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Valley Life Centre USA supports HINT

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Pastor Stuart with his wifeValley Life Centre, a Church in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) has indicated their commitment to supporting the work of HINT through web hosting. This was made know to us at HINT recently by Pastor Stuart Nice who is Senior Pastor of the Church.

As we train web designers, the need has always been hosting the websites done by our students. Valley Life Centre will pay for hosting these websites and the benefits of such generosity will flow back to HINT and to our students bringing about real social and economic change in the lives of our trainees.

Valley Life Centre is also helping to collect used or new technology equipment and any other useful items for subsequent shipment to Cameroon. To make a donation in-kind or cash to HINT, please contact Pastor Stuart Nice of Valley Life Centre.

A big thank you to Pastor Stuart and all the wonderful and lovely people at Valley Life Centre.

Michael and Margaret Asbury visit HINT from England

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Michael and Margaret Astbury (parents of Heather Margaret Talbot, currently volunteering with HINT in Buea, Cameroon) recently visited HINT and some parts of Cameroon November 20 to December 2 2006.

During their time here, we were able to show them around some of our projects including our ICT Training Centre in Bonduma, and a building we have already acquired to host a Community Health Centre and a Community Education Library. We also visited the three Pilot Schools we will be working with on the Library/Literacy Project.

Michael & Margaret Astbury attend Woodbridge Quay Church and you can contact them through the Church’s website to learn more about opportunities in Cameroon to serve or to support. You may also contact us directly for more information on volunteering and support.

Joseph and Heather Talbot donate to HINT

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the ICT training centre with the new computers and chairsJoseph and Heather Talbot, volunteers currently serving with HINT have donated 3 PIII computers, 7 UPS for power backup, 10 Table Chairs and assorted items to HINT Cameroon. This donation has helped to improve our technology input, both in quality and quantity at out ICT Training Centre here in Buea. HINT would like to say thank you to Joe and Hev.

See photos of the donated items.

Tinshu wins lone scholarship for GSBI 2006

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The GSBI is ending today and we have all been invited to the closing dinner offered by the University. University professors and staff of the GSBI and friends are present. The atmosphere is quite relaxed and everyone is feeling free going to the table for their food. The food is truly American and truly delicious.Genesis shakes hands with Prof. Jim

Everyone now seems to have finished up with food. Prof. Jim, one of the major GSBI staff is up and has started awarding certificates and gifts to the Social Entrepreneurs. The award session is punctuated by much clapping as names of ‘Social Entrepreneurs’ are called. The session is over and each Social Entrepreneur now has a certificate of participation and a glass shield containing a group photo of the Social Entrepreneurs and the GSBI faculty. Jim is still standing up as though he still has some else to say.

Then he begins: Dear friends, you for the past few years, we have been trying to establish a scholarship fund for the GSBI have not been successful. However, this year, we were able to get ONE scholarship for the GSBI and we have decided to award it to TINSHU GEMUH of Helps International, Cameroon. The scholarship will help him pay his flight from Cameroon to Santa Clara and back.

The whole hall is cheering and one can read surprises on many faces. Tinshu stands up to go have a hand shake with Jim and he is completely overwhelmed with surprise as well as he never expected such an award.

HINT's work acknowledged by Cameroon Government

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The Minister Delegate at Cameroon’s Ministry of External Relations has written a letter of congratulations to Tinshu Genesis Gemuh Executive Director of Helps International (HINT) in recognition of the Prize he received from the hands of the Mayor of Rome as well as HINT’s efforts to help bridge the digital divide by providing access and training to the new ICTs.

The letter dated January 24 2005 with reference number 00219/DIPL/D3/SDCNG/ONG was received as a big surprise as all of us at HINT did not know that the government was aware of our little efforts to ease access to information and communication in our local communities.

One of our major projects is providing access and training to information and communication technologies through computers connected to the internet. We have two main levels of training: Basic and Advanced.

You can download a copy of the ministerial letter (link to a pdf document).

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