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Helen Savage comes to the end of her volunteer time at HINT

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Helen Savage has come to the end of her volunteer time at HINT. She departs to England this Friday.

She has impacted the lives of many people here through her HIV/AIDS Education Seminars.

You are invited to stop by at our home (behind the chief’s compound at Wotolo (Bonduma)) tomorrow at 6:00pm to say goodbye to her.

Helen, your time at HINT has been very rewarding and enjoyable to all of us here. Thank you for the enormous sacrifices of your time and the resources you have made to move HINT one more step ahead in our community development efforts.

We will always remember you.

Back Packs 2007 & Buea Community Library Project (BCLP)

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On September 8, 2007, HINT will provide education Support in the form of Scholarships, textbooks, uniforms to about 100 over 50 orphans and children from poor home in and around Buea. On that same day, we will also formally launch the Buea Community Library Project (BCLP).

BCLP focuses on providing school textbooks to orphas and children from poor homes so that they can still get a good education. Joanna Tillson, a volunteer from the USA has worked very hard for the past 5 weeks to put all this program together.

We are currently accepting donations to these and other children. CFA 25,000 (US$ 53) will buy all textbooks for 1 primary 6 child in a year; CFA 50,000 (US$ 106) will provide for 2 children, and so on. Go here to read more and learn how to donate.

Two volunteers depart, two volunteers arrive

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Joseph and Heather TALBOT returned to England on June 7, after close to 12 months volunteering for HINT. Thank you Joe & Hev for your time and resource investment at HINT. Meanwhile, on May 29 and July …, Helen Savage from England and Joanna Tilson from the USA respectively arrived Buea to volunteer at HINT. Welcome, Helen and Joanna, and we hope you have an exciting time at HINT, in Buea, and in Cameroon.

We have very exciting volunteer opportunities and if you want to volunteer read more here.

HINT-HED educates over 200 people on HIV/AIDS at Mile 16

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On August 1, 2007, HINT-HED (HINT HIV Educators Group) educated more than 200 people at Mile 16 during an outreach organized by Commonwealth Students Union at the University of Buea.

Led by Helen Savage from the UK volunteer the group, at the LEFEM hall at mile 16 carried out a PowerPoint projection on HIV/AIDS followed by a thrilling drama.

The many questions asked at the end of the training session proved their quest for more knowledge about this pandemic.

See photos of the training session here.

Joanna Tilson arrives Buea from the USA

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Joanna Tilson arrived Buea last Sunday July 8, 2007 to work as a volunteer with Helps International (HINT).

Joanna is a librarian and will be working on the Community Library Project (CEL) initiated by HINT. CEL will provide thousands of school textbooks to hundreds (and eventually thousands) of orphans and needy children in and out of Buea.

She will also help with organization of Back Packs 2007 on September 8, 2007. Back Packs is an annual event during which HINT offers scholarships, books, and uniforms to orphans and needy children.

We will equally discuss setting up Helps International (HINT) as a 501(c)3 organization in the United States of America.

Joanna, you are welcome to the beautiful town of Buea, Cameroon and we hope you will enjoy your over two months stay here.

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