By Kimeng Hilton Ndukong
Cosmos Educational Press on September 6, 2016, in Yaounde offered assistance to 10 pupils worth 1 million FCFA.
Cosmos Educational Press Limited on September 6, 2016, in Yaounde offered textbooks, stationery, Mathematics sets and exercise books worth a million FCFA to 10 underprivileged nursery and primary pupils. Some 10 trash cans were also donated to 10 elementary schools in Yaounde. Each pupil received items worth 100,000 FCFA.
The gifts were handed over by Ndjock Christian, Cosmos Marketing Manager, who explained that the gesture was part of the publishing company's support of government's policy of education for all. In the past three years, Cosmos has donated about 500 trash cans to schools in the Littoral, South West, North West and Centre Regions.
Cosmos Educational Press Limited was founded by Eselecha William (Bill) Forcha in 1983, with headquarters in Limbe, in the South West Region. While still in high school, Bill authored and published three books in Economics and Commerce. Today, Cosmos has numerous course book series' in English Language, French, and Mathematics, almost all of which are on the National Book List of the Ministry of Basic Education.