Story, Louvier Kindo Tombe
The partnership was signed at the head office of the Local Youth Corner Cameroon (LOYOC), between the National President of CAMASEJ, Jude Viban, and the Chief Executive Officer of LOYOC Cameroon, Christian Achaleke.
The agreement, concretized through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) affirms the intention of CAMASEJ and LOYOC to collaborate locally with a focus on achieving sustainable development in Cameroon.
According to the terms, the partnership will last for four years with the possibility of renewal. Under the MoU, both parties shall jointly work towards achieving peace and prosperity in Cameroon through collaborative project design and implementation as well as staff exchanges.
“This is momentous, and we think this is the way to go. It is important to build bridges with partners who share our vision and who can help us to achieve our main objective – improve the professionalism of our members,” Viban Jude, National President of CAMASEJ, said.
The importance of the memo cannot be over emphasized given that it will drive growth for both organizations.
“The media community remains a critical partner in sustaining peace. We feel this MoU is a huge step for the peace-building community in Cameroon,” Achaleke Christian Leke, Executive Director of LOYOC said.
“Working together with CAMASEJ is historic as it will serve as a platform to amplify peace and sustainable development of Cameroon. My team and I will spare no effort to make this transformative.”
The partnership signed will go a long way to promote sustainable development and peace among not only the youths but communities in Cameroon.
LOYOC is a leading youth-led, non-profit, and non-governmental organization created in 2002 to respond to the increase in the socio-political and economic challenges facing young people, such as unemployment, bad governance, gender-based violence, lack of quality education, poverty, corruption, the poor social justice system, and exclusion in the decision-making processes, which serve as push and pull
factors to youth radicalization, involvement in crime, violence, and conflict with the law.
CAMASEJ on her part is a not-for-profit socio-professional association that brings together journalists in Cameroon practising essentially in English.
Created in 1992, the association aims at building a strong network that can help journalists improve on their trade, and protect them whenever and wherever need be.
The association develops and implements projects to better the well-being and productivity of its members and journalists across Cameroon.
These projects are run by a group of independent experts who are recruited with competence in project and financial management, monitoring and evaluation as well as operations.
