Education, Health are my priorities in Aduk- Gwain Chrysantus

The Minister of Secondary Education recently honoured Mr. Gwain Chrysantus a son of Aduk village in the Fundong municipality with an award recognising his numerous contributions to enhance the educational needs of Government High School, GHS, Aduk. The event was the inauguration of solar lamps provided to the school by this illustrious son of Aduk worth some 4.5MFCFA last December 17, 2014.

North West Regional delegate of Secondary education Sunjo George who was around to inaugurate the project on behalf of the Minister showered praises on the benefactor whom he qualified as a philanthropist. In a community with no electricity, the provision of the solar lamps to this High school to ease work in the computer and science laboratories and more so to assist teachers and students in their tasks could only be a welcomed initiative.

As a matter of fact, the provision of solar lamps to GHS Aduk was not the first project Mr. Gwain Chrysantus was realising in the institution. In 2008, he funded the construction of three classrooms to the tune of 27MFCFA, built low cost apartments in 2010 that encouraged teachers to take up residence at Aduk, provided 20 bags of cement to plaster the administrative block of the school, funded the construction of two toilet blocks for teachers and students in 2011, provided tiles and an electronic balance to the science laboratory worth 336.000FCFA.

This private- public sector partnership was hailed in very high esteem by the Minister’s representative who encouraged others to emulate the example towards fostering the education of young Cameroonians. The regional delegate was also appreciative of the contributions of partners like the Fundong council, Aduk Rural Development Association, ADARD, PTAs and school management board. He appealed to all stakeholders, administrators, parents and students in Boyo to take advantage and exploit to its fullest, the platform of the partnership for development created by our legislators and the state.

Sunjo George while appreciating teachers for their professionalism and dedication to the noble profession of teaching, challenged them to becommitted to the daunting and painstaking task of nation building through the development of quality human resource and inspiring young Cameroonians with the culture and values of honesty, hard work, assiduity, regularity and the spirit of intellectual inquiry and invention. He has warned teachers who upon posting, immediately start looking for transfer, saying government will not hit to their leisurely desires but rather, they will have to take from the civil service stringency.

The principal of the beneficiary institution, Mr Ayuk Peter Manyu baptised the inauguration of the solar panels, GHS Aduk Emergence in 2014. The 8 years institution created in August 2006 and raised to a high school in 2009 today has an enrolment of 403 students with outstanding performances in public examination. He however appealed to the minister’s representative to look into the staffing situation of the school with more teachers needed in many departments. His eight year stay at the helm of GHS Aduk and his relentless services to the school and community has earned Mr Ayuk Peter the traditional tittle “Awungu II”

Other speakers at event included the Divisional Delegates of Secondary education for Boyo and Menchum Chumbom Elisabeth Lem and Mr. Ben Yong J, the representatives of the mayor Fundong council and MP Boyo who all spoke with one voice to support the good initiative, calling on the school administration, parents andstudents to ensure sustainability of the various projects realised in the school.

Aduk Integrated Health Centre benefit equipment

“Before a child goes to school, he/she must be healthy and I could not only think about the school and forget the health centre” This were the words of Mr Gwain Chrysantus who besides donating equipment and funding constructions of classrooms at GHS Aduk has donated equipment to Aduk Integrated Health Centre to the tune of 1.5FCFA. The equipment comprised of 20 matresses, 20 bed sheets, 25 blankets, ten buckets, a carton of soap and vasline. He had also allocated money for drugs to be purchased for the less privileged patients and assisted in the payment of staff at the health centre.

The donor encouraged more especially pregnant women and student to use the services of the health centre as it is up to date to take care of their health needs.

According to the chief of the health centre Yoah Ernest Ju, the AIHC is serving a population of 7706 inhabitants representing 50.4% of the health area’s total population most of whom are students.

Dr Shu Walters District Medical Officer for the Fundong health district said these actions by Mr Gwain Chrysantus were efforts towards contributing to the realisation of the millennium development goals and cautioned the population to make good use of the equipment and services of the centre. The Abassakom Area Development Union, ABADU, Bamenda branch supported the gesture of the benefactor with a drum to be used for water storage in the hospital.

 Aduk Integrated Health Centre has a bed capacity of 25 but only 20 are fully functional at moment.