The mayor of the municipality has created a committee which carries out a door-to- door campaign to educate the population on the deadly pandemic.
This is the message, the Mayor of Yaounde I, Jean Marie Abouna and his team, is telling inhabitants of his municipality in a door-to-door campaign to educate and empower the population in a bid to prevent the Coronavirus.
From the Emana neighbourhood to Etoudi, Mballa I, II, III, going to Bastos, Etoa-Meki, Nkol-Eton, Ntougou and Nyom neighbourhoods in the Yaounde I Municipality, Jean Marie Abouna and his team have met inhabitants at their homes with the true gospel against Covid-19.
During the door-to-door cam- paigns, the Chief of Service of the Environment and Hygiene at the Yaounde I Council, André Marce Ateba un- derscores that they teach the population in a manner to ensure that the hygienic measures prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Head of State become a part and parcel of each inhabitant in the municipality.
During such campaigns, André Marce Ateba says they work with traditional rulers, associations within different neighbourhoods and local development communities, to distribute face masks, wash- hand buckets placed in public places, soaps and hand sanitizers to the population.