Francis Tim Mbom
4 July 2008
Some students from the Catholic University of Dayton, Ohio, USA, and others from the University of Dschang recently visited the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, in Limbe.
On hand to welcome the students was CDC Communication Manager, Charles Endeley, and other staffers who showed the visitors around the CDC Bota head office and told them the history of the corporation, its economy and management, etc.
Robert Elisa, a staff, then took the visitors on a tour of one of the corporation's estates in Idenau, which harbours one of two CDC oil mills.He also briefed them on the on-going multi-billion oil palm and rubber projects aimed at expanding the productive capacity of the corporation in the Boa Plains and Matouke Rubber Estate.
Among other things, the students sought to know how the corporation operates, its products, government's subvention and the privatisation of one of its products.
After the head office, the students also visited the Mondoni Oil Mill and other CDC farms in the Tiko area.
On the purpose of their visit, one of the students from Dayton University, Danny Demko, said they were trying to see what makes Cameroon go as a whole."We are just trying to learn about the people, their culture and just about a different way of life from the western world," Demko said.
Demko equally said before their stopover at CDC, they had already spent four days in the country.He said they intend to stay in Cameroon for a month and hope to visit other towns especially Kumba.
The University of Dayton is one of the ten largest private institutions in the US and was founded as far back as 1850.Meanwhile, CDC is 61 years old.
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