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Celebrate World Food Day this Thursday October 16 in a unique way.

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Celebrate World Food Day this Thursday October 16 in a unique way.

Share a meal with your family, friends, co-workers or neighbours and remember the over 850 million people who know what it’s like to go to bed hungry every night around the world. Let your FOOD become FUNDS that will FEED a life!

As an organization, we have been actively involved in helping people come out of poverty in practical ways by building life skills and providing micro-loans for business start-up or expansion through funds we raise during our annual fund raiser – Food For Funds.

In 2007, Brian & Christe Dodds in Dallas/Fort Worth, USA decided to help and through their effort about $3000 was raised and this amount impacted the lives of about 30 women and over 210 people indirectly. Testimonies of last year’s recipients are here: http://fff.hintonline.org/07testimonies.htm. Join and help us meet our target of $10,000 this year to assist 80 families.

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one”. Mother Theresa

As you take your breakfast, lunch and dinner this Thursday October 16, please remember in any way you can, the over 5 million children a year who die of hunger.” That means 1 child dies every 5 seconds of hunger! (Source: FAO)

There are a number of ways you can be involved:

1. Securely donate online through PayPal.

2. Write a check to:
Hope Outreach International Ministries (Please put HINT-FFF in the Memo)
10993 N Harrells Ferry Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70816-8304
Phone: (225) 272-5432
Fax: (225) 272-6805
Email: hopeoutreach@gmail.com

3. Join our facebook group at: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17147366597 and invite your friends to join.

If you need more information about donations, please speak with Brian Dodds at (001) 800.498.6885 x23 or doddsfamily@sbcglobal.net

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,
Genesis Tinshu
Founder/Executive Director
Helps International (HINT)
Cell Phone: +237 76 27 41 31

Back from South Africa

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Greetings again from Cameroon. Trust that you and your family are are doing fine.

We returned from South Africa about 2 weeks ago and are still settling down tot life again. South Africa was a wonderful experience with God as we opened up and allowed Him to speak to us.

We are already making plans for an outreach here in Buea next month. We keep you informed about this.

Meanwhile, we are also putting things together for this year’s Food For Funds (FFF) event. Brian and Christe will be hosting their second event. We would like to encourage you to be a host in this year’s event. To participate, please visit www.fff.hintonline.org and register online.

To see how your involvement is helping to change lives, please visit this link: http://www.fff.hintonline.org/07testimonies.htm. The success of the program lies in our model: serving mostly women only in groups.

We processed and mailed your receipt for last year’s donation but the mail seems to have been missing. We are working with Brian to ensure you receive a receipt for your gift of last year.

Thank you again for standing with us to change lives in real ways.

Regards,
Genesis Tinshu
Executive Director
Helps International (HINT)

6 Women receive small business training

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6 members of the Dominion Sisters Credit group located a Great Soppo Buea have received a one-day seminar on small business management and set up.

Combining the business skills that HINT’s Executive Director, Tinshu Genesis gathered during the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) organized by Santa Clara University in the USA in concert with the Leavey School of Business Administration in 2006, he trained the women on topics such as:

Session 1:
Choosing your business
Planning your Finances

Session 2:
Assessing Profit: Will it work?
Borrowing Money

Session 3:
Keeping Records
Expanding your Business

Go here for photos of recipients and the training.

A big thank you to Helen Savage in the UK for helping to put this training material together during her volunteer time at HINT.

The Next ICT Training Session begins at HINT

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The next Computer & Internet Training session started at HINT’s new IT Centre today Monday July 02, 2007.

We offer 10 modules covering

  1. Computer Basics
  2. Microsoft Windows
  3. Internet (Using Internet Explorer and FireFox)
  4. Emailing (Using Internet Explorer and FireFox)
  5. Microsoft Word
  6. Microsoft Excel
  7. Microsoft Access
  8. Microsoft PowerPoint
  9. Web Design
  10. Adobe PhotoShop

You can still join this week if you want to or come in to take only some modules.

We are currently developing curricula for courses such as Networking, Desktop Publishing

We will like to express our gratitude to Pastor Stuart and Jendy NICE (CA, USA), Paul Fonkwo (CA, USA), John Zachary (CA, USA) for their part in helping to get this new centre running. Thank you and God will richly bless you, your families and your ministries.

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.

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