By WALTER WILSON NANA
Some ten and brilliant female students from the Bakundu clan across the Southwest Region have received scholarships and didactic materials from the Bakundu Benevolent Women Association. The financial and material assistance are geared towards supporting the beneficiary students as they warm up for the new school year 2019/2020.
Powered by the Chair of the Benevolent Women, who are of Bakundu origin, Mrs Bertha Ndoh Bakata, Special Adviser at the Prime Minister’s Office and Board Chair of SONARA, the women dished out money and school materials to some ten girls, who performed exceptionally well at the 2019 GCE Ordinary and Advanced Levels.
in a souvenir pic with the deserving students
Addressing the beneficiaries, their family members and guardians at the ceremony that took place recently in the conference room of the Southwest Regional Delegation of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, Mrs Bertha Ndoh Bakata indicated that when you educate the girl child, you educate the nation, noting that they are empowering the girl child of today so that they will also educate and empower others tomorrow.
She saw the gesture as the beginning of greater things to come, while inviting the beneficiaries to make themselves proud, their parents and the Bakundu clan in general. “It is a scholarship to make the girls go forward and pursue university education, which is important today,” she mentioned.
Some of the schools the beneficiary students are drawn from across the Southwest Region include; Bilingual Grammar School, BGS, Molyko, Buea, Government High School Motombolombo, Tiko and Government High School Kake-Bongwana.
Present at the ceremony to prop the Bakundu Benevolent Women Association were; the Member of the National Assembly for Meme West 1 Constituency, Hon Martin Atinda, the new Southwest Regional Delegate of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, Mrs Beryl Itoh Panje and the Southwest Regional Delegate of Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Handicrafts, Madam Irine Lobe.