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School PCs Project – How to Apply

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HINT has launched a new project called School PCs whose main goal is to bridge the digital divide by installing computer labs and Internet in Schools all over Cameroon.

To apply, click here to download and fill out the application form and email back to us (send to info @ hintonline.org)

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You may apply online by filling the form below. We will be in touch soonest.

School PCs Application Form

    School/Centre/NGO Name:

    Physical Address:

    School Phone:

    School Email (Pls double check):

    Contact Person:

    Cell Phone:

    Email (Pls double check):

    Do you have a SECURED ROOM with furniture available?

    Do you have electricity in the room?

    Do you have a fixed telephone line at school? What is the number?

    Do you intend to connect the computers to the internet?

    Can you set aside one teacher for us to train who will later serve as a computer teacher in the school?

    Are you willing to pay for such teacher?

    When can we visit you school/centre for a needs assessment?

    How many Dual Core Computers are you applying for?

    How many Pentium 4 Computers are you applying for? {See (1.) below}

    How many 15 inches LCDs (Flat Screens) are you applying for?

    How many 17 inches LCDs (Flat Screens) are you applying for?

    How many 19 inches LCDs (Flat Screens) are you applying for?

    Do you need a switch? {See (6.) below}

    Do you need a Printer? {See (7.) below} If Yes, which type:

    Do you need our help setting up your Local Area Network (LAN)? {See (8.) below}

    Do you need our help for electrical wiring of your computer room? {See (9.) below}

    Are you willing/able to pay for the computers per the costs below?

    How many students are there in your school/centre:

    How many teachers are there in your school/centre:

    Please type in the following code: captcha

    Read the Executive Summary of the Project…

    Volunteer Application Form

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    Thank you for considering to volunteer with us. There are a number of volunteer opportunities currently available as summarised below. If there’s anything you can do in the list, fill the following form and we will contact you as soon as possible.

    You can help by doing the following:

    Teach Computer Education to students at one of our partner Schools or train IT Instructors for these schools
    Write funding proposals for some of our projects and help with fundraising.
    Organize fundraising activities for our projects including contacting and following up donors. This can be excellent for online volunteers who do not or cannot leave their home countries to Cameroon.
    Coordinate shipment of computers and other equipment such as medical suppliers and the distribution and installation in schools and community centers.
    Teach Computer Basics (MS Window, Internet, Emailing, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint) at one of our partner scholls in Buea or at our Community IT Centres
    Teach Web Design or Networking, or Computer repairs and maintenance, Desktop publishing or Photo Editing to about 10 students in class for 3 hours a day.
    Serve at our Community IT Training Centre as Office Secretary, Cyber attendant, IT Instructor or IT Technician.
    Run HIV/AIDS sensitization seminars in schools, prisons and at Community Groups, etc
    Train HIV/AIDS Educators at our Centre, in schools, prisons, at Community Groups, etc
    Participate in a medical outreach as part of a team.
    Train young social entrepreneurs in basic business set up and management skills.
    Identify needy orphans especially those orphaned by AIDS in targeted communities for subsequent support.
    And there can be other opportunities…
    • Teach Computer Education to students at one of our partner Schools or train IT Instructors for these schools
    • Write funding proposals for some of our projects and help with fundraising.
    • Organize fundraising activities for our projects including contacting and following up donors. This can be excellent for online volunteers who do not or cannot leave their home countries to Cameroon.
    • Coordinate shipment of computers and other equipment such as medical suppliers and the distribution and installation in schools and community centers.
    • Teach Computer Basics (MS Window, Internet, Emailing, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint) at one of our partner scholls in Buea or at our Community IT Centres
    • Teach Web Design or Networking, or Computer repairs and maintenance, Desktop publishing or Photo Editing to about 10 students in class for 3 hours a day.
    • Serve at our Community IT Training Centre as Office Secretary, Cyber attendant, IT Instructor or IT Technician.
    • Run HIV/AIDS sensitization seminars in schools, prisons and at Community Groups, etc
    • Train HIV/AIDS Educators at our Centre, in schools, prisons, at Community Groups, etc
    • Participate in a medical outreach as part of a team.
    • Train young social entrepreneurs in basic business set up and management skills.
    • Identify needy orphans especially those orphaned by AIDS in targeted communities for subsequent support.
    • And there can be other opportunities…

