Harnessing the potentials and power of the Cameroonian community in Canada
I write to congratulate you on the steady progress of your magazine, “Mount Cameroon” which is fast establishing itself as a useful tool for mobilizing and informing Cameroonians here in Canada.
The High Commission of Cameroon will continue to work closely with you and with all Cameroonians to promote the interests and welfare of our compatriots living and working as well as studying here in Canada.
All across Canada, Cameroonians are organizing themselves into location-based associations and/or according to Cameroon-based regional or ethnic associations. This, indeed, is a reflection of the growing strength and diversity of the Cameroonian Community in Canada, and we should all be proud of this.
Beyond the increasing numerical strength of Cameroonians in Canada, many, if not most of our compatriots here, as elsewhere abroad, are highly educated and skilled professionals, working in both the public and private sectors of Canada.
Having spoken with many of our compatriots, I am truly heartened and encouraged by their patriotic desire to contribute actively and positively to the development of Cameroon, our beautiful fatherland.
This calls for new strategies towards a more fruitful engagement with the Cameroonian Community here in Canada; and I have been reflecting on how best we can achieve this objective.
I would like to have the views of Cameroonians on this, and on the proposal that the Cameroonian community in Canada considers pulling together into socio-professional associations. It seems to me that this can be done through various associations of say, Cameroonian medical professionals, engineers, business executives, university professors and researchers, civil servants, students etc.
Such an approach will not only help the High Commission to work better with you and for you, it will also enable our compatriots in Canada to relate more productively among themselves, and with similar Canadian and Cameroonian associations and work towards greater integration here in Canada, and eventual reintegration back in Cameroon.
Once again, do please accept and share with all, my warm wishes for success and accomplishment in your noble endeavours.
Yours sincerely,
Anu’a-Gheyle Solomon Azoh-Mbi
