First Lady of Cameroon, Mrs Chantal Biya, who is also Founding President of the Circle of Friends of Cameroon (CERAC) over the weekend sent a delegation of her association to Nkongsamba in the Moungo Division of the Littoral Region in a bid to ensure that women and youths in that locality do not miss the train that will take Cameroon to an emerging country.

Representing the First Lady at the event was Mrs Linda Yang, General Coordinator of CERAC who used the occasion not only to hand assorted farm tools and other gifts to women and youths in the division but also to laud Mrs Chantal Biya's crusade launched in 1995 against misery, exclusion, poverty, hatred and illnesses. "This crusade is being inexorably pursued; let us lift up our hats to Mrs Chantal Biya," Linda Yang noted.

In Nkongsamba, CERAC did not just offer gifts to the population but also taught them how to use the gifts. Thus, from May 24 to 26, 2016 at Nkongsamba, CERAC in collaboration with the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, the Association of Female Agricultural Engineers (ACAFIA) and the Archdioceses of Nkongsamba organised a training workshop during which women and youths learned the techniques for manufacturing compost manure, the use of fertilisers and pesticides in gardening and fruits culture as well as in the transformation of cassava to garri, flour and starch.

To make sure that the women and youths effectively put into practice what they had learned, CERAC handed farm tools and agricultural inputs to them such as wheel barrows, poultry products, cassava grinding machines, cutlasses, fertilizers, oil press machines, atomizer moto pomps, rain boots, fertilizers, foodstuffs and sewing machines to some 50 rural women and youths associations in the Melong, Bare Bakem, Nkongsamba 1, 2 and 3, Nlonako, Manjo and Loum Sub divisions that make up the Moungo Division.

On behalf of the beneficiaries, Julienne Mbonke promised the delegation of CERAC that they were going to put into effective use the gifts to improve their output and living standards. "CERAC has saved us from poverty and has taught us how to catch fish.

We are going to fully participate in an emerging Cameroon by 2035, especially as our division is considered the breadbasket of the Littoral Region", she noted. As the population danced in joy, it was also an occasion for other speakers to hail the goodwill gestures of CERAC and its founding president.