After being recognised for campaign against road accidents: Good Citizenship Save Lives founder presents award to Cameroon’s Ambassador to France.

The CISAL boss, Julien Danault Mbounga, who is based in France presented his award to His Excellency Andre Magnus Ekoumou in Paris on Wednesday January 17.

This was on the sideline of the second preparatory meeting of Cameroonian project initiators based in the diaspora, who will be participating in the 2024 edition of International Exhibition for Enterprises, SMEs and Partnerships of Yaounde, PROMOTE.

Danault Mbounga was distinguished during the second edition of Camer Diaspo Awards organised in Yaounde on December 29, 2023, to recognise Cameroonians in the diaspora who been investing back home and carrying out projects to benefit the population.

He was among close to 100 diaspora-based Cameroonians who were laureates at the awards ceremony in Yaounde.

Ambassador Magnus Ekoumou saluted the CISAL boss and his team for the work they have been doing and went on to urge them not to relent in what they have been dong already.

About CISAL & its founder

The non-governmental organisation which specialises in the education and sensitisaiton of the population on best practices to curb road accidents.

It founder said he came up with the initiative, years after he had an accident which almost caused his life.

“I decided several years after to engage in this cause after an accident I suffered in December 2010. This is to ensure that what happened to me and which happens so often should be curbed considerably,” Danault Mbounga told The Guardian Post.

He said he and his friends who put up CISAL have been educating and sensitizing Cameroonian to respect the road code, to be civic, respect traffic lights, say no to overload, respect speed limits and also have the necessary documents, including visit technique and insurance.

“It actually an advocacy that we are doing with our volunteers each day on the highway to tell Cameroonians to respect the Highway Code and respect other users so that everyone feels secured,” he added.

The 41-year-old native of Bafang in Upper Nkam Division of the West Region who studied in Cameroon and France said despite not having the financial means, they have remained committed and dedicated to the cause.

He stated that they have been working with the Ministries of Transport, Youth Affairs and Civic Education as well as the Roger Milla Foundation to get the project going.

After he was recognised by Camer Diaspo Awards last month in Yaounde, Mbounga said: “With this award, it is a feeling of accomplished work but also a feeling that we have a responsibility is to do more”

He went on to add that: “This award represent five years of hardwork and sacrifice, without any financial support, we have to work harder to get the results we intend to achieve”.