Cameroon: Rural initiative changes lives

  1. Posted on Monday 1 December 2008 - 22:13
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    Dominique Bela, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Douala, Cameroon
    Since 2007, farmers of Edzendouan, a small district located at 40 kilometers from Yaoundé have been benefiting from the rural project aiming at commercializing agricultural products.
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    Initiated by as Inades Formation Cameroon, the project stresses socio-economic self reliance of the rural population. To achieve this, populations are not only assisted in channelling their crops to the market but also they are trained on conservation techniques.

    According to Mr Mama Moumbagna, the Director of Inades, the project particularly targets women and ethnic minorities. On the field, the results are good. Mrs Anastasie Mebea, a farmer, says that this project has changed her life.

    “I can build my house now, I thank Inades. My hope is that the project becomes permanent”

    Inades Formation has defined four orientations for the next three years: Empowering the rural society, the integration of the socio-economic development of minorities, the participation in the process of decentralization and local development, and the improvement of the agricultural production channel.

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