Promoting national conscience

NCSAPD to train 15.000 youths in 2015
The trainees will comprise 9000 volunteers and 600 conscripts selected from the 10 regions of the country
By Mercy Neba in Yaounde

Head quarters of NCSAPD

The Director General of the National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development, Mr. Taossi, on 19 June 2015 launched an operation for the selection of 9000 volunteers and 6000 conscripts to be trained by the agency in 2015. The official launching took the form of a press conference organized at the headquarters of the NCSAPD at Essos, Yaounde.
    Addressing curious journalists present, Mr. Taossi said the volunteers and conscripts would be selected from all the ten regions of the country. They will be given training in such aspects as civic education, physical education, sports, solidarity, patriotism, peace, national integration, civil protection and security, environmental protection, agriculture, animal rearing and fish farming etc.
    The 9000 volunteers will be selected from among young Cameroonians or association of young Cameroonians who belong to group or associations involved in such activity as agro-ecology and fish farming. Qualified candidates must be of good health and not doing any paid job at the time of selection.
    Candidates are expected to apply at the nearest divisional delegation of youth affairs and civic education or at the regional antenna of NCSAPD.

    As for the 6000 conscripts, their selection started way back in April 2015 in the ten regions. They comprise mostly of school going children between the ages of 17 and 21 years. Some of the children are also picked from the streets.
    Unlike for the volunteers, the conscripts will be lodged at the training sites and would be taken care of throughout the two months of their training course.
    It should be recalled that the NCSAPD in 2014 trained 7000 volunteers and 4000 conscripts. The volunteers were trained in such fields as pastoral agriculture and fisheries.
    At the end of the six months training volunteers are awarded certificates. They are also provided financial support from government to enable them start up their chosen activities.
    The DG of NCSAPD explained that apart from the increase in the number of trainees from 11.000 in 2014 to 15000 in 2015, all other parameters in 2014 would be maintained in 2015.
    Mr. Taossi used the occasion of the press conference to thank administrative, traditional, religious and municipal authorities for their multi-form collaboration with the agency.
    He also thanked partner administrations – MINFI, MINADER, MINEPIA, MINEPAT, MINEFOP, MINESEC, MINDEF, MINFOF, MINSANTE, IRAD and the police for their assistance.