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HINT Now accepts Online Donations

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We are glad to announce that Helps International now has a new website built to enable online donations! Thanks to the wonderful skills of Joseph Talbot currently volunteering with HINT from England you can now support us conveniently through PayPal.

We are looking forward to setting up an online store in the near future. We will let you know as soon as this is completed.

We are inviting you to go to the online donation page to celebrate this with us by “Testing” the online donation service. Your donation will be much appreciated.

HINT admitted into Generous Giving Network

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Helps International has been admitted into the Generous Giving Network. What does this mean?

Generous Giving is a privately funded Christian ministry that seeks to encourage givers of all income levels—as well as pastors, church lay leaders and others—to experience the joy of giving and embrace a lifestyle of generosity, according to God’s word and Christ’s example. It was launched in 2000 by the Maclellan Foundation to stir a renewed, Spirit-led commitment to generosity among Christians. Generous Giving does not solicit donations.

Through the Generous Giving Marketplace (the world’s largest searchable database of faith-based funding opportunities …) verified and approved Christian churches and nonprofit ministries can post funding opportunities which can be viewed and possibly funded online by thousands of donors worldwide.

We can post as many projects as we want but we must pay US$ 45 per project for it to be visible to donors. This is where we need you to come in. If you will like to pay for one or more projects to be visible, please contact us. Thank you.

Tinshu raises funds in USA for HINT

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On his way to the USA, Tinshu met a cripple at the Douala International Airport and he was selling postcards. He bought a few to give to some friends and an idea came to buy a good quantity to use for fundraising. He then bought all of the man’s cards. What a joyous day it must have been for this young guy. Previously, Tinshu had also bought some crafts from the “Marche de Fleur” in Douala for the same purpose.

Amazingly, during his one-month stay in the USA, Tinshu raised over US$ 500 from the articles he sold during his time in the USA, plus a donation of US$ 2,500 from Anthony Bettencourt (one of his GSBI Mentors), plus more than US$ 3,000 in cash and in kind donated by Pastor Stuart Nice and His Church, Valley Life Centre, giving a total of about US$ 6,000.

Many thanks to all our generous donors in support of the work of HINT.

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.

Genesis Tinshu selected to represent HINT at GSBI 2006 in USA!

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The Executive Director of Helps International (HINT), Tinshu Genesis was 1 of 17 World-class Social Entrepreneurs selected by Santa Clara University’s Centre for Science, Technology and Society (CSTS) for the 2006 Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program in partnership with Leavey School of Business, July 29-September 30, 2006 at Santa Clara University, USA. the prize...

Held on the beautiful campus of Santa Clara University, the GSBI provides an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. Presented by the University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Leavey School of Business Administration, the GSBI offers the unique context of a Jesuit university dedicated to social justice combined with leading resources of Silicon Valley. The invited social benefit entrepreneurs have demonstrated their commitment to applying technology to address urgent human needs throughout the world and have achieved recognition through the rigorous selection process of the prestigious Tech Museum’s Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity, the World Bank’s Development Marketplace, the City of Rome’s Global Junior Challenge competitions, or as Schwab Fellows..

See Photos of the 2006 GSBI.

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