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Valley Life Centre USA supports HINT

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Pastor Stuart with his wifeValley Life Centre, a Church in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) has indicated their commitment to supporting the work of HINT through web hosting. This was made know to us at HINT recently by Pastor Stuart Nice who is Senior Pastor of the Church.

As we train web designers, the need has always been hosting the websites done by our students. Valley Life Centre will pay for hosting these websites and the benefits of such generosity will flow back to HINT and to our students bringing about real social and economic change in the lives of our trainees.

Valley Life Centre is also helping to collect used or new technology equipment and any other useful items for subsequent shipment to Cameroon. To make a donation in-kind or cash to HINT, please contact Pastor Stuart Nice of Valley Life Centre.

A big thank you to Pastor Stuart and all the wonderful and lovely people at Valley Life Centre.

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

Tinshu raises funds in USA for HINT

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On his way to the USA, Tinshu met a cripple at the Douala International Airport and he was selling postcards. He bought a few to give to some friends and an idea came to buy a good quantity to use for fundraising. He then bought all of the man’s cards. What a joyous day it must have been for this young guy. Previously, Tinshu had also bought some crafts from the “Marche de Fleur” in Douala for the same purpose.

Amazingly, during his one-month stay in the USA, Tinshu raised over US$ 500 from the articles he sold during his time in the USA, plus a donation of US$ 2,500 from Anthony Bettencourt (one of his GSBI Mentors), plus more than US$ 3,000 in cash and in kind donated by Pastor Stuart Nice and His Church, Valley Life Centre, giving a total of about US$ 6,000.

Many thanks to all our generous donors in support of the work of HINT.

Genesis Tinshu selected to represent HINT at GSBI 2006 in USA!

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The Executive Director of Helps International (HINT), Tinshu Genesis was 1 of 17 World-class Social Entrepreneurs selected by Santa Clara University’s Centre for Science, Technology and Society (CSTS) for the 2006 Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program in partnership with Leavey School of Business, July 29-September 30, 2006 at Santa Clara University, USA. the prize...

Held on the beautiful campus of Santa Clara University, the GSBI provides an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. Presented by the University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Leavey School of Business Administration, the GSBI offers the unique context of a Jesuit university dedicated to social justice combined with leading resources of Silicon Valley. The invited social benefit entrepreneurs have demonstrated their commitment to applying technology to address urgent human needs throughout the world and have achieved recognition through the rigorous selection process of the prestigious Tech Museum’s Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity, the World Bank’s Development Marketplace, the City of Rome’s Global Junior Challenge competitions, or as Schwab Fellows..

See Photos of the 2006 GSBI.

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. .

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