Dr Abwe Diabe Ephraim
Mr and Mrs Abwe Diabe bringing some added value to children education in Kupe Munenguba
The Summa Cum Laude( Sango Madiba) Information and Learning Resource Centre in Ekol-Muebah-Nninong on 17 June, 2025 joined the world to celebrate the International Day of the African Child. The event attended by nursery and primary schools in Nninong, education and school authorities in KupeMuanenguba was characterzed by multiple avtivities. In a Whatsapp interview Eco OUTLOOK caught up with the initiator of the project, Dr Abwe Diabe Ephriam for an interview.
EXCERPTS;
- Can we know what this ceremony is all about?
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk about the event celebrating the International Day of the African Child. We are commemorating this day in Nninong with the basic education community . The commemorative activities will begins a procession march of the different nursery and primary schools to the center, followed by an ecumenical church service.
Other highlights of the day include quizzes, graduation in nursery schools, dancing and prize awards to winners of month long intra-schools varied competition. For one full month there have been intra-school competitions where the schools select the best and they come to summa cum center for finals. Four main thematic areas were selected for competition, public speaking and communication, arts and culture, quantitative reasoning or math and general knowledge. A lot of prizes are up for grabs in these competitions
This is a learning and capacity building centre( Summa Cum Laude(Sango Madiba) Information and Learning Resource Centre in Ekol-Muebah-Nninong.
It is all about educating the community, promoting innovation, promoting research but even more important promoting community transformation
- The Center seem to attach a lot of importance to children education
Yes Center is born to promote and strengthen the quality of education children receive, especially in withdrawn areas like ours in KupeMuanenguba where children are almost cut off from scientific innovations , information technology and so on.
So we try to ensure that the children in those local rural areas enjoy the same amenities as their peers in the urban areas. This why the Ephriam-Abwe Diabe Platform of Excellence working here with the Summa Cum Laude(Sango Madiba) Information and Learning Resource Centre, to be able to boost learning and teaching in rural communities. We are not only present in the drive in KupeMuanenguba, we are alresent in the suburbs of Yaounde, Doaual and Bafoussam. But we also reachout in Bamenda with plans to stretch to the Northern part of the country.
3) Why the Choice of locating this center in Mueba instead of Bangem the divisional headquarters
I am a communitee volunteer for my community in KupeMuanenguba, Douala, Yaounde and my family, the Ndameton family is invoved in community development activities and youth empowerment in other locations. So its but normal that we also come back home so our people can have firsthand information on development related issues.
4)Is the center doing these benevolent activities alone or working with other partners
There are about 30 scholarships opened now for children looking for admission into GSS Mueba Nninong. But the scholarships are opened to children all over Cameroon. We are supposed to have the first written part of exams for the scholarship sometime on the 5th of July and oral part schedule for July 8. The scholarships will be covering registration, tuition, uniforms and all schooling materials for the 30 children who will be retained. This will be revolving, covering a period of five years , that is covering the entire secondary school life of the beneficiaries, as long as they are able to maintain a cumulative average of 12.5 on 20.
5) Any word for parents and children in Nninong and KupeMuanenguba generally concerning education?
Education is the key in life, very important in shaping your future. Let me say that the kind of informal education that you receive at the base at home work in tandem with the quality of education that you receive from primary, secondary and onwards. So it’s very important to take care of the kind of education we provide to our children. At the Ephriam-Abwe Diabe Platform of Excellence, we make sure we provide capacity enhancement even to the care givers, teaching and administrative staff to ensure quality. We also make sure we provide learning equipment to the basic education sector especially. If some of us were able to make a change in our lives, that of our families and the communities we live in, its thanks to the education we received. The various breaks we had in life is not a matter of hard work, it is the Grace of God in most cases and when you are Bless it’s very important to give back and share with your community.
The Benevolent activity is covered by the Ephriam-Abwe Diabe Platform of Excellence, sometimes accompanied by a few friends and well-wishers. This time around we are running a computer literacy program in all primary and nursery schools in Nninon. We are rolling it out first in Nninong, Bangem, then we can extend to other areas as long as we have the resources.
On the computer literacy program we working with the Nninong Cultural and Development Assocition Chapter in Washington DC. They provided us with six computers. That is the only support we got for this program and the rest if coming from the Ephriam-Abwe Diabe Platform of Excellence.
6) Any prospects of adding more equipment in the future, like museum, amusement park for children?
Yes, that is already factored in the three year agenda of the Centre. I was just talking with the traditional head of the Nninong clan who is also encouraging the inclusion of a Museum. If you look at the corner you will see aspects of traditional artifacts already displayed like the talking drum and others. So that is to tell you we have this in our agenda. We have enough space behind the main hall where a Park will be created for amusement and readers can find comfort doing so under trees. So people can work under very natural settings
7) Any advise to the people of Muebah on how best to use the Center?
The entire community of Nninong community have been duly sensitized on the importance of the Centre. In the run up to the creation of this Center enough sensitization was done. I can assure you that the people of Muebah and the Nninong clan are very welcoming to tourists and they are very happy with the coming of the centre.
Nursery and Primary school children in Nninong, learning and dancing in celebration of the day of the African child, at the state of the art Summa Cum Laude(Sango Madiba) Information and Learning Resource Centre in Ekol-Muebah-Nninong.
