Bernadette Sanji: Climbing Cable Television Distribution Poles For A Living

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Bernadette Sanji: Climbing Cable Television Distribution Poles For A Living

14 mars 2022 14:10

She embraced the trade in 2019 to enable her sponsor her education in the University of Buea.

Climbing poles and effecting television cable network connection which has been a reserved domain for men in Buea now has an “intruder,” a woman. Her name is Bernadette Sanji who hails from Otang Village in Bafut, Mezam Division of the North West Region. She has climbed on poles hundreds of times and done countless connections. She has equally connected hundreds of houses with cable television network. The journey into cable television distribution started in 2019 when Bernadette Sanji was a second-year student undertaking a Bachelor degree in Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of Buea. “I was looking for something to do that will permit me help myself get handouts in school and pocket allowance for my basic needs. I started working in SWECOM Tole branch as a commercial agent but was later transferred to SWECOM Great Soppo branch office. As time went by I started learning the technical part of it like connecting plugs among others,” she recollected. She attributed all the successes recorded to her male colleagues who have never failed to encourage and mentor her. “I am the only female technician working in the midst of men. Climbing a pole was difficult and scaring too from the beginning. But as time went on, I was getting used to it bit by bit,” she told Cameroon Business Today. Televi - sion cable network dis- tribution is a lucrative activity as tips are a l w a y s...