NGO embarks on stamping out poverty for natural resources conservation

By NDIMUH B. SHANCHO A Buea-based Cameroonian non-profit organization known as Ecological Balance, has empowered some 36 youths and rural women within the Buea Municipality to combat poverty and reduce dependence on natural resources. The youths and women, predominantly from the Apostolic Church of Cameroon Bomaka, for four days (August 14-17, 2019) received training on graphics design and T-shirts production and the transformation of agricultural products like cassava into cassava flower or powder & biogas; Cocoa into chocolate, mambo and ovaltine, plantain & potatoes into flower, flowers into spaghetti and others.They were also schooled on the production of mayonnaise, soap,…