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HINT to pticipate in Inveneo's ICIP Training Program in Cameroon

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HINT has been selected to participate in Inveneo’s ICIP Training Program in Cameroon.

Inveneo creates highly sustainable and affordable ICT infrastructure technologies designed specifically for organizations that provide vital services — education, health care, economic development — in remote and rural areas in the developing world.

Inveneo partners with local ICT companies/organisations in countries it serves around the world to provide skilled and cost effective installation and support services for clients. These ICT Partners are certified by Inveneo and available to sell. This program is called the Inveneo Certified ICT Partner (ICIP) program.

Upon completion of the training, sceduled to run from November 26-December 2, 2007, HINT will become one of Inveneo’s in-country certified partners.

Oxford University Donates to Helps International (HINT)

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the Wotolo IT Training CentreThe Learning Technologies Group of Computing Services at the University of Oxford has donated the sum of 500 British Pounds towards the establishment of the Wotolo IT Training Centre.

Because of a large influx of students into our IT Training Program, it became necessary to set up a Centre dedicated entirely to the training needs of the communities in which we work so as to decongest the current centre at Bonduma. The new Centre is only about 100 meters away from the current one and so eases management.

However, the total amount of money needed to completely setup the Centre is 3,800,000 FCFA (about $7,600)

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.

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