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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.

Sample Volunteer Opportunities

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Here is a list of sample volunteer opportunities. This is not a complete list. As a community Development NGO, we work in a variety of domains and can help design a program that meets your skills and training so that you make the most of your time while workingt with us. Simply let us know what you are intested in:

  • 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.

Joe & Hev Talbot visit again

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Joseph & Heather Talbot who were our very first international volunteers have visited us again.

They arrived Cameroon on April 10, 2009 for a two-week visit.

This time, they are not volunteering but just visiting their many friends that they made while in Cameroon.

We also want to thank them for a donation of 200 pounds from Heather’s Church, Kidlington Baptist Church to support our School PCs Project.

Thank you Joe & Hev, also for your donation of a refurbished pentium 4 Laptop badly needed for our work here. Thank you to  Kidlington Baptist Church for their continues support of our community impact efforts.

Computers 4 Africa donates a 20ft container of computers to HINT

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Computers 4 Africa (C4A), a charity organised based in the UK has donated a 20ft container of computers to Helps International to support its School PCs Project.

We look forward to receiving the container towards the end of May 2009.

In the meantime, we will like to express our appreciation to Computers 4 Africa through its Executive Director Mr. Cook and especially to Miss Faith Dziruni who has worked hard behind the scenes, putting together the container and also especially to the volunteers who worked hard to collect and load the container.

We currently and urgently need financial support to transport the container from the UK to Buea.

Download the donatiton Certificate here.

Read more about the SchoolPCs 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…

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