    Please fill out the following form so we can get to know more about you. All fields are required except the photo field:

      Title:

      First Name:

      Last Name:

      Gender:

      Date of Birth:
      Day: Month: Year:

      Your Address:

      Your Email:

      Cell Phone:

      Work Phone:

      Home Phone:

      Fax Number:

      Languages you speak:
      EnglishFrenchSpanishGermanOther

      Languages you write:
      EnglishFrenchSpanishGermanOther

      Do you Smoke?

      Religious Affiliation (if any):

      Your academic qualifications:

      Your professional experience, especially with development organisations:

      Details of the project you would like to work on:

      Your current state of Health:

      Have you ever been arrested/convicted for a crime? Please explain:

      How would you like to volunteer:
      OnlineOn-site in Buea, Cameroon

      When are you available to begin volunteering: Month: Year:

      For how long?

      Would you like to become a member of HINT:
      YesNoNot yet sure (need more more information)

      Upload Your CV:

      Upload a recent photo of you (Optional):

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      Fundraise for HINT

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      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.

      1. Someone contacts HINT and indicates the willingness to organize a meeting through the Food For Funds website.
      2. HINT gets in touch with additional details about hosting the event.
      3. The meeting takes place.
      4. 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.

      Procedure.

      1. Someone contacts HINT and indicates the willingness to participate.
      2. HINT acknowledges the willing to support her.
      3. Information about Potential Donor is uploaded on our website.
      4. ‘Potential Donor’ notifies his/her family members, friends, alumni, … about his/her plans to run for funds to support HINT and asks these people to support the project with donations as they are able to afford.
      5. The donor participates in the race.
      6. Funds are sent to HINT online via PayPal or deposited into our UK Bank account.

      If you do not want to eat or run in order to raise funds for HINT but you can do something (such as writing proposals and contacting potential donors or have any other ideas on how to raise funds for us, please contact us.

      How your donation will make a difference

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      We have listed below some of the projects for which you can make specific online donations. Thank you for considering to help us.

      Donate one or more Textbooks to our Community Library Project

      HINT has set up a library to help provide school textbooks to orphans and children from very poor families, so that they can still be able to get a good education. The children borrow the books at the begining of the year, use them and return to the library so other children can borrow. Over 100 children have been helped already.

      4,000FCFA (US$ 9.02 or GBP 5.03) will buy 1 textbook for 1 child.
      32,000FCFA (US$ 72.13 or GBP 77.17) will buy all 8 necessary textbooks for 1 child
      320,000FCFA (US$ 721.26 or GBP 402.26) will buy all 8 necessary textbooks for 10 children

      You can donate online via PayPal or if you want to make a bank transfer, contact us for our account details in the UK or Cameroon. Learn more about our education projects. Thank you.

      Help a poor youth gain IT Skills so that he/she can get a job and leap out of poverty.

      Help a poor youth gain IT Skills so that he/she can get a job and leap out of poverty. More than 800 have been trained since 2005.

      50,000FCFA (USD 105 or GBP 50) will train one unemployed youth,
      500,000 FCFA (USD 1,051.81 or GBP 500) will train 10.

      You can donate online via PayPal or if you want to make a bank transfer, contact us for our account details in the UK or Cameroon.  Learn more about our ICT projects. Thank you.

      Help a poor orphan, youth or widow with a loan or grant for a small business

      HINT provides micro loans to unemployed youths so that they can start of grow their small businesses. These businesses provide employment that improves the socio-economic lives of the poor. Pictured here is Joshua who received a 50,000 FCFA (USD 105 or GBP 50) loan from HINT and started a cassava farm 2 years ago. He is now able to support himself and looks forward to supporting his family from his growing business.

