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Two volunteers depart, two volunteers arrive

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Joseph and Heather TALBOT returned to England on June 7, after close to 12 months volunteering for HINT. Thank you Joe & Hev for your time and resource investment at HINT. Meanwhile, on May 29 and July …, Helen Savage from England and Joanna Tilson from the USA respectively arrived Buea to volunteer at HINT. Welcome, Helen and Joanna, and we hope you have an exciting time at HINT, in Buea, and in Cameroon.

We have very exciting volunteer opportunities and if you want to volunteer read more here.

Joanna Tilson arrives Buea from the USA

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Joanna Tilson arrived Buea last Sunday July 8, 2007 to work as a volunteer with Helps International (HINT).

Joanna is a librarian and will be working on the Community Library Project (CEL) initiated by HINT. CEL will provide thousands of school textbooks to hundreds (and eventually thousands) of orphans and needy children in and out of Buea.

She will also help with organization of Back Packs 2007 on September 8, 2007. Back Packs is an annual event during which HINT offers scholarships, books, and uniforms to orphans and needy children.

We will equally discuss setting up Helps International (HINT) as a 501(c)3 organization in the United States of America.

Joanna, you are welcome to the beautiful town of Buea, Cameroon and we hope you will enjoy your over two months stay here.

What is Food for Funds

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Every October 16,  the world commemorates World Food Day (WFD). While others will have more than enough to eat, others will be dying of hunger. What an unequal world. I have had the opportunity to visit countries in Europe and America and I am amazed at how much food is thrown away. On the other hand, I have also had countless number of people who have approached me in my community for help and who sincerely cannot afford the very basic of life – food.

During the week of October 12 – 19, 2008, we are asking that you bring together 2 or more people or as many as you can bring together for a meal. You will eat together with your group members and then discuss ways to effectively end hunger in the world. You will also watch together, PowerPoint presentations (and maybe videos) about how HINT is helping rural people overcome poverty in Cameroon, Sub-saharan Africa.

Finally, you will be invited to make a donation that will be used by HINT to extend micro-credit to rural women in Cameroon, to help them overcome poverty.

In 2007, we raised close to $3,000 from 15 donors who gathered at Arlington, USA during the first ever Food For Funds event that we orgainsed through the effort of one family – Brian & Christe Dodds. The funds were used to extend credit to 25 rural women organised in 4 credit groups in two rural communities in the the South West of Cameroon.

Our target for 2008 is a minimum of $10,000 to help a minimum of 80 rural women. Our vision is to see thousands of women liberated from poverty.

We now invite you to participate in FFF 2008 by becoming a host or joining an up-coming FFF event closest to you.

Ted and Glenys Talbot Visit Helps International (HINT)

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Ted and Glenys trying out the local transportTed and Glenys Talbot, the parents of Joseph Talbot, currently volunteering with HINT recently made a visit to Cameroon to see their son and daughter in-law (Heather Talbot) and to visit Helps International (HINT) and see for themselves the work they are doing.

They were also able to visit several other parts of Cameroon including Babanki-Tungo in the North West Province, Korup National Park in Mundemba, Kribi, Limbe…

“We are very please with the work Helps international is doing especially in the area of helping to educate children from poor homes. Thank you also for taking good care of Joe and Hev”

See photos of their time in Cameroon.

Fundraising in UK for HINT

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Mike and Margaret during theit visitTwo of HINT’s UK supporters, Michael and Margaret Astbury who recently visited Cameroon have organized a Coffee evening to raise funds for our Community Library Project here in Buea. About 80% of children in primary schools in Cameroon have 20% of the required text books while only about 20% have about 70% of the required text books. With this condition, learning for the children and teaching for the teachers become difficult. We have been trying to help this situation by buying books for about 50 children for the past 2 years.

Based on a research conducted by Heather Talbot (currently volunteering for HINT) we have decided to set up a library to help provide textbooks to school children in Cameroon. We will buy and stock a large database of the books the children need and give out the books to them at the beginning of each school year. They will use and return to the library for other children to use and the cycle goes on and on.

Each child needs approximately 8-10 textbooks and each costs averagely US$ 7 (GBP 3.6). The project will be formally launched in September 2007 when schools re-open in Cameroon.

About US $ 578.8 (GBP 308) has now been raised so far for this project. However, we need US $ 13,875.53 (GBP 7,191.63) to be able to set up a library with 2000 books to serve about 300 children in the 3 pilot schools we are working with. This is a very exciting and innovative program and we are inviting you to invest in a child’s life today. The fulfillment of this project means that parents can save more money for children’s’ health, nutrition, etc…

You can contact Mike and Margaret through the Quay Church website to join them in supporting childrens’ education in Africa.

OR

donate one or more books today to change a child’s life.

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