Nkeze Nbonwoh
28 February 2008
- The gender-minded Cameroon Association of University Women (CAMAUW), has presented an award of excellence to two brilliant female graduates of the University of Buea.
Named after CAMAUW's Pioneer President, Grace Ngemukong Tima, Ms. Jane-Francis Yensii (Second Class Upper Honour in Nursing) and Ms. Irene Ane Anyangwe (PhD in Microbiology) were so prized for passing out of University successfully and serving as models for other women. To offer the prestigious award, the CAMAUW chose the CAMAUW Cultural Centre - Buea, recently where their members from across the country assembled to grace the occasion. Dr. Beatrice Ndoping, President of CAMAUW, spoke lengthily to encourage females to exploit their potentials to the fullest without any complexes. She said CAMAUW was the Cameroon branch of an International Federation of University Women (IFUW) with 180.000 female graduate-members from 72 countries.
The CAMAUW today acts under the spur of their 2007 Manchester IFUW theme adopted as "Women: Agents for change building sustainable futures". Using the tools of seminars, workshops, conference research and training programmes, CAMAUW has championed the sensitization and support of over 200 girls in four Mbororo communities in the North West province. Some of them received scholarship to cover five years in Secondary School or Vocational Training and 80 received adult literacy classes. They also supplied books, uniforms, school bags, offered remedial classes, two classrooms and other welfare assistance. The CAMAUW, like its Geneva based international umbrella Federation (IFUW), seeks to improve the status of women and girls, encourage life long education and enable graduate women to use their expertise to effect change wherever they are. Their national President, Dr. Beatrice Ndoping, remarked in Buea that the laureates had not ridden easily through "particularly in our Cameroon female unfriendly curriculum, environmental financial and socio-cultural set up". Buea's Assistant Divisional Officer, Mobega Mobega Thierry witnessed the occasion.
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