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HIV Educators Seminar, July 9-11, 2007

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HINT is organising the next HIV Educators Seminar from July 9-11, 2007 at it Multi-purpose Community Centre in Bonduma. The course will be taught by Helen Savage and is open to all who have an interest in educating their communities about HIV/AIDS.

The training is FREE OF CHARGE and each participant will receive a training Manual and an end-of-course certificate.

To participate, come to our Head Office at Bonduma, near Mini Coquette junction and register for FREE. Call 3332 3422, or email info @ hintonline.org for more information.

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.

HINT donates school supplies to needy children

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ONe of the children with their gift

Back Packs is a program organized by HINT once a year at the beginning of each school year to provide school supplies to needy children. In 2006, about 30 children were helped. If you will like to helps Children’s education, please contact us at info@hintonline.org.

We help provide school fees, books, uniforms and other supplies as needed by the children. Together, we can make a difference. A donation of US$ 25 (GBP 13) per month or US$ 300 (GBP 154) per year will help provide all the basic needs for one school Child. We will send you information and photos of the child(ren) you are supporting and the child(ren) will communicate with you directly (if you wish). You can donate online via PayPal.

See photos of the ceremony.

Joseph and Heather Talbot arrive Buea from the UK

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Heather and Joe TalbotJoseph and Heather Talbot a couple from England have finally arrived Buea to work as volunteers for Helps International (HINT). Interestingly, Joe and Hev will be here for quite a while.

While here Heather will help us with our Community Health Projects such as HIV/AIDS awareness and training among Community groups and faith-based organisations; you will also be able to visit other health projects in Buea to have first hand information about the health needs of the area; you will equally be doing a pioneering work on our Community Health Centre.

She is a senior nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. Read more about Heather.

Joe’s main work will be to develop a brand new website for HINT as well as help develop curriculum for some of our advanced IT training modules such as HTML & CSS, photo editing, PHP,…

Joe is quite creative and able multimedia designer with an eye for design and a good understanding of Web technologies and Web-related usability and accessibility issues. He is experienced in developing standards-compliant and accessible online learning tools, primarily involving XHTML, PHP, MySQL and Actionscript. He has over five years experience of developing digital media projects in a University environment and is familiar with the challenges of delivering collaborative projects on time and on budget. He works at the Oxford University Computing Services at the University of Oxford, England. .

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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