U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon Janet Garvey inaugurated grain mills June 2 that will help victims of child labor in four villages in Ndikinimeki, Center region. The children were rescued from cocoa plantations in 2005, where they had been exploited as laborers, and placed with local foster families. The $11,000 project (5,500,000 Fcfa), financed by the U.S. Department of State’s Economic Support Fund (ESF), purchased and installed fuel-powered cassava and corn grinding mills that will provide sustainable revenue for the foster families, assisting them to feed and educate the children.
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