60 Doctorate students get research grants

Sixty Doctorate students in Cameroon have benefitted the sum of FCFA 100,000 and a realm of papers each, as research grants.

The grants were handed over to them during a ceremony last weekend in Pete Bandjoun, presided at by the SDO for Koung-khi, Antoinette ZongoNyambone. TheRector of the University of Dschang, Pr. AnacletFomete, represented the Minister of Higher Education.

The gesture, which was in its fourth edition, was from an elite of Koung-khi division, Hon. Albert Kouinche.

Fifty-seven of the beneficiaries are from the West Region and one each from the Northwest, Centre and East Regions.

According to Hon. Kouinche, the gesture, which has already been extended to some 77 students in the last three editions, is intended to promote the education of young Cameroonians.

He said there were plans to, in the next 10 years, extend the activities on a path of exponential growth with everyone involved in the hope of progressively transforming into a foundation.

He thanked sympathisers of the project for their various contributions and expressed the wish to see other people of good will join the initiative so as to reach out to more Doctorate students in the country.

The SDO, Zongo, and the Rector, Pr. Fomete, in their speeches, appreciated the gesture while calling on the beneficiaries to judiciously use the money.

The beneficiaries expressed gratitude to their benefactor, in separate interviews, while urging him to continue helping young Cameroonians in their educational pursuits. Romaric Teguo, from the Northwest and a student in the University of Yaounde I, said he would make good use of the money.