery and Primary School, Presbyterian Primary School Great Soppo, LadyBird Nursery and Primary school Clerk Quarters and Ecole Publique Francophone in Buea, last Saturday, May 3, 2014, embarked on a touristic and leisure trip in the town of Buea and its environs.

They visited the Reunification Monument, the South West Governor’s Office, Tole Tea Estate, Our Lady of Grace Shrine Sasse, the University of Buea and the Bongo Square. Accompanied by their teachers and the South West Regional Delegate of Tourism and Leisure, Elangwe Peter Pel and his collaborators; they took the time off to explain to the pupils the significance of the sites visited.

The intention of the leisure trip as elucidated by the officials from the Delegation, is to move the kids outside classroom work and let them appreciate nature and also get in touch with the realities around them.

“They will get to discover what they have around them in terms of monuments, colonial relics, sceneries, vegetation so that at their tender age, they will be able to know the vitality of the environment to them. At the same time they are playing and making new friends with pupils from different schools,” Delegate Elangwe Peter Pel said.

A striking moment during the visit was when the kids visited Our Lady of Grace Shrine in Sasse. There, one of the catholic faithfuls, Atabong Paul, told the pupils that the shrine is a holistic ground and it is highly visited by Christians of all faiths.

At the end of the tour, six-year-old Paula Jasmine, a pupil from LadyBird Nursery and primary School Clerk Quarters was visibly satisfied. The kids, selected from their various schools based on academic excellence, went home with gifts.