To speedup national dev´t: Gov’t adopts Korean Mind Education model in youth training.

Before the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Mounouna Fotso, officially opened the workshop, organisers screened a film that highlighted how in a period of barely seventy years, South Korean emerged from a poverty stricken under developed third world nation into a major global economic super power, whose economy is now ranked seventh in the world in terms of viability.

Minister Mounouna Fotso asserted that what made Korea to take such an impressive forward leap is because the citizens changed the negative mindset that kept them backward and imbibed positive values.

He cited love for work, punctuality, self-discipline, and the palipali spirit which is in consonance with the Cameroon fighting spirit. 

The driving force behind palipali, he said, includes cooperation, solidarity and determination. With such, he said, a people can achieve whatever goal they aim at. “Yes, we can!” Minister Mounouna echoed. 

The member of government said these Korean values will henceforth be incorporated in the upbringing of young Cameroonians as intervention strategies by civil society orgainsations, schools and training institutions in the country are updated.

For the Minister, moral rearmament, codenamed, REAMORCE, has become an imperative in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, and its decentralised agencies.

This, he said is why the positive values of national unity and solidarity; national integration and harmonious living together must continue to be propagated by these establishments.

Not excluded are civil society groups, international partners like the International Youth Fellowship and the Korean International Development Agency in helping to inculcate positive values in Cameroonian youths.

Minister Mounouna regretted that the plague of unpatriotic conduct that Cameroonians used to witness in other countries is gradually engulfing Cameroonians. 

Harping that President Biya aspires to build a Cameroon that is united in its diversity; and there can be no emergence by 2035 as the Head of State aspires, in an environment of insecurity, violence and disrespect for state institutions.

To Minister Mounouna, the enthronement of the Three-year Special Youth Plan, PTS-Jeunes, requires youth to adhere and operate under any civil society organisation so that all will be able to apply for and get funding from the National Youth Observatory, ONJ.

He also urged all youths to adhere to PTS-Jeunes so that they would be able to benefit from training programmes offered by the government and private sector institutions.

He assured that taking part in such training programmes facilitates the social integration of beneficiaries into the mainstream on national economic, social and political life.

The minister said it also helps in transforming them into active producers in the national economy, and heightening youth contribution to inclusive growth of the country.

Minister Mounouna reminded participants that the workshop was to reinforce capacities of trainees to be able to upgrade their know-how in line with emerging realities like the Korean Mind Education model that impacts moral and civic values among public servants, before they can be able to impart same to citizens.

He announced that the ministry will henceforth organise similar train the trainer workshops in all the 58 divisional headquarters of the country. 

He further disclosed that the REAMORCE programme has gone digital with the introduction of elaborate online explanations of the national civic education programme, PNEC; as well as the PRONEC-REAMORCE.

The minister finally urged participants to make sure that at the end of the workshop, they have a better understanding of REAMORCE and are able to better appropriate and transfer knowledge on the PRONEC-REAMORCE. 

He also thanked Korean officials and representatives of the International Youth Forum for their contribution in making the workshop a success.