Fighting Youth Unemployment : MINPMEESA Inaugurates BB Incubator

A centre known as the Boris Bison Incubator (BB Incubator) has been inaugurated by the Minister of Small and Medium Size Enterprises Social Economy and Handicrafts (MINPMEESA) Achille Bassilekin III. The entre that was inaugurated last Friday, April 29 in Bonaberi Douala, has come to fight unemployment as well as help young Cameroonian start-ups achieve their dreams. It will provide an enabling environment for budding entrepreneurs to realise their goals through a great workspace with access to security, internet and technical assistance round the clock. The BB incubator is coming at a time when Cameroon has a great number of young people under the age of 25 who upon graduation join the job market without any prospects of securing a reliable job in the formal economy. Many are plunged into multiple levels of poverty and have no way of using the knowledge they gained from school to improve their lives.
Against this backdrop, while inaugurating the BB Incubator Minister Achille Bassilekin III said the centre is in line with the strategic development of Cameroon. He congratulated the brain behind it while adding that it will go a long way to accelerate growth which will help Cameroon attain its 2035 emergency plan. He promised his total support to the growth of the initiative.
According to Boris Ngala the manager of BB Incubator, the Boris Bison Youth Empowerment Incubator by way of a solution is on a mission to curb poverty in Cameroon. This will be through a rigorous entrepreneurship programme to empower the youth by coaching, training, mentoring and monitoring them to run successful businesses, and lift themselves out of poverty. He added that the programme aims to address the day to day challenges facing new start-ups which include the proper location for ...