By NDUMBE BELL JOSEPH GASTON IN DOUALA
Nearly 300 young farmers and families in the village of Nlobesse, South Region in Cameroon are to benefit from a high-flow borehole 30m3 water tower, a water supply system built in collaboration with PAIJA, a support programme for the installation of young farmers.
The handing-over was done in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Gabriel Mbairobe, in order to witness the implementation of a partnership agreement signed in 2014 between the Ministry and MTN.
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Jean Melvin Akam, the Executive Secretary of the MTN Foundation told participants recently that the project is part of their development priorities to encourage young people to return to the soil. The project, he continued, is also aimed at combating unemployment and to improve the standard of youths especially those living in rural areas.
According to the Executive Secretary, “It is within this framework that we signed in 2014 an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the construction of water supply systems in the villages of young Farmers of Nlobesse in the South Region and Wassande in the Adamawa Region”.