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At the NGO Internet Fiesta 1999 preceding Earth Day in Viennas Austria Center last year, we had a very special visitor among the many NGO representatives: Wendi Losha from Cameroon, representing  Rural Women and Youth groups in Bamenda.

We decided this is a completely new way to help people develop their own way of life supported by global communication. Wendi collected pictures to show us the people who are in need of computers and the reasons for this.  If you want to help, send me mail.

Wendi is here in Austria currently, studying at the EPU in Schlaining. She even brought the Import Declaration with her!

Franz Nahrada





We represent 4000 members.
We actually need computers.
We wish to communicate with all of you in Europe and America.
We want to be on the Internet.

Thanks immensly








This is me, Wendi, with my friend Lonla Helen, who is my assistant and Vice-President.








These are the members of the executive Comitee in the "office", when we received your letter.
We do not even have a typewriter there, but we did the answer somewhere else!






Donga Mantung Division Meeting

(annotated by Franz Nahrada:)
"That reminds me ...
They also wait one week to send
or receive an email
That is why we thought it is a good idea to support them!"




M'Mouck Cultural and Development group.

We are very serious, we want to expand our agricultural activities. We are doing a lot of cultivation of Irish Potatoes. We want to process the potatoes so they can last a little bit longer.
So much food is lost because we cannot keep it fresh.
We do not have freezers, nothing to preserve.
So we must eat immediately or throw away. People in the market wait until we are tired and we want to go home and we sell it at any price ... :-)




Women in Baba One Village ...

- a group demonstration farm of about 10 hectars in size. The farm belongs to the members of Actwid Kongadzem. When they go to work, the distance to the farm is far, so we built a farmhouse to stay overnight during the periods of work.
"We have finally made a survey to know which groups of women and youths woulneed the computers in Cameroon for a start. There would be much more needed in the next 1 year as a result of Governments Rural Telephone system network and the Privatisation of the Cameroon tele-communication network system."
(Wendi)




Bamenda central ...

We will equally like to introduce the "Internet Cafe" in our head office in Bamenda.
That will be a training center, then we will train the others.
Then we will have a library there, where we can go and ask all questions - and the world will answer.
We want to be messangers of peace in our community. We want to contribute to the peace culture around the world. We think about our contribution.
There are many conflicts in our society. We want to solve problems in real life, not in politics. We are Non-Governmental, in the middle of society. Politicians live on the conflicts in society, they cannot resolve them.


Bui Division ...

the executives meet at the Bamenda office.
We had a meeting of all the presidents. The issue was fertilizing and farming inputs.
The computers would eventually be distributed to 10 village Women/Youth groups with fairly good communication facilities. These groups are those whose activities need commication with other parts of the World as they seek international market for the sales of their traditional craft, foods stuff like Rice, Potatoes, Yam, Maize  and Vegetable




Boyo Division ...

With these machines available, we can communicate with other people in developed countries such as yours (Europe and America) and other parts of Africa who may need our products. Moreso, with the lack of storage facilities for our Products, faster and ready access to market can be gotten only through good communication network. In this case, these computers would play a major job for us as poor village women and youth and the community in general.





We are the Actwid Kongadzem women of Nkwen village ...

Inter-networking between the local village groups themselves & communicating national programmes and activities through the internet and e-mail would help facilitate better co-ordination of all our local village women and youth groups here in Cameroon as well as ease assessement of their immediate needs for urgent funding We have a lot of knowledge to distribute and to share. Computers will ease the task.







In Sop village ...

dancing and rejoicing with our youth that our cry for Computers is finally going on the web ...






We are the men and the women of the 21st century so we need your help.
Our youth are not satisfied with the place and some a trying to move out. They come home from school with their certificates and they have nothing to do. They feel like punished after trying so hard.
We need to take our destiny into our own hand. We need to bring computers to the places where we live, so we can unfold our potential and improve life ...
The reality is bitter: we are accustomed that everything comes easy. And if it does not come, we loose hope.

We must create the New African Dream.

Get us connected!