Curbing Youth Unemployment:

APME Trains Business Students on Job Creation

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaoundé

APME trains over 60 students on how to become job creators

The Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency, APME has in her mission to reduce youth unemployment and promote job creation and self-employment trained some over 60 students of Sup’ptic Business Academy on promotion of entrepreneurship spirit amongst them.

                The training programme which focused on strengthening the entrepreneurial skills of the students was organise within the framework of the 1st edition of the global entrepreneurial week recently organised and celebrated in the country by the Ministry of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicraft in collaboration with APME.

                Dr. Mathias Mondo, an Expert and Technical Adviser at the APME said the training was a move to solve the problem of unemployment which is a major problem in the society today helping the youths to create their own business and to be able to work to get finances for their own projects. The training which spanned between 27-29 November and 2-6 December he added will solve a lot of problems among youths since APME will keep a close watch and follow-up of their business with the use of their experts once it is created to make it run effectively.

                To Abega Moussa, Director of Sup’ptic Business Academy, the training was timely as it focused more on youth and self-employment initiatives. He added that the training will first motivate the youths that participated to embrace the field of entrepreneurship based on the knowledge acquired in the course of the training as aspects like projects and business development models.

                Abega while thanking the General Manager of APME, Jean Marie Louis Badga, for choosing to train his students said the youths can be able to write business plans to implement their companies and create their own companies with what they have gathered in the domain of business creativity, resilience, communication, efficiency, leadership and motivation.

                The ceremony which was presided over by the Minister of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicraft, Achille Bassilekin III, also had presentations from the trainees on projects they intend creating such as electronic taxi payment system, electronic device for detecting and preventing typhoid fever, electronic platform for geo-location and visit of sites and accommodations, smart bracelet for monitoring the menstrual cycle of women with prediction of future phases, rapid biological production system based on the method of plants derived from stem fragments, multimodal web application for birth reporting, plastic waste recycling for the manufacture of ecological building materials and electronic device for tracking and retrieving lost objects.

                Minister Bassilekin III while closing the ceremony thanked the APME DG for the staying focus to their role of promoting small enterprises and encouraging job creation among young people. Expressed satisfaction to the quality of projects presented by the students and urged them to stay focus and ensure all the skills gathered and adequately put to use. Majority of the students expressed satisfaction with knowledge gathered and said  skills gathered permits them create their own businesses, become good leaders, remain optimistic, creative and develop motivations among others.