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Back Packs 2007 & Buea Community Library Project (BCLP)

August 15, 2007 by Genesis Leave a Comment

On September 8, 2007, HINT will provide education Support in the form of Scholarships, textbooks, uniforms to about 100 over 50 orphans and children from poor home in and around Buea. On that same day, we will also formally launch the Buea Community Library Project (BCLP).

BCLP focuses on providing school textbooks to orphas and children from poor homes so that they can still get a good education. Joanna Tillson, a volunteer from the USA has worked very hard for the past 5 weeks to put all this program together.

We are currently accepting donations to these and other children. CFA 25,000 (US$ 53) will buy all textbooks for 1 primary 6 child in a year; CFA 50,000 (US$ 106) will provide for 2 children, and so on. Go here to read more and learn how to donate.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Buea, children, community, donation, education, HINT, orphans, poor, school, USA, volunteer

Joseph and Heather Talbot have returned to Britain

June 10, 2007 by Genesis Leave a Comment

After 11 months volunteering at Helps International, Joseph and Heather Talbot return to Britain on June 7th.

During their time with us, Joseph has written and taught classes in Web design and manipulating digital images with Photoshop, as well as building this website.

Heather has produced and run a ‘train the trainers’ HIV education program, from who’s ranks she has established ‘HINT-HED’, an HIV Educators group. Heather has also set up the Wotolo Community Health Advice Centre.

We are grateful to Joe and Hev for the work they have done during their stay, and wish them well on their return to Britain.

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

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: community, education, health, help, Helps, HINT, International, volunteer, volunteering, well

Joseph and Heather Talbot return to England

May 29, 2007 by Genesis Leave a Comment

After 11 months volunteering at Helps International, Joseph and Heather Talbot return to Britain on June 7th. During their time with us, Joseph has written and taught classes in Web design and manipulating digital images with Photoshop, as well as building this website.

Heather has produced and run a ‘train the trainers’ HIV education program, from who’s ranks she has established ‘HINT-HED’, an HIV Educators group. Heather has also set up the Wotolo Community Health Advice Centre.

We are grateful to Joe and Hev for the work they have done during their stay, and wish them well on their return to Britain.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: community, education, health, help, Helps, HINT, International, volunteer, volunteering, well

Fundraising in UK for HINT

December 23, 2006 by Genesis Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Africa, Buea, Cameroon, children, community, contact, education, health, help, HINT, school, UK, volunteer, volunteering

Michael and Margaret Asbury visit HINT from England

December 8, 2006 by Genesis Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Buea, Cameroon, community, contact, education, health, HINT, Information, projects, school, training, volunteer, volunteering

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