      Loans range from as small as 25,000 FCFA (USD 53 or GBP 25) to 100,000 FCFA (USD 200 or GBP 100)
      We do not only provide loans but also training as well so that our beneficiaries can better manage their businesses.
      Let us know if you can support many more entrepreneurs with a larger loan.

      You can donate online via PayPal or if you want to make a bank transfer, contact us for our account details in the UK or Cameroon.  Learn more about our economic development projects.Thank you.

      Support our efforts towards contributing to stopping HIV/AIDS by 2015.

      Part of our mission at HINT is to contribute to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. We do this by training HIV (Peer) Educators whwo are members of groups and who in turn will be able to educate their members. The trainees represent different groups of people in the society and the idea is to help them run HIV sensitisation seminars and campaigns among their own people.

      HIV/AIDS in Cameroon in 2005
      Adults aged 15-49 with HIV/AIDS = 470,000
      New HIV infections, 2006 and Adult HIV prevalence (%) = 5.4
      Women age 15-49 with HIV/AIDS = 290,000
      Children with HIV/AIDS = 43,000 AIDS orphans (ages 0-17) = 240,000
      AIDS deaths = 46,000

      It costs us about USD 400 to run a seminar for 25 educators and covers food, transportation, manuals, related material… Consider supporting these seminars.

      You can donate online via PayPal or if you want to make a bank transfer, contact us for our account details in the UK or Cameroon.  Learn more about our health projects. Thank you.

      Donate a computer to our Computers For Sustainabilty (CFS) Project.

      HINT currently depends on spontaneous individuals and organisations of good will to donate to its work. None of these individuals of organisations have decided to support us on a long term basis. HINT does not have any permanent source of funds to support it charitable work. This is very delicate as we must continue with the projects we’ve started as well as expand to other communities.

      Computers for Sustainability (CFS) has been designed to help establish a permanent and sustainable base of funds for the work of Helps International (HINT) in Cameroon and the rest of Africa.

      Summarily we will ship 400 refurbished Pentium Computers (minimum Pentum III) from the USA (or UK) to Cameroon. The computers will then be exchanged for cash. proceeds from the sales will enable us to continue to make other shipments while the proceeds will then be used to support our charitable work. This way, you support us once and we do not have to keep asking for support from you, year-in year-out. Your USD 50 or more can impact generations to come!

      It will cost us 20,000,000 CFA (XAF) (USD 41,797.28 or GBP 20,000) to ship 400 computers to Cameroon and sell them within a minimum of 6-8 months at the cost of 30,000,000 (USD 62,695.92 or GBP 30,000). 19,000,000 will be used to continue the business for the following year while 11,000,000 (USD 22,988.51) will then be used to support our projects annually.

      So, we need 800 people (or less if you donate more than one computer) who will give USD 50 each by January 31, 2008. Join us in improving the lives of the poor through technology. Place your own stone on the foundation.

      You can donate online via PayPal or if you want to make a bank transfer, contact us for our account details in the UK or Cameroon.  Learn more about our ICT projects. Thank you.

      Our partners for this project are:
      Hope Outreach International Ministries (HOIM), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
      InterConection, Seattle, USA

      Provide Counseling on HIV/AIDS and train Community HIV Educators

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      Opportunity Title: Nurses and Health Workers

      Start Date: On-going

      End Date: On-going

      Working Language: English

      Duration: flexible, based on volunteer’s availability

      Skills Needed: Trained Nurses and medical Officers. Working experience will be good.

      Job Description:

      • Provide counseling on HIV/AIDS to infected and affected person.
      • Train HIV trainers
      • Run seminars on HIV sensitisation in schools, prisons, community groups
      • Help with development and production of health material.
      • Volunteers in groups are accepted. Groups will run 3-7 days medical outreaches in remote areas.

      APPLY FOR THIS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

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