Cameroon tackles illiteracy among blind population

There are 5 million illiterate people in Cameroon, according to Minister of Youth Affairs Adoum Garoua, who spoke June 27 during the official launching of the second phase of a literacy program for the blind in the Ekie neighborhood in Yaounde. The ceremony also marked the end of the seminar workshop for blind people in which some 30 participants (20 instructors and 10 sensitization agents) took part. The aim of the program is to reduce illiteracy among blind persons in Cameroon and make them independent. Of 600,000 registered blind people in Cameroon, only 1,000 can read or write, said Coco Bertin, president of the Club for Rehabilitated Blind Youths in Cameroon. Read the article at allAfrica.com.