Cameroon: 600 Vulnerable Children Receive Free Vaccination

22 December 2008

Some 600 exposed children in Yaoundé December 15-16 were beneficiaries of free typhoid and meningitis vaccines from a Yaounde based humanitarian foundation christened Shemka Foundation.

The children, who were mostly AIDS orphans, refugees, abandoned, underprivileged and disabled, were aged between two and 12.They were selected from some 20 orphanages, centres taking care of the underprivileged and children born to inmates in Mbalmayo, Soa, Mfou and Yaounde.

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