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Who said Journalists were only out to talk? Who said Journalist were only out to report? Who said Journalists were only out to tell people what to do or what they did? These and more are some of the misconceptions people have in mind about Journalists and so to say, the Observer237 has come to change the narratives. The online portal have been on the advocacy bench for the past years and nothing has been working, reasons why the coach has had to change his attire to join the first eleven on the pitch to make things happen.
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Schooling in Bamenda, chief town of the Northwest region and beyond has not been fruitful at 100% for over four years now and Journalists like everyone else of goodwill have in one way or the other been clamoring for the effective resumption of schools for the 2020/2021 academic year in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon. It is for this reason that the Observer237 blog decided to match words with action by providing school kits to some persons with disabilities and internally displaced kids.
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| School materials provided by the Observer237 |
The event solely funded by the online portal took place at old town Bamenda in the Bamenda II subdivision where over 65 kids benefitted from a huge package of exercise books, pens, pencils and rulers with a special package of brie papers to persons with visual impairment.
A project which became a reality after five days of conception and initiation, announced a bright future to the kids of the region as the driver of the vision Ndi Tsembom Elvis explained that
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| Managing editor Observer237 |
“About two weeks ago we launched a campaign to talk to parents to send their children to school and also to talk to children and teachers to go back to school and we were taken aback in response to a question somebody posed to us in lingua franca < wuna di only talk na talk, wuna go talk so the pikin dem go go back for school? >. So we did today a donation to help some children who will not be able to afford the school needs to go back to school. We are encouraging them to go back to school for as they do, they will be big people in society tomorrow, as they go to school they will be able to take care of their parents and as well their brothers and sisters."It is not common to see such a gesture been orchestrated by a media organ and if such a team can do something of such magnitude then they shall in the days ahead do great and mighty things as per the view point of Ambe Macmillan, president of the Association of English speaking journalists (CAMASEJ NW). Like Oliver Twist will always ask for more, the Regional CAMASEJ boss pleaded on the Observer237 to do more as he challenged the beneficiaries to make use of the materials.
"I am happy I already had to plead with the Observer237 to do more but in the speech that was delivered, it is a promise that the team will make it a yearly rendezvous, which means that in pedagogy if you give books, you should also think about the results of what the books must have done. So i still plead with the Observer237 that as they have already taken the initiative to put smiles on the faces of this children, they should also take the pains to go through their results so that we can appreciate excellence and we see how we can use the media that we already have to market some of the best from the different schools.”
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| President CAMASEJ NW |
Ambe Macmillan added. With a choice of the beneficiaries who happen to be children with special needs and internally displaced children Ambe Macmillan believes and prays that things will get better so dreams of the Observer237 shall be realized to give the community of the North West Region inclusive and quality education as well as the Internally displaced shall be liberated from the IDP tag.
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| Nsah Edwin |
Nsah Edwin the representative of persons with disabilities (PWD’s) said the crises has left the PWDs at double jeopardy since those who have been able to go to school are only those found at the urban centers while those in the villages and semi urban areas have been caught up at the crossroads by poverty taking into account that their writing materials like the brail papers and stylus are very much expensive and not easily available. A situation which has caused many not to benefit from the pride of the classroom. He expressed joy and appreciation of the highest esteem to the observer237 for such an uncommon gesture.
Above all Nsah Edwin like many other beneficiPresident camaset the observer237 has come to stay and shall be the new fountain of hope to PWDs as well as those who are temporally able.
By Ndong Dayan and Tasi Peter
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