Founded in 2001, Socatur is the only certified transport company in the city of Douala, Cameroon. The previous transport company, Sotuc, closed in 1995 and in the meantime, the inhabitants of Douala had to find other means of transport which were very often much less secure and more expensive i.e. moto-taxis.
It is in this context that Socatur took over and restarted the business with a fleet of fewer than 20 buses. It not employs 500 people and has 200 buses. The company is a real structure on which the whole city counts on not only for transport, but for social assistance as well.
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SOCATUR : from public transportation to micro-credit
7. Community involvement
Social investment
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