South West : Over 250 Women, Youth Receive Free Vocational Training

As well as tailoring and design, computer studies and secretariat duties, project management and entrepreneurship, amongst others. The ultra-modern centre equipped with modern sewing machines, a sophisticated computer laboratory and training materials was recently inaugurated in Bangem, Kupe Muanenguba Division of South West Region by the Director of CCREAD, Dr Ewang Ngide Hilary prior to the celebrations of the International Women’s Day. As a community base organisation, CCREAD also stood by the women in Bangem to ensure a successful celebration of the 37th edition of the International Women’s Day.
“The over 250 women and youths currently receiving free vocational training from the centre in Bangem range from abandoned single mothers, girls who dropped out of school as a result of hardship, women heads of households who have been affected by crisis and have no viable source of income, unemployed youths and widows living under very difficult social and economic conditions,” Dr Ngide told Cameroon Tribune.
The training, he stated, has received the technical and administrative support of the Divisional delegations of Social Affairs, Employment and Vocational Training and that of Women Empowerment and the Family. “As a program opened to all Cameroonians with an established need, there is no form of payment and the organization grants 100 pe...