Buea WCPDM Donates Writing Materials to 300 Pupils

By Christopher Ambe Shu

As schools prepare to resume on September 8, the Women’s wing of the ruling Cameroon’s People Democratic Movement, CPDM, in Buea has donated exercise books, and pens and rulers to 300 deserving school children in Buea subdivision.

The donation ceremony which took place on 28 August 2008 at Buea Youth Empowerment Centre was presided over by Hannah Etonde Mbua(Pictured talking to Reporters) president of Buea WCPDM and witnessed by a cross section of the local public.

The gesture has been commended by many observers, conscious that due to poverty many parents find it very difficult to supply their children all basic school needs.
The writing materials included 3800 exercise books, 3000 pens, 300 pencils and 300 rulers .Of the 300 beneficiaries, 10 each came from the 30 subsections that make up the Buea WCPDM Constituency.

“This gesture is one of the priority projects that members of the WCPDM Fako III (Buea) section have on their five-year plan of action. It is intended to assist people of goodwill who are taking care of the school needs of orphans and other needy children”,Etonde Mbua said. “By this we intend to support these persons in ensuring that such children also attend school.

She noted that the gesture was in consonance with the policy of free education for all which the government has put in place.
“A needy child who is enrolled in school can through this gesture do all nine months without buying an exercise book or pen,”Etonde Mbua, who is also the principal of a Government High School, Bokwango-Buea remarked

The August 28 donation was the second by the Buea WCPDM section. The first time was in 2007 and more than 1500 children benefited from the gesture
Etonde Mbua praised those who assisted the WCPM to buy the writing materials.

She particularly appealed to the recipients “to consider the donation a challenge and work very hard and your efforts shall be crowned with success”
(Picture:Pupils and Buea WCPDM women pose for the Camera)

She further told them, “remember that we have not given you these items because we have too much but because we are mothers and want our children to satr and end the current school year happily”
The beneficiaries were very thankful. “I am very happy that I already have all my exercise books,” said one kid with a broad smile.