We have already put together a website to manage the project and you can read more about it and how to contribute at http://cfs.hintonline.org. We are very grateful for your generosity and look forward to your participation in the project.

There are a number of ways through which you can help:

(1) Make a donation online, by check, or direct bank-to-bank transfer. Details on the project site above.

(2) Invite others to donate by sharing this project with your friends in your various Social Networks (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, Twitter, etc) and encouraging/inviting them to donate. You may also simply EMAIL the project link to your friends.

(3) Invite me to your church, meeting, organization, school, company, family or group for a presentation. I am in the USA fundraising for this project from June 14, 2009.

(4) You can organize a fundraiser and bring your friends, family, and neighbours together to share this project with them. We will provide you with the presentation material you need. A BBQ for example is a great option.

We will keep all donors updated on the fundraising progress on a regular basis. As at today, $555 has already been raised through 2 donors!! More on the project website.

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you and receiving your seed gift.

Best Regards,
Genesis Tinshu
President/Executive Director
HINT

iamchangingtheworld.com. “is a personal and individual initiative to deliver a message to those who want a better world for present and future generations.” (Marco Ramirez, Founder and President of I am Changing The World).

We look forward to receiving the container towards the end of May 2009.

In the meantime, we will like to express our appreciation to Computers 4 Africa through its Executive Director Mr. Cook and especially to Miss Faith Dziruni who has worked hard behind the scenes, putting together the container and also especially to the volunteers who worked hard to collect and load the container.

We currently and urgently need financial support to transport the container from the UK to Buea.

Download the donatiton Certificate here.

Read more about the SchoolPCs Project.

This time, he came to be married to Jane whom he mot and loved while volunteering here! What a changed life!

Tobias, we are thankful for your donation of computer accessories including hard disk drives, voltage regulators, RAMs, etc.

To do this, Inveneo creates and sells highly affordable and sustainable ICTs that are specifically designed for organizations — governments, NGOs, private enterprises — that serve these rural communities with vital services that include education, healthcare, economic development, relief and telecenters. Our ICTs are designed to overcome challenges that these organizations face:

• Lack of dependable, if any, electricity
• Extremely high cost of power
• Prevalence of heat, dust, moisture and humidity, often punishing conditions for ICTs
• Lack of affordable access to Internet and telephony services
• Novice users and administrators

This partnership follows HINT’s participation in Inveneo’s workshop in Cameroon in November 2007.

Becoming a certified ICIP means we can sell and install Inveneo equipment.

More here: http://www.inveneo.org/?q=ictpartners#cameroon

The Bamenda deployment was successful, with six technicians including HINT’S representative Ebang Bertrand. HINT was charged with the network topology and power wiring of the main building.The other technicians mounted the Visat dish on ground.Everything went successful even though crimping, testing the UTP cables for 25 computers and introducing guilox to protect and reduce cross-talks between the UTP cables wasn’t easy. Prof Bob Marsh (inveneo’s ICT instructor to Cameroon) introduced efficient and cheap network tools which facilitated our task.

I learnt so much from this on site deployment. While working with computers that consumes virtually nothing,reduced size,very efficient . I just believe introducing this computers to any local community for any project is a success. Prof Bob introduced a software “Deep freeze” which totally eliminates the idea of viruses in computer systems. This experience has widened our knowledge of CISCO networking devices and Microsoft server 2003 which were all a theory to us.Now we can put this skills to practice.

We are very pleased to have Inveneo as our ICT partner. HINT wishes to sett up a project to supply Buea with cheap Internet services, from a single or more Access Point(s). We believe with a single Access point (Nano station 2) which is very cheap and efficient it can cover the whole of Buea looking at the sloppy nature of the Town.

This can only be done with your support. If you make this happen please contact us.

Here is the information letter as received this week:

Dear Tinshu Genesis Gemuh,

We are very pleased to inform you that the jury has selected your entry of Rural Electrification And Community Technology (REACT), in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008 to be a finalist with a chance to win the Stockholm Challenge Trophy.

The winner in the Education category will be announced at the Gala Dinner and Award ceremony in the Stockholm City Blue Hall on May 22. The winner will receive the Stockholm Challenge trophy and certificate of achievement and a cheque for 5.000 Euros at that event.

The Gala Evening will close Challenge Week, which will be held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm between May 19 – 22. As a finalist you are invited to join in all of these events free of charge. We are unable to subsidise the cost of your travel or accommodation but the following parts of the programme are free to all finalists:

Welcome reception on May 19th, at 5 p.m. Six parallel Workshops on May 20th The Open Conference on May 21st Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony in the Blue Hall on May 22nd.

Finalists will also receive: Exhibition spaces Study visits to a choice of organisations in Stockholm Morning and afternoon tea and coffee on May 20th and 21st. Finalists dinner on May 20th

We will shortly send to you a request to login to your Stockholm Challenge account to update your personal details for participation in Challenge Week, fill out a registration page and confirm the names of those taking part in the events. You are welcome to bring as many of your colleagues as you like to the workshops and conference but participation in the Gala Evening in the City Hall is limited to TWO representatives for each entry.

You will then also be able to join the finalists on-line forum where you will learn more about the programme for Challenge Week, find out about travel requirements for getting to Sweden and be able to help decide the topics of the discussions that you and your peers will have in Stockholm.

Once again, congratulations on your success in becoming a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008, we look forward to greeting you in May, during Challenge Week!

Kind regards

Ulla Skiden

Director and

Earl Mardle Chairman of the Jury

www.stockholmchallenge.se

The Stockholm Challenge is an ICT for development programme at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). It culminates in the Challenge Week Event, May 19-22, 2008.

‘BE A STEPPING STONE FOR AT LEAST AN UNDERPRIVILEGED CAMEROONIAN’.

While at our Internet Centre at Bonduma you could win up to 5hrs of time to work on the internet. All Weekly 5hrs winners will recommend an orphan each for our scholarship award for the 2008/2009 academic year.

Check your tickets  @ the counter  at HINT CYBERCAFE, BONDUMA, BUEA.

Do you know of a better way to use the Internet to help the underprivileged? Please let us know through your comments below

YOUR ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE ALSO WELCOMED.

Inveneo creates highly sustainable and affordable ICT infrastructure technologies designed specifically for organizations that provide vital services — education, healthcare, economic development — in remote and rural areas in the developing world.

Inveneo partners with local ICT companies/organisations in countries it serves around the world to provide skilled and cost effective installation and support services for clients. These ICT Partners are certified by Inveneo and available to sell. This program is called the Inveneo Certified ICT Partner (ICIP) program.

Upon completion of the training, sceduled to run from November 26-December 2, 2007, HINT will become one of Inveneo‘s in-country certified