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A First Lady Who Puts the Last First. The eponymous charitable Foundation of Cameroon First Lady Chantal Biya is teaming up with the French Association of the world’s oldest international charity, the Order of Malta, to alleviate poverty and eye disease and raise life expectancies among the remotest communities of Cameroon, and, in turn, of the whole African Continent, and the world
[ 20 May 2014 | No Comment | 9,027 views]
Cameroon First Lady Chantal Biya. A First Lady Who Puts the Last First. The Bridge MAG. Image

Ophtalmo Sans Frontières (OSF), a partnership between the Chantal Biya Foundation (CBF) of Cameroon and the French Association of the Order of Malta (FAOM), is aiming to provide ophthalmic disease screenings –incorporating diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and eyewear prescription– for 80,000 people living in remote rural areas of Cameroon, by 2016.

Cameroon’s First Lady, Mrs. Chantal Biya, is very kind: a high-profile international figure whose prestigious status …

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Promising leader:Cracking Africa’s Mosaic of Resources.The charismatic Dr. Ousmane Biram Sané talks to The Bridge Magazine about his humanitarian program to transform Senegal, which could set a history-changing example to African leaders as to how to alleviate the Continent’s perennial problems of poverty, famine, poor health and welfare, and ever-depleting levels of native youth and talent for the emigrational pull of European opportunities.
[ 20 Oct 2013 | No Comment | 8,810 views]

Financial economist and money expert Dr. Ousmane Biram Sané is set to splash multi- millions of dollars in a bid to create the Senegal’s second biggest sugar company, to be based in the country’s southern region, in the county of Sédhiou, Middle Casamance, and by so doing, generating thousands of jobs.
On 14th October 2013, talking to The Bridge Magazine, Dr. Sané launched a clarion call …