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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).

HINT's IT Project wins Global Junior Challenge 2004 prize

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Our Project ComICT Centre , emerged one of the few winners in the prestigious, international, and highly competitive Global Junior Challenge on November 19, 2004 in Rome. Tinshu Genesis Gemuh, President of Helps International (HINT) Cameroon who also doubles as project director received the prizes from the hands of Mr. Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome on Friday November 19, 2004 at the Julio Cesare Hall of the Campidoglio in Rome. The prizes included a certificate of recognition, a beautiful metallic award with our project name inscribed on it in addition to a €5,000 cash prize under the Small Grants scheme.

The Global Junior challenge is a global award promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium, a non-profit organization founded by the municipality of Rome and six other ICT companies. The intention of the award dedicated to young people and to schools, is to identify and reward best practices on the use of new technologies in education and the training of youngsters. An international jury selects finalist and winners are announced during the award ceremony that takes place in Rome at the Campidoglio city hall.

There are photos available of the ceremony in Rome. You can also read more about the Global Junior Chalene on their website.

Caroline Fuseau of Computer Aid UK, visits HINT

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Caroline Fuseau, Africa Program Officer for Computer Aid International (CAI) visited HINT on June 17, 2004 so as to have first hand information on the progress of the ComICT Centre Project. During her visit, she was accompanied by Tinshu Genesis Gemuh, President of HINT Cameroon and Project Director to some government and private services including the Teachers’ Resource Centre, Provincial Delegation of Education, among others. Her visits culminated in a meeting with over 30 leaders of NGOs, schools, and community organizations interested in using computers in their work. By the time she left Buea, she was deeply satisfied by the work that had been done on the ComICT Centre project and announced that Computer Aid will be willing to help ship the computers needed for the ComICT Centre Project if HINT Cameroon will only provide shipping and handling charges.

CAI is the world’s leading donor of refurbished computers to the developing world. Their goal is to help bridge the digital divide.

There are photos available of caroline’s visit.

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