RTC Cameroon Churns out Computer Training graduates in Bui

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

The Rural Transformation Centre RTC Cameroon has churned out the second batch of graduates of its Computer Training Programme. This took place on Saturday April 14, 2018 at a graduation ceremony that saw some 11 young Cameroonians receiving diplomas from the Computer Training Department of RTC Cameroon at Fakuy in the Jakiri Municipality in Bui Division. The Public Relations Officer for RTC Cameroon, Yenika Collins said the main aim of the centre was to improve upon the quality of the lives of Cameroonians in rural areas.  

Yenika Collins Litiga

Yenika Collins intimated that the centre is into Sustainable Agriculture where training is carried out in Organic Farming and Ecological Agriculture, Bee Farming, Natural Medicine where people are taught how to use natural medicinal herbs for treatment of Common Tropical Ailments, Environmental Protection; a domain in which close to thirty thousand trees have been planted. Some of these trees he said were planted in the centre while some are distributed in the communities around for planting.

The Public Relations Officer further said “We are also involved in Computer Training because we saw that the Government has been encouraging Computer Training in most schools around the country but this is mostly focused in towns and the students in rural areas seem to have been forgotten. This may be due to the fact that there are no computers and electricity in the rural areas. We as such took it upon ourselves to start Computer Training Programmes. Today we are graduating our second batch of students after completing a nine month training programme and we have 11 graduating students.”

Graduates, Founder and RTC stakeholders in Bui Division

The other domains he explained are followed up through outreach programmes in the rural communities. He explained that at the moment they were doing training in Ecological Agriculture. Through outreach programmes, they move out to rural communities and train selected groups of people in specific domains. After training, these individuals get back to their communities and impart the knowledge acquired through RTC training. “What makes our training programmes unique is that we encourage our people to rely as much as possible on local materials. Our outreach programmes have touched Mbiame where we just rounded up, Kai, Djottin and in the weeks ahead we will be going down to Rontong and the whole of Jakiri Sub Division.”

  Litiga Boniface, Coordinator and Founder of the Rural Transformation Centre, Cameroon said “we are just trying to help to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor and this is because our rural communities are left behind especially the young people. Our initiative provides a unique opportunity for our rural youths to have an on the spot computer training. It is better here in the rural areas as trainees go on for nine months without electricity cuts because we have a huge solar system. I want to call on children in the surrounding villages to take advantage of this programme and get trained.”

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