- (Business in Cameroon) - The National Support Programme for Urban and Rural Youth, PAJER-U, has selected some 48 projects in the South West region to be funded by the programme to the tune of FCFA 19, 720.000.

The refundable loan to the 48 youths is intended to empower them economically in line with the main objective of assisting youths in socio-economic integration.

According to Head of Mission for the Credit Committee and a senior official of the National Coordination of PAJER-U, Henri Aime Biheng, during a committee meeting at the Regional Delegation of Youth Affairs and Civic Education on September 16, some 48 files have been selected throughout the region with a majority of them, 25, selected from applicants in the Bakassi zone while the rest 23 files are distributed to the other five divisions of the region.

Created in 2007, over 3,519 youths nationwide have benefited from the loan scheme with 300 of them from the South West region.

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