Wilfred Enow Agbor
Yaounde, Cameroon
The Director General for National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development Mr Ayuketah Oswarld Tambe officially announces the 2013 training session for volunteers. The creation of this agency by President Paul Biya was aimed at training youths and providing subvention to make them self sufficient.
Over 6000 youths were trained in 2012 and the sum of 770,000,000 CFA Francs was allocated by the government to assist youths in establishing small businesses and agricultural projects.
Mr. Ayuketah, in a press conference organized at his ministry, told the press that as per 2013, the number of volunteers will be reduced to 1,000 participants to function with a budget of 1.4 billion CFA Francs due to lack of enough funds to run the program; for that reason they have decided to look for partners like embassies and non-govermental organization to assist both financially and materially.
Priority will be accorded to Mbororos, Pygmies, street children, and frontier zones like Akwaya and Ekok.
As criteria for selection, a candidate has to be of Cameroonian nationality, age between 18 and 45, volunteer must be ready to work as a group, pregnant girls because of their delicate state are exempted, and finally the volunteer must have a stable career.
A form will be provided by the Civic Service Agency which will carry personal information of volunteers, their level of education, place of residence, domain of competence, person to contact in case of accident.
There will be creation of civic service centres in the less privileged areas like, Fifinda in the South, Banyo in Adamawa, Langui in the North, Djore in the Centre, Bakassi and Akwaya in the South West regions respectively.
