(Business in Cameroon) - At the 18^th Cameroon University Games (Jeux universitaires du Cameroun in French), held all of last week on the Université de Yaoundé I, over 6,500 students of State universities and other private institutions of higher learning signed-up for voluntary insurance proposed by Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale (CNPS), the nation’s social welfare institution.

These students responded to the launch announcement by Jacques Famé Ndongo, the Minister of Higher Learning, inviting Cameroonian students to take advantage of this new possibility of social security being offered for less than a year now by CNPS after a government decision aiming at increasing social coverage in the country.

The expansion of CNPS focus, which opened up social security access to the 51% of workers in the informal economy and to all other Cameroonians wishing to insure their retirement years.