Chantal Biya’s Cerac Builds New Classrooms in Bafoussam

The Circle of Friends (Cerac), an association founded by First Lady Chantal Biya, has constructed a 10-classroom block at Government Primary School Njeleng V in Bafoussam, West Region, to enhance the quality of education.

Cerac also repaired 29 other classrooms, four offices, and toilets at the primary school, which hosts over 1,500 pupils, including internally displaced children from the Anglophone Regions.

Chantal Biya’s representative, Celestine Ketcha Courtes, Minister of Housing and Urban Development, inaugurated the infrastructure on Friday, October 18.

Minister Ketcha Courtes, however, stated that the gesture aimed to promote inclusive education, the major theme of this year’s national guidance counselling day celebrated on Friday.

Courtes presented several farm inputs to farmers and youth groups in the West Region, aiming to fight against poverty. Among the items were fertilisers, pesticides, spray cans, and wheelbarrows.

She said Chantal Biya is preoccupied with the well-being of children and the youth and fighting against poverty in Cameroon.

The First Lady, who is UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassador, has been out of the country since September 2. She accompanied President Paul Biya to the China-Africa summit in Beijing and both have not been seen since then.

She founded Cerac in 1995, an association credited for several humanitarian outreaches across Cameroon.

These include building schools to ensure the education of young Cameroonians, making donations to hospitals and schools, reaching out to disaster victims, and fighting against HIV/AIDS.

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