At end of Quality Back-to-School campaign: UCB, Kadji Foundation honor deserving science students, teachers.

The company restated the point during the closing ceremony of the 2023 edition of its Quality Back to School campaign, the QBTS. 
The event took place in Yaounde Saturday December 16. 
The bold move was demonstrated through the award of prizes to distinguishing Cameroonian science students and selected teachers.
The leading brand also handed over pieces of land to meritorious customers who secured lands during promotional QTBTS campaign series held by the UCB Group. 
Saturday’s event was jointly organised by UCB as a group and its foundation, the revered Fu’a Toula Defosso Foundation, referenced for its over 20 years of selfless services in boosting humanity’s social wellbeing, notably through supports to education. 
The event was attended by the Technical Adviser No1 at the Ministry of Secondary Education, who represented Secondary Education boss, Prof Nalova Lyonga.
The event also unfolded in the presence of the President of the Kadji Foundation, Lucie Sangam, and the Chief Executive Officer of the UCB group, Austin Ufomba. 
The ceremony was held under the theme “Building tomorrow’s heroes”. 
During the ceremony, awards were handed out to seven teachers who braced the odds to distinguish themselves in challenging or risky areas. 
Two teachers each from the North West and South West Regions, which have been faced with socio-political crisis since 2016, were honoured for their dedication and bravery. Amongst them was Ebot Enow Dorothy, the Vice Principal of Government Bilingual High School Eyumojock in Manyu Division of the South West Region and Shang Mburinyuy Derrick, a History teacher at the Government Secondary School Kuvlu in Bui Division of the North West Region.
Three teachers from the Far North Region, which has been hit by turbulence caused by the Boko Haram insurgency, were also honoured for their bravery and dedication to serving fatherland. 
Amina Hamidou, a Mathematics teacher at the Government Bilingual High School Maroua and Madina Bouba, who teaches History at the Government High School Koza in the Mayo-Tsanaga Division of the Far North Region, both secured awards.
Each of the laureates received a sum of 100, 000 FCFA and modern laptop computers.

Students bag heavy awards 
The major highlight of Saturday’s event was the handing over of prizes to seven meritorious students who came through as the top performing candidates during the 2023 Baccalaureate and GCE Advanced Level examinations. 
Three students, each from the English and the French sub-systems of education, received awards. 
The best female Mathematics candidate for the 2023 Baccalaureate also received an award for her courage and inspiring performance in a field hitherto believed to be a male-dominated area.
Each of the six winners in the overall performance ranking bagged home a sum of 500,000 FCFA, alongside a modern laptop computer. 
Noussi Tirzah Tresor from the Pi and Ju Anglo-Saxon College in Yaounde bagged home the sum of 1 million FCFA and two laptop computers. This was after the youngster harvested two awards after coming through as the best-performing student in Computer Sciences and Mathematics, where two separate awards were put up for grabs.  

She starred in the students’ category alongside the likes of Womogne Payoubiss Kevin of Government Bilingual High School Mbouda-Banock in the Bamboutos Division of the West Region. 
Womogne emerged as the student with the finest performance in Biology, where he scored over 87 marks on a hundred.

Land certificates handed to winners 
Besides the awards to the excelling students and teaching staff, UCB, during the closing ceremony of the campaign, also boosted its strides anchored towards improving the lives of its consumers.
The company handed out lands and land certificates to some five laureates who came out as winners of the institution’s promotional campaign organised years back.
The winners, including two from Douala in the Littoral Region; Leuga Bernard and Djonthe Sorelle, and three others from Bamenda, Yaounde and Mbouda, received pieces of land measuring 250 metres square each. 
The pieces of land, the company stated, were secured by the beneficiaries after the 2018 series of the Quality Back to School Campaign organised by UCB, leading up to the selection of the five winners in 2018. 
The completion of the handing over process delayed due to technical hitches before its full execution years back.

Gestures testimony of UCB’s dedication to humanity
Speaking in separate outings during and after the event, management of the UCB group and the Kadji Foundation said the move to hand over the awards to the educators and students as well as the completion of the process to gift the pieces of land to its loyal consumers is a sign of loyalty to the structure’s values. 
The President of the foundation, Lucie Sangam and UCB Chief Executive Officer, Austin Ufomba, said the gesture falls in line with the group’s drive to contribute to positive change in the Cameroonian society as championed by the company’s late founding, Kadji Defosso Joseph, who died five years ago.
“It is renewed pleasure for us to accompany these children and educators. When the founding father of UCB realised that teachers and education are involved in everything we are doing, he decided that he will touch education. He always loved education,” Lucie Sangam stated.
“He always wanted to support schools. So, it is a pleasure to walk on that same path. We hope that we will be able to continue doing that as he wanted. We pray that God gives us the strength,” the President of the Kadji Foundation added.

Building Cameroon’s future leaders
UCB Chief Executive Officer, Austin Ufomba, made similar remarks to those of the foundation president. 
He said the move serves as a testimony to UCB and its foundation’s dedication to playing a leading role in positioning Cameroon as a country driven towards a brighter future through the building of future leaders. 
“We want to support the youth in areas that are meaningful to them. And the area we have chosen is education. Because the youths are the leaders of tomorrow. They need proper education. They need to be inspired. They need to be supported,” he stated.
Ufomba said the UCB Group and the Kadi Foundation will do everything in its power to ensure it consolidates the drive and continue building the nation relentlessly.
“We will continue to support education. We will continue to make it a priority and we will continue to inspire everyone to continue supporting education because it is not just UCB or Kadji Foundation that is supporting. I mean it’s everyone. But we are leading that top leadership. We are driving that course and also inspiring every other person who will do the same thing,” he said. 
“As long as UCB exists, as long as the Kadji Foundation exists which of course it will because we are building a future company, I’m sure this course will continue for many years to come. Even beyond each and every one of us standing here today. I am very sure that this course will continue,” he detailed.

Gov’t hails UCB Group for exemplary gesture
Speaking during the event, Maham Mahamat, the representative of the Minister of Secondary Education, Prof Nalova Lyonga, described the move by the UCB Group as a bold, exemplary project. 
Maham Mahamat said the awards to the excelling students and the overall partnerships between the Kadji Foundation and the Ministry of Secondary Education has brought a big chance in the Cameroonian education milieu since its launch in 2013. 
“This partnership between the Kadji Foundation and the Ministry of Secondary Education, with the guidance of the Minister of Secondary Education, is a hugely positive addition in the educational milieu. It boosts the quality of education in terms of teaching and learning,” he said.
Maham urged the company to continue partnering with the Ministry of Secondary Education and enjoined secondary school students to fight for the best to ensure they get similar distinctions like their peers of the 2023 laureates. 
“We simply want to say thank you to the Kadji foundation for this wonderful initiative,” the senior Ministry of Secondary Education official stated.

About UCB, Kadji Foundation
Union Camerounaise Brasseries, UCB was created in 1972. 
The group’s foundation, Fu’a Toula Kadji Defosso Foundation was created in 200 the Kadji Foundation was on its path, created in 2003. 
It entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Secondary Education in 2013. 
Since its creation, UCB has maintained a grip as Cameroon’s leading brewery company with all of its brands including the flagship Kadji beer, Pamplemouse UCB and Razzl cherished by consumers across the board. 
Besides leading the race through the production of quality drink including Razzl selected as the official soft drink for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast, the structure has been fully engaged in positive socio-economic and humanitarian causes. 
These works have been championed over the years by the Kadji foundation, revered for its exemplary dedication to nation building notably through supports in the field of education and the provision of daily necessities nationwide.