Professional training

 Zachary Perevet inspecting work on construction site

Limbe’s Vocational Training Centre operational in 2015
The establishment that will train students in hotel management, tourism, air conditioning and metal fabrication will go operational next academic year, according to the Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, Zachary Perevet, who visited the construction site at Bonadikombo, Limbe on Thursday May 8, 2014.
By Sarah Nkongho Ojong in Limbe 
With an execution rate of 60%, the 652 square meters site is expected to be complete by August 2014. Official sources however say that all works ought to be finished by October, when the laboratory equipment are expected to be installed. The training of teachers and administrators will also kick off earlier in September.
    The minister assured that operating and maintaining the equipment would not be a problem as Cameroonians would be sent to Korea from where the equipment were imported, for training on operation and maintenance
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    Zachrie Perevet affirmed that the first batch of students would begin school by the 2015 academic.
    On his part, the project coordinator from the Economic Development Co-operation Fund, EDEF, Ngathe  Kon Phillippe revealed that the first batch of students will comprise a total of 600 trainees; 300 will attend classes during the day and 300 in the evenings.
    Besides hotel management, tourism, metal fabrication and air conditioning, other specializations at the center will include wood work, electricity and refrigeration. Admission will be open for Cameroonians of age between 17 and 18 years with a certificate in the GCE ordinary level examination.
    3 hectares of land has also been allocated for a football pitch, a gymnasium and a hotel for practical work. 
    It is worthy to note that most of the workers in the construction project are indigenes from the Bonadikombo area.
    It is expected that an increase in the number of vocational training centers (others are being set up in Douala and Sangmelima) will help to curb the acute unemployment problem in Cameroon.