Information | Helps International (HINT)

Sabrina Repa, UK

May 21, 2010 by hint Leave a Comment

Welcome 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.

Brendan Sherry, UK

June 19, 2009 by Genesis Leave a Comment

We would like to welcome Brendan Sherry to HINT.

Brendan is from Imperial College London and currently completing his M.Sc in Environmental Technology. He will research on the project “Enabling Safe Water Supply” that is intended to provide safe portable water to three villages: Bonduma, Wotolo, and Bokoko.

For more information on the project, click here or visit the project on the website of Engineers Without Borders, UK.

Welcome Brendan

To contact Brendan by email: Brendan Sherry

William Douglas, UK

June 18, 2009 by Genesis 1 Comment

We would like to welcome William Douglas to HINT.

Will is from Cranfield University in London and currently completing his M.Sc in Environmental Technology. He will research on the project “Enabling Safe Water Supply” that is intended to provide safe portable water to three villages: Bonduma, Wotolo, and Bokoko.

For more information on the project, click here or visit the project on the website of Engineers Without Borders, UK.

Welcome Will.

To contact Will by email: William Douglas

Enabling Clean and Safe Water Supply

April 11, 2009 by Genesis 7 Comments

Many communities rely on untreated stream water and often result in several diseases. We would like to help such communities with water purification systems in order to prevent water-borne disease.

We are currently working on providing clean water to the inhabitants of Bonduma village. We are partnering with Engineers Without Border (EWB) in the UK on this project. We are currently at research level.

Click here for detail on the Safe Water Supply Project

If you concern is enabling poor communities get access to clean water, then you can join us on this project. Contact us for more information.

Fundraise for HINT

February 22, 2009 by Genesis Leave a Comment

Thank you for considering to help raise funds for some of our projects. We have listed on this page some of the different ways/ideas in which you can help raise funds right from where you are. Together we can make a difference.

Food For Funds (FFF)

5 or more people come together on October 16 (World Food Day) to eat, discuss ways of helping to end poverty in Africa, and make donations. Funds raised will be used to support Helps International’s work in helping poor people come out of poverty in Cameroon.

Procedure.

Someone contacts HINT and indicates the willingness to organize a meeting through the Food For Funds website.
HINT gets in touch with additional details about hosting the event.
The meeting takes place.
Funds are sent to HINT online via PayPal or deposited into our UK Bank account.

This is one of the easiest ways to raise funds for some of our on-going project. Please contact us to let us know if you will participates in this year’s Food For Funds Fundraising Event(FFF).

Testimonial: in 2006, Michael & Margaret Astbury in England organised a Tea Evening and raised more than GBP 300 for our Community Education Library (CEL) Project. CEL will kick off in September 2007 and will provide over 2000 school textbooks to about 300 primary school children. Organizing an event is a great way to raise funds for the work we do as well as creating a general awareness about our work and raising more supporters. We will provide you with the necessary information you need to pass across to your guests. Contact us if you will want to organize an event to raise funds for one or more of our projects.

Testimonial: 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 Province of Cameroon. You too can take a simple decision to participate in this year’s FFF and change lives

Run For Funds (RFR)

Fifth Third River Bank Run

Participate in the 5th 3rd River Bank Run in the USA and help raise funds for HINT. Go to this website for information. Please contact us if you can run for funds to support HINT.

London Marathon

Participate in the London Marathon in London, England, and raise support for HINT.

ING Amsterdam Marathon

Participate in the ING Amsterdam Marathon in Amsterdam and raise support for HINT.