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Sabrina Repa, UK

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Sabrina Repa, USAWelcome Sabrina.

We are pleased to finally see you here. Thanks for coming and giving of yourself tot help make a difference in people’s lives in our community. We hope you enjoy every single day of your volunteering experience.

Sabrina has come in from the UK and will join local nurses in conducting a number of medical outreaches and training Community Health  Educators who will go and help educate their “worlds”. We believe each one has a ‘world’ they can influence and it consists of the people you can reach and influence.

The program begins on June 10 with a 3-day Seminar to Train Health Educators on HIV. The Health Educators will be equipped with information to enable them educate their communities, families and the social groups to which they belong.

Following will be a 2-week outreach to freely screen the population of diabetes and hypertension. Services will be free, admission will be free and there will be free distribution of essential medicine. The first week is planned to take place at Bonduma village in Buea and the second week will take place in a Banana plantation camp in Muyuka.

Our budget for the entire program is CFA 1,462,250 (US$ 2,788.642). We need your help.

Here are some of our needs:

  • MONEY. Yes, we do need financial support please.
  • 10 Diabetes Testing Machines (Accu-Cheek (Aviva), Onetouch Ultra, BREEZE)
  • 800 test Strips
  • 4 Packets of Gloves.
  • 5 Packets of cottons
  • Needles for collection of blood for diabetes test.
  • Health Information leaflets (2000 copies)
  • Transport and food money for facilitators and volunteers.
  • For Hypertension, we need BP Machines (GIMA OR VISOCOR)
  • Training Manuals.
  • Projector and Computer.
  • Food and Transport for Participants.
  • Snacks for Presenters.
  • 3 boxes of Paracetamol 500mg
  • 3 boxes of Mebendazole
  • 2 boxes of Metronidazole 250mg
  • 3 boxes of Contrimoxazole 480mg
  • 3 boxes of Ibuprofin tablet 400mg
  • 2 cups of Vit B –Complex
  • 2 boxes Coartem tablet

If you can support financially or provide some of these material, please contact us. Thank you to all of you that have already supported Sabrina/us in this project. GBP 620 have been donated already.

Good News: Genesis Tinshu has been selected by the US Gov’t for the International Visitor Leadership Program

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usOn Monday March 8, 2010, Mr. Genesis G. Tinshu was contacted by the US Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon and informed that he had been selected for the very prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

The IVLP is the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program.  Launched in 1940, the IVLP is a professional exchange program that seeks to build mutual understanding between the U.S. and other nations through carefully designed short-term visits to the U.S. for current and emerging foreign leaders.  These visits reflect the International Visitors’ professional interests and support the foreign policy goals of the United States. More at http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/ivlp.html

Notable International Visitor Leadership Program alumni include people like:

  • Gorden Brown, Prime Minister of Britain
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
  • Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
  • Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
  • Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
  • Laurent Gbagbo, President of Cote d’Ivoir
  • Pratibha Patil, President of India
  • Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico
  • Tabare Vazquez, President of Uruguay,
  • Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan
  • Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister, Sweden
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
Laurent Gbagbo, President of Cote d’Ivoir
Pratibha Patil, President of India
Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico
Tabare Vazquez, President of Uruguay,
Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister, SwedenGordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingd

…just to mention a few of some of the notable alumni. You can see a list of these and other Chiefs of State and Current Heads of Government who are International Visitor Leadership Program Alumni on this page: http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/alumni.html

Mr. Genesis was selected in recognition of his outstanding leadership and impact that Helps International (HINT), an NGO that he founded in 2003 has made in the South West Region of the country and nationally too.

If you would like to contact Mr. Genesis Tinshu to congratulate him on his selection, his email address is genesis@hintonline.org

Computers have arrived

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We are happy to announce that the 40′ container of computers and accessories that left the UK on December 14 finally arrived Bonduma, Buea on Saturday January 30, 2010, ie just after 6.5 weeks.

It was extreme

Not many containers get around this area (not to talk of a 40′ for that matter) so it was quite a scene with so many neighbours and passersby who stood all around to watch and one could read amazement on their faces.

Since we could not afford to hire a lift to lift the container with the goods and place on the ground, we had to hire more than 33 young men who first of all emptied the container to the ground and after that had a small lift pull the empty container to the ground after a hard struggle. Once the empty container was down and properly placed, our more than 33 young men again had to pick up all the goods from the ground back into the container.

It was a long and tedious exercise but we made it finally

Back Packs 2009 supports 26 children and 7 teachers

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Back Packs is an annual project of Helps Intternational (HINT) during which we provide educational support to children who withtout such support will either not be in school of will retard in ttheir education because tthey do not have the basic educational supplies they need. In 2009, we supportted 26 children and 7 teachers most from Government Primary School Wottolo-Bonduma.

The support included most cash gifts to support the children’s needs including also schools textbooks to some children, several boxes of chalk to support the school and exercise books tot help teachers and writing their notes and preparing for their classes.

We are very thankful to those who supported Back Packs 2009 especially Joe & Hev Talbot and our other UK partners and friends.

You can view photos of the award ceremony at this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/hintphotos/BackPacks2009

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