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Helen Savage, arrives Buea from England

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Helen arrived on May 29, 2007 just in time to meet up with the send off ceremony in honour of Joseph and Heather Talbot that took place on May 30.

As a trained nurse with business background, Helen will continue with Heather’s work which involves training Community HIV Educators who will become effective HIV?AIDS educators in their communities. She will also be putting together a manual to provide training on small business set up and management. She then hopes to run a number of Small Business Seminars before returning to England. We will also be working on raising funds for our micro finance program.

Helen, welcome to HINT and we hope you will make use of every opportunity to share your knowledge, experience, and skills.

The Next ICT Training Session begins at HINT

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The next Computer & Internet Training session started at HINT’s new IT Centre today Monday July 02, 2007.

We offer 10 modules covering

  1. Computer Basics
  2. Microsoft Windows
  3. Internet (Using Internet Explorer and FireFox)
  4. Emailing (Using Internet Explorer and FireFox)
  5. Microsoft Word
  6. Microsoft Excel
  7. Microsoft Access
  8. Microsoft PowerPoint
  9. Web Design
  10. Adobe PhotoShop

You can still join this week if you want to or come in to take only some modules.

We are currently developing curricula for courses such as Networking, Desktop Publishing

We will like to express our gratitude to Pastor Stuart and Jendy NICE (CA, USA), Paul Fonkwo (CA, USA), John Zachary (CA, USA) for their part in helping to get this new centre running. Thank you and God will richly bless you, your families and your ministries.

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 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.

Michael and Margaret Asbury visit HINT from England

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Michael and Margaret Astbury (parents of Heather Margaret Talbot, currently volunteering with HINT in Buea, Cameroon) recently visited HINT and some parts of Cameroon November 20 to December 2 2006.

During their time here, we were able to show them around some of our projects including our ICT Training Centre in Bonduma, and a building we have already acquired to host a Community Health Centre and a Community Education Library. We also visited the three Pilot Schools we will be working with on the Library/Literacy Project.

Michael & Margaret Astbury attend Woodbridge Quay Church and you can contact them through the Church’s website to learn more about opportunities in Cameroon to serve or to support. You may also contact us directly for more information on volunteering and support.

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