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The CNMAG To Get Artisans Out Of The Informal And Precarious

Fidèle AFANOU EDEMBE The crafts sector, which employs 80% of the Gabonese workforce, often in the informal sector, has had a National Chamber of Crafts Trades of Gabon (CNMAG) since June 11, 2019. ), created by Law 22/2018 on the orientation of the national crafts policy in the Gabonese Republic and materialized by the election of forty (45) deputies distributed in the nine provinces of the country. To operate the provincial chambers, a delegation led by Serge Hapita Nkoma, president of CNMAG, and composed of Nzatsi Moussavou, director general of Crafts, Rachel Ebaneth, director general of CNMAG, and Vianey François Nguéma Edou, CNMAG agent, began with Port-Gentil, on April 4, a tour that will bring him closer to the nine provinces. At each stage, efforts will be made to officially install the elected consular officials, train the administrative agents in the use of a digital application for the registration of craftsmen and launch the effective activities of the provincial chambers. The creation of the CNMAG and its subdivisions was born out of the Gabonese authorities' desire to promote and perpetuate the national crafts policy, in order to make it a lever for growth. In short, the players in this sector, alone or in federations, will be registered, registered in the Register of Trades for craftsmen and registered in the Directory of craft businesses for legal persons. Thus structured, artisans will be supervised, trained and will effectively contribute to Gabon's GDP. This will allow many compatriots to get out of precariousness.

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International Children's Book Day

The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, famous for his tales including "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbette" or "The Little Mermaid", was born on April 2, 1805. Since 1967, the date of April 2 is dedicated to the book for children to fight against illiteracy. Sylvie Méviane Fourn, founder of the Imya library in Port-Gentil, from her South African "exile", sent a video where she read a Gabonese tale to the children gathered for the occasion around the artist and writer Nanda La Gaboma . For this, she chose a Gabonese tale with a motivating moral which, in the Omyene language, declares: "oba wi bosso wa lwanizi ndjina ni ndjana", which means "by dint of waiting for the next mango tree, the gorilla remained without eat ". To say "Never put off until later what you can do now". The story is taken from the book Inkogo, Petites fables de la forêt équatoriale, written by two Gabonese authors, Yveline and Florisse MABBYALAS. After also reading some stories to children, Nanda took the opportunity to appeal to writers to also invest in children's literature.

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Port-Gentil Child Friendly City Initiative

Partners will develop and implement an operational plan Donatien Tameko, deputy representative of Unicef ??in Gabon, stayed in Port-Gentil, at the head of a working mission following the signing, last July, of a memorandum valid for three years for obtaining , by the city of Port-Gentil, from the Ville Amie des Enfants label. This involved making a first step, a few weeks before the end of the first year, with local partners, in particular the ad hoc commission for monitoring the acts of the memorandum, private sector operators and members of Civil society. With the ad hoc committee, it will be a question of developing, from the action plan drafted at the time of the signing of the memorandum, an operational plan which will serve as a roadmap for all the partners. This will be presented in particular to economic operators who, as Donatien Tameko pointed out by congratulating and thanking them, have always responded to support development projects for the benefit of populations, particularly through the mechanisms of Social Responsibility. of Companies (CSR). The UN official also praised the action of civil society organizations for the protection of children, very active in the field, and whose role in the implementation of many projects is expected. Faithful AFANOU EDEMBE

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