By Doh James Sonkey
Under the patronage of the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Mounouna Foutsou, the National Civic Education Programme through Moral, Civic and Entrepreneurial Rearmament, the Global Money Week in Cameroon, the 4th National Competition for the Best Youth Arts and Literature Prize in Economic and Financial Education has been launched. The event was launched recently at the Yaounde Mont Febe Hotel under the theme, “think before you follow wise money tomorrow.”
Officially launching the event, Minister Mounouna Foutsou said the competition to run from March 17, 2025 to November 25, 2025 is opened to all young Cameroonians aged 15 to 35 years, registered under the National Youth Observatory and holder of the Youth Biometric Card.
The Youth Affairs and Civic Education boss said ‘‘more than FCFA 5 million will be shared among the winners of the competition whose overall objective is, to promote responsible, secured and sustainable financial management for at least 10 000 youths, while sensitising them on the risks linked to financial transactions and the practice of easy gains.’’
Minister Mounouna Foutsou saluted the partnership agreements signed between the National Youth Observatory and the two financial partners to accompany youths projects for the financial security of young persons.
The Permanent Secretary of the National Youth Observatory, Armand Pierre Dominique Mveme Atangana did a technical presentation of the competition and explained that ‘‘conventions will effectively enter into the framework of the animation of the 4G geometry ecosystem, which is a device put in place to allow young people to benefit from more services. It is in this case that the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education took the opportunity of the World Money Week to organise since 2002 a national competition for the best youth in economic and financial education. This competition actually allows youths to enter into our mission of civil education and, more precisely, popular education. The idea is to inform young people about all the dangers and opportunities around money. The theme of this year is more original, in so far as it preserves the young people of the financial walls, which are actually a kind of mirages that are presented, which give the impression of being able to earn money, but which are actually rather devices put in place to deceive the vigilance of young people, the vigilance of the population.’’