2006 Archives
Ambassador Marquardt visits some projects in the Far North of Cameroon and plants trees to commemorate the Earth Day
Food for Progress Micro Credit Project in Mokolo |
The Food for Progress Micro Credit Project in Mokolo, which the Ambassador visited on April 21, 2006, is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food for Progress. It has given many communities an opportunity to develop cottage industries. The Crédit du Sahel micro-credit director gathered proud villagers to offer them the opportunity to meet with Ambassador R. Niels Marquardt and directly associate their respective success stories with the U.S. government backing that made their free-enterprise endeavors possible. Local officials and high-profile members of the community were on hand to reiterate their thanks and detail hard statistics about the many lives that Crédit du Sahel and the U.S. government touched.
The visit was a very colorful event which was covered by the government television station, one of three existing independent TV stations, and private regional print media. A personal visit by the Ambassador reinforced the U.S. concern for improving the lives of those in the agricultural sector and, in particular, in the Far North, which registers the highest level of poverty in the country.