Walter Wilson Nana
12 May 2008
Government Technical High School, GTHS, Ombe is now hooked-up to the exciting world of Information and Communication Technology, ICT.
This gesture came to fruition Friday, May 9, at the campus of GTHS Ombe, thanks to a partnership between ADCOME, an ICT-oriented NGO and PECTEN-Cameroon, the financiers of the project.
President General Manager, PGM, of PECTEN-Cameroon, Vince Holtam, said his company is committed to promote their policy of social corporate responsibility. "We've offered GTHS Ombe the appropriate computer and internet access. This is a big window on the worldwide technology to the students and staff of GTHS Ombe," Holtam noted.
The PECTEN Executive said ADCOME has proven its expertise in the school connectivity programmes, "that's why PECTEN is interested in the development of the Cameroonian youth," he added.
Holtam advised the students, management of GTHS Ombe to ensure that the project is put into good use for it to be sustainable.Roland Kwemain, Executive Director of ADCOME, revealed that GTHS Ombe is the 36th stop-over of the multimedia centres his institution has planted in 8 of Cameroon's 10 provinces.
Hence, 76,000 students are been served with the ICT, 407 teachers and 51 job opportunities created for some young Cameroonians.Kwemain said the development of the Cameroonian youth in the educational and IT departments are the preoccupation of ADCOME.
A delighted William Epie Mukete, Principal, GTHS Ombe saw the availability of the multimedia centre as being timely to his school.He made a request to his students, staff, who are the immediate beneficiaries of the PECTEN/ADCOME gesture to use and keep them jealously.
He did not hesitate to say thank you to their benefactors for making sure the exciting world of ICT comes into their classrooms.Representative of the Southwest Provincial Governor, Edwin Ngwana, described GTHS Ombe as the pride of technical education in Cameroon.
"Therefore, the acquisition of a multimedia centre for GTHS Ombe should not only be a booster in their efforts to build a better Cameroonian technical student but that which will be ready to compete with other technical students in other parts of the world," he said.
An official of the Ministry of Secondary Education found in the centre a bank of all sorts of knowledge, for the benefit of the students and staff of GTHS Ombe.
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