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Adam Jones, UK

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Adam Jones, UKAdam Jones from the UK arrived Buea on Monday June 14, 2010 to continue research on improving water supply for the people of Buea.

The initial research was carried out by Brendan Sherry and William Douglas (both students from two different Universities in the UK) and their results suggested that further research be carried out into the possibility of harvesting, treating and using the enormous amount of rain water in Buea.

Adam’s research will therefor focus on Rain Water Harvesting as suggested by William and Brendan.

Welcome Adam and have a nice stay in Buea and we wish you success with your research project.

Sabrina Repa, UK

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Sabrina Repa, USAWelcome Sabrina.

We are pleased to finally see you here. Thanks for coming and giving of yourself tot help make a difference in people’s lives in our community. We hope you enjoy every single day of your volunteering experience.

Sabrina has come in from the UK and will join local nurses in conducting a number of medical outreaches and training Community Health  Educators who will go and help educate their “worlds”. We believe each one has a ‘world’ they can influence and it consists of the people you can reach and influence.

The program begins on June 10 with a 3-day Seminar to Train Health Educators on HIV. The Health Educators will be equipped with information to enable them educate their communities, families and the social groups to which they belong.

Following will be a 2-week outreach to freely screen the population of diabetes and hypertension. Services will be free, admission will be free and there will be free distribution of essential medicine. The first week is planned to take place at Bonduma village in Buea and the second week will take place in a Banana plantation camp in Muyuka.

Our budget for the entire program is CFA 1,462,250 (US$ 2,788.642). We need your help.

Here are some of our needs:

  • MONEY. Yes, we do need financial support please.
  • 10 Diabetes Testing Machines (Accu-Cheek (Aviva), Onetouch Ultra, BREEZE)
  • 800 test Strips
  • 4 Packets of Gloves.
  • 5 Packets of cottons
  • Needles for collection of blood for diabetes test.
  • Health Information leaflets (2000 copies)
  • Transport and food money for facilitators and volunteers.
  • For Hypertension, we need BP Machines (GIMA OR VISOCOR)
  • Training Manuals.
  • Projector and Computer.
  • Food and Transport for Participants.
  • Snacks for Presenters.
  • 3 boxes of Paracetamol 500mg
  • 3 boxes of Mebendazole
  • 2 boxes of Metronidazole 250mg
  • 3 boxes of Contrimoxazole 480mg
  • 3 boxes of Ibuprofin tablet 400mg
  • 2 cups of Vit B –Complex
  • 2 boxes Coartem tablet

If you can support financially or provide some of these material, please contact us. Thank you to all of you that have already supported Sabrina/us in this project. GBP 620 have been donated already.

Sample Volunteer Opportunities

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Here is a list of sample volunteer opportunities. This is not a complete list. As a community Development NGO, we work in a variety of domains and can help design a program that meets your skills and training so that you make the most of your time while workingt with us. Simply let us know what you are intested in:

  • Teach Computer Education to students at one of our partner Schools or train IT Instructors for these schools
  • Write funding proposals for some of our projects and help with fundraising.
  • Organize fundraising activities for our projects including contacting and following up donors. This can be excellent for online volunteers who do not or cannot leave their home countries to Cameroon.
  • Coordinate shipment of computers and other equipment such as medical suppliers and the distribution and installation in schools and community centers.
  • Teach Computer Basics (MS Window, Internet, Emailing, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint) at one of our partner scholls in Buea or at our Community IT Centres
  • Teach Web Design or Networking, or Computer repairs and maintenance, Desktop publishing or Photo Editing to about 10 students in class for 3 hours a day.
  • Serve at our Community IT Training Centre as Office Secretary, Cyber attendant, IT Instructor or IT Technician.
  • Run HIV/AIDS sensitization seminars in schools, prisons and at Community Groups, etc
  • Train HIV/AIDS Educators at our Centre, in schools, prisons, at Community Groups, etc
  • Participate in a medical outreach as part of a team.
  • Train young social entrepreneurs in basic business set up and management skills.
  • Identify needy orphans especially those orphaned by AIDS in targeted communities for subsequent support.

Computers have arrived

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We are happy to announce that the 40′ container of computers and accessories that left the UK on December 14 finally arrived Bonduma, Buea on Saturday January 30, 2010, ie just after 6.5 weeks.

It was extreme

Not many containers get around this area (not to talk of a 40′ for that matter) so it was quite a scene with so many neighbours and passersby who stood all around to watch and one could read amazement on their faces.

Since we could not afford to hire a lift to lift the container with the goods and place on the ground, we had to hire more than 33 young men who first of all emptied the container to the ground and after that had a small lift pull the empty container to the ground after a hard struggle. Once the empty container was down and properly placed, our more than 33 young men again had to pick up all the goods from the ground back into the container.

It was a long and tedious exercise but we made it finally

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