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Joanna Tilson arrives Buea from the USA

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Joanna Tilson arrived Buea last Sunday July 8, 2007 to work as a volunteer with Helps International (HINT).

Joanna is a librarian and will be working on the Community Library Project (CEL) initiated by HINT. CEL will provide thousands of school textbooks to hundreds (and eventually thousands) of orphans and needy children in and out of Buea.

She will also help with organization of Back Packs 2007 on September 8, 2007. Back Packs is an annual event during which HINT offers scholarships, books, and uniforms to orphans and needy children.

We will equally discuss setting up Helps International (HINT) as a 501(c)3 organization in the United States of America.

Joanna, you are welcome to the beautiful town of Buea, Cameroon and we hope you will enjoy your over two months stay here.

Fundraising in UK for HINT

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Mike and Margaret during theit visitTwo of HINT’s UK supporters, Michael and Margaret Astbury who recently visited Cameroon have organized a Coffee evening to raise funds for our Community Library Project here in Buea. About 80% of children in primary schools in Cameroon have 20% of the required text books while only about 20% have about 70% of the required text books. With this condition, learning for the children and teaching for the teachers become difficult. We have been trying to help this situation by buying books for about 50 children for the past 2 years.

Based on a research conducted by Heather Talbot (currently volunteering for HINT) we have decided to set up a library to help provide textbooks to school children in Cameroon. We will buy and stock a large database of the books the children need and give out the books to them at the beginning of each school year. They will use and return to the library for other children to use and the cycle goes on and on.

Each child needs approximately 8-10 textbooks and each costs averagely US$ 7 (GBP 3.6). The project will be formally launched in September 2007 when schools re-open in Cameroon.

About US $ 578.8 (GBP 308) has now been raised so far for this project. However, we need US $ 13,875.53 (GBP 7,191.63) to be able to set up a library with 2000 books to serve about 300 children in the 3 pilot schools we are working with. This is a very exciting and innovative program and we are inviting you to invest in a child’s life today. The fulfillment of this project means that parents can save more money for children’s’ health, nutrition, etc…

You can contact Mike and Margaret through the Quay Church website to join them in supporting childrens’ education in Africa.

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donate one or more books today to change a child’s life.

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.

The Joseph and Heather Talbot prize instituted

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John Onofio, winner of the award for 2006Back Packs is a program organised 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.

During Back Packs 2006, we instituted the Joseph and Heather Talbot Prize for Service to Humanity in honour of the Joseph and Heather Talbot, volunteers from London working for HINT who were present during the award ceremony. The prize was instituted to appreciate and promote their heart of sacrifice and voluntarism in Community projects.

The prize will be awarded each to a child in our community who has been noted by many to have a heart of a volunteer; one who is ready to serve and not look for a reward from men.

The 2006 prize was awarded to John Onofio of Government Primary School at Bonduma. John made sure that there was always clean drinking water at the HINT office. Each day, he would stop by at the office to collect bottles to fill with clean fresh water.

The prize has a monetary value of CFA 200,000 (US$ 400, GBP 200) attached to it. The money will be used to cater for a child’s entire education for the whole year including books, uniform, school fees, and health care.

We are now accepting donations for the 2007 prize. Donate online via PayPal.

Together we can help thousands of children and end up educating a whole generation

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.

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