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HINT Now accepts Online Donations

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We are glad to announce that Helps International now has a new website built to enable online donations! Thanks to the wonderful skills of Joseph Talbot currently volunteering with HINT from England you can now support us conveniently through PayPal.

We are looking forward to setting up an online store in the near future. We will let you know as soon as this is completed.

We are inviting you to go to the online donation page to celebrate this with us by “Testing” the online donation service. Your donation will be much appreciated.

HINT admitted into Generous Giving Network

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Helps International has been admitted into the Generous Giving Network. What does this mean?

Generous Giving is a privately funded Christian ministry that seeks to encourage givers of all income levels—as well as pastors, church lay leaders and others—to experience the joy of giving and embrace a lifestyle of generosity, according to God’s word and Christ’s example. It was launched in 2000 by the Maclellan Foundation to stir a renewed, Spirit-led commitment to generosity among Christians. Generous Giving does not solicit donations.

Through the Generous Giving Marketplace (the world’s largest searchable database of faith-based funding opportunities …) verified and approved Christian churches and nonprofit ministries can post funding opportunities which can be viewed and possibly funded online by thousands of donors worldwide.

We can post as many projects as we want but we must pay US$ 45 per project for it to be visible to donors. This is where we need you to come in. If you will like to pay for one or more projects to be visible, please contact us. Thank you.

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.

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.

Joseph Talbot Trains his first group of 7 web designers

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Since after arriving from the UK, Joe has spent time researching and writing a web design training manual.

He conducted the first training session from October 30 to December 17, 2006 with 7 students in class. The students received a thorough foundation on HTML and CSS. With the knowledge, the students can then be able to design and maintain websites and this creates employment opportunities.

We need help with volunteers who can help develop curricula for the following advanced training modules (online or on-the-spot here in Buea):

  • Networking
  • Hardware Maintenance
  • Desktop Publishing
  • Photo editing

Access our volunteer application form to let us know if you can help.

It cost only 100,000 FCFA (US$ 200, GBP 101) to equip 10 unemployed youths with web design skills so they can do web design jobs for a living. You can donate online via PayPal to help train 10 youths. Thank you for your help.

About HINT

Our mission is to improve the well-being of the underprivileged in our community through education, skill development, and job creation.

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