SDO Calls for Fight against Societal Vices

The Senior Divisional Officer presided over the handing of attestations to end of course students.
The Senior Divisional Officer of Wouri, Bernard Okalia Bilai has called on graduates from the Centre of Women Promotion and Family Planning in Akwa, Douala to fight against poverty, prostitution, HIV/AIDS among others. He was speaking while presiding over the handing over of attestations to those who had ended their one year training courses. He told the graduates that this is the time they have to make use of what they have imbibed in the professional programmes in which they have been trained.
In her opening remarks the Coordinator of the Centre Angéle Mbogbe Mogbe said the centre was created in 1969 as a house for women of which today has become a centre which gives professional training to women. They have a mission, she said to give professional education to young girls as well as moral and civic training, health education and reproduction, financing micro-projects, elaboration and project management, among others and their target population is young girls, women and families. As for the different training programmes, she said they have clothing industry, Hotel Management, Hair dressing and Information Technology. She added that they also give training in crafts, fabrication of washing soap, tie and dye, decoration, sewing, fish roasting, among others. All these things she said are done with little means but thanks to the Godmother of the centre who also doubles as assistant mayor of the Douala I council. A part from these training she said the also do counselling to families on family planning.
EFFA TAMBENKONGHO