Bamenda (Mezam) Prof. Massimo, Vice President of the international Diabetics Federation and incoming governor of Rotary club District 2090, led a delegation to palaces, churches with a message of hope to children suffering from diabetics. The trip was within the framework of the "Rotary Cameroon child project" whose mission is to improve the health of children with diabetes in Cameroon. It also has to do with providing best practice care from an African perspective for some 120 of the most needy children with diabetes in Cameroon. Dr. Nkwenti Davidson, National President of Cameroon Diabetics association told Cameroon Tribune that the project is a model for Africa and that it will help 120 children in six cities involving the Yaounde central hospital, the Douala General and Laquintinie hospitals, Limbe, Bamenda, Bafoussam and Garoua Provincial hospitals.

Briefing the press, Rotarian, Sama Francis who doubles as the Bamenda Assistant District governor said in each centre, children in great need who attend clinics regularly will be chosen. The hospital's social services and the clinic doctors will be involved in the choice and all children enrolled will be less than 15 years.

The three-year project is already off the ground and beneficiaries will be given adequate insulin, syringes and needles, glucometer, blood glucose strips, free clinic visits and the total cost per child for the first year is E 330 and then for years two and three, E 285 per year. Prof. Massimo also says the strategic alliance that brings hope to Cameroon's Children is a partnership involving Cameroon's Ministry of Public Health, the Rotary Foundation, the Italian R.I Districts, Rotary Clubs in Perugia, Temi, Pesaro, Rotary clubs in Cameroon, U.S.A, the International Diabetes Foundation and other donors. In all; Mathias Ofon, Secretary General of the Bamenda Rotary Club sounds off that the project takes off in Cameroon ahead of the 2007 International Diabetics Day. It is also time to jump for joy with the project at a time when Nkewenti Dauidson says; "it takes an average CFA 70.000 to treat a diabetic child properly a month" . Prof. Massimo also adds that the project is much more ambitious to establish a model under the administrative control of Rotary club whose rules are indeed; rigid.