The big Big Earth Awards news conference took place yesterday Monday 7th April, 11 am at the British Language institute Akwa. It was a panel of four peoples: Emmanuel (the moderator), Ojong Solange (the president) and Nadine Tonguem (Inspired humanitarian activist and blogger).
Before I go further, I will love to urge you all in joining this train waggon in support of The Big Earth Award for the forgotten. Our Cameroon labour force is dominated by the informal sector making up to 80% of the total labour force. This is huge...! but what is alarming here is, these people who contribute so much to the economic are most ofter forgotten due the type of degrading jobs they have do to feed their families.
Before I go further, I will love to urge you all in joining this train waggon in support of The Big Earth Award for the forgotten. Our Cameroon labour force is dominated by the informal sector making up to 80% of the total labour force. This is huge...! but what is alarming here is, these people who contribute so much to the economic are most ofter forgotten due the type of degrading jobs they have do to feed their families.
The people in this sector have one thing only in their mind: that is providing three square meals to their children, but little do they know they contribute to the bigger society . This is where the BIG EARTH AWARDS comes in. It empowers them. Makes them recognise they are leaders in their own right.
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| From left to right: Nadine Tonguem, Ojong Solange, and the main brain behind it all Mr Thomas Ayuck Fotang |
This award is for the truck pusher, the call box owner, the fish roaster and even mortuary assistant. Yes it is indeed for the stigmatised jobs in our society. This people are often given training and aided in raising funds to increase their capital.
As celebrity actress Ojong Solange, President of the BIG EARTH AWARDS committee stated at the News Conference, "This Big Earth Awards is not to take the truck pusher off his job. No!!! we need them in our society". What this does is to make them better truck pushers with plenty selfesteen". Self esteem is sure one thing we can't buy .
The aim of this news conference was to emphasis the awards name change from My Big 8 Awards to now BIG EARTH AWARDS. This name change comes as a result of its expansion mission from 8 awards to more than 20 awards given this year to people from different regions of Cameroon. Also the theme of this awards event needed to be emphasised "striving for emergence" Our nation's objective is to be emergent at horizon year 2035. How do we achieve such if we don't start from the informal sector. These peoples need to be empowered now than ever.
Thanks to Thomas Ayuk Fotang Alias Pa Tom (the man behind it all) for this great initiative. Thanks to Celebrity actress Solange Ojong for her passion towards this project and for lending her time, voice and face in making sure the forgotten of our society are remembered always. She is a woman with a great heart. God bless the Big Earth Award Team as a whole.
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| Journalist and Celebrity actor Alenne Menget in the middle, Solange Ojong on the far right and Nadine Toguem far left. Posing for picture right after The Big Earth Awards News conference |
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| Mr Ayuk Thomas Fotang; CEO founder of Big Earth Awards And the Grass to Grace foundation talking to the media right after the Big Earth Awards News conference |
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