The National President of the Cameroon Red Cross, Cécile Akame Mfoumou, made the remark as she received New Year wishes from her collaborators on January 31.

The challenges this year at the Cameroon Red Cross (CRC) are enormous, but the National President of the association, Cécile Léonie Akame Mfoumou has taken measures to ensure that the vision of improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable by mobilising the power of humanity is attained.

She spelled out the goals of the association last January 31, 2018 in Yaounde as she received New Year wishes from her collaborators, national and international partners of the Cameroon Red Cross.

After carrying out an audit of the Cameroon Red Cross, the National President says a strategic plan for 2018-2023 has been elaborated. Without a strategic plan, she added, the goals of Cameroon Red Cross cannot be achieved. Plans are also underway for the rehabilitation and equipping of the medical cabinet “Henry Dunant”, the physiotherapy training centres as well as the medical platform of all the Red Cross health centres in all the ten regions of the country.

Focus this year at the Cameroon Red Cross will also be on developing the medical ambulance service of the institution. Cécile Akame Mfoumou underscored that her institution with assistance from the government has as project to construct sites of many divisional committees of the Cameroon Red Cross as well as rehabilitate existing ones. This is to solve the problem of work space that exists in some divisions as well as improve the services of volunteers.

Earlier, the Secretary General of the Cameroon Red Cross, Nicolas Mbako, took to the rostrum to underscore the importance of the event which was not only a tradition in the National Society but special in the sense that it was the first time for the President of the CRC, Cécile Léonie Akame Mfoumou, to preside since her election on August, 21, 2017.