Upper Bonduma Credit Group created

In our efforts to end poverty, HINT has started another Credit Group at upper Bonduma with 6 women. Two group members who qualify have already received their first round of loans. We are working with the other 4 and will be giving out their loans soon. The possibility of creating this Credit Group and supporting [...]

Research Institute for Social Entrepreneurship & Technology

Research Institute for Social Entrepreneurship & Technology (RISET) will provide a two-year intensive entrepreneurial training to youths between the ages of 17-30 who have a passion to transform communities through Social Entrepreneurship. We are currently accepting ideas on the set-up and running of the Institute. Feel free to contact us with your input. If you [...]

Fighting poverty through Microcredit

We provide very low-interest loans and Small Business Management Training (SBMT) to especially poor women for business start-ups or business expansion so that they can increase their purchasing power and and have a means for a sustainable income for their families. Micro-credit is defined by the Grameen Bank as: “the extension of small loans to [...]

HINT offers a free Business Management Seminar

Just quick note to inform you of an important training opportunity that could be useful for you or someone you know. We are offering a free Business Management Training Seminar to equip those already in business or those planning to start a business. The 3-day seminar will start this Thursday January 8 and run from [...]

HINT distributes 2nd round of loans to successful women entrepreneurs

We are happy to have ended the last sequence of the loans that were collected from HINT during which we serve close to 30 women. We are happy for all the efforts put in towards these loans and wish to congratulate you all for every contribution you made. We have now started the second round [...]

16 people receive training and or loans

16 people including 14 women and 2 men in Ekona town received training on how to start, run, and grow small businesses for income generation. The one-day seminar took place in Ekona at the Full Gospel Church Hall. At the end of the training, 5 women received loans ranging from 20,000 – 75,000 Frs. The [...]

6 Women receive small business training

6 members of the Dominion Sisters Credit group located a Great Soppo Buea have received a one-day seminar on small business management and set up. Combining the business skills that HINT’s Executive Director, Tinshu Genesis gathered during the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) organized by Santa Clara University in the USA in concert with the [...]

Ekona Self-Help Christian Women Credit Group formed.

Ekona Self-Help Christian Women (ESCW) Credit Group has been formed. The group was formed on November 3, 2007 and is made up of 5 women. Each of these women does a business of their own and qualify to receive a loan from HINT. Group Leader: Prudencia Enow (Phone: 75932676) Group Treasurer: Deborah Anchi Membership Fee: [...]

First FFF fundraises over 2600 dollars

The first ever Food For Funds (FFF) event raised $2,645.22 (CFA 1,203,337). The funds will be used to help rural women in and around Buea to start or grow small businesses that are the only means of livelihood for the family. The funds were raised through 16 generous donors during the first ever Food For [...]

12 Women receive 12 loans of 50000Frs each

6 Members of the Dominion Sisters Credit Group and 6 from the Female Welfare Credit Group down at Bonduma, today received 50,000 Frs each from HINT to start or grow their businesses. The excited women all gathered at HINT’s office, signed the promissory notes, and collected their loans. Go here for photos of recipients and [...]

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