Show your care for local business in Cameroon amid COVID-19

2020 has brought challenges for organizations like yours and ours. While lots of us continue to work hard for social change, fewer donations are received. As your sincere and long-standing partner organization, we would like to give you a thumb-up and will support you whenever you need us. Local innovators and entrepreneurs in Bamenda, Cameroon have been hit hard by COVID-19, on top of the political turbulence that has been happening. We have talked to a number of them during the past months and they told us one thing that they all have: fear. They are scared of not being able to feed their family, losing their homes, and catching the virus. The Action Lab for Development (ACTLAB) is helping them get out of this terrible situation, Our organization, ACTLAB, is running a fundraising campaign from June 8 - 26 to protect entrepreneurs in Bamenda, Cameroon and help them overcome the COVID-19 impacts. We are asking you, our partner, to kindly cross promote this campaign for us. You can: Post on your organization’s social media channels about the campaign, to show that your organization care about education for young entrepreneurs; Talk about this campaign in your upcoming newsletter to your subscribers, to show that you support innovative business ideas by entrepreneurs; Mention about this campaign on your website OR blog, as you recognize the help that local businesses need amid COVID-19, or Use any other mean to tell your network about this campaign. Here is the link to the campaign:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/actlab-covid-19-response/
Our goal is to reach $5,000, so that we can get the following equipments for those in need: (1) personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks; (2) soap and hand sanitizer; (3) bucket pipes to facilitate regular hand washing; and (4) the printing of COVID-19 prevention information posters and leaflets for dissemination. We trust that with your help and the good faith of your followers/subscribers, the $5000 goal will be reached and enterpreneurs in Cameroon will be protected for with the right equipment against COVID-19. Please e-mail us back if you would like to get involved. If you need us to supply you with the communications content that you can directly copy and paste from, we would be happy to provide those. Thank you, dear friend. Let’s support each other to get through this uncertain time with love, hope and optimism.  

Sincerely,
Cornelius Tawong President,
Action Lab for Development
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Great News! Socent in Cameroon

We are excited to announce that Action Lab for Development organization has been accepted into the MovingWorlds Global Network of skilled professionals, social enterprises, and corporate partners working together to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. By partnering with MovingWorlds, we are prioritizing the development of human capital within our team and making a commitment to accelerate progress towards our mission of to develop, support and look after entrepreneurs and creative economies towards local communities and business ecosystems. Join us in creating sustainable long-term impact by viewing our projects on the MovingWorlds platform here  https://movingworlds.org/rep/browse/project/1902

https://movingworlds.org/rep/browse/project/1931

Boost Education and life skills for 1500 youths

Summary This project will provide free vocational training to 1,500vulnerable girls, women and out of school youths who hails from poorest sections of our society, those internally displaced by the anglophone crisis which has escalated into an armed conflict and keeps worsening in English Regions of Cameroon by enhancing their employ-ability skills for self-sustainability, future prosperity, and independent. Project will provide startup equipment and support to enable them to start their own businesses. Challenge There is a high level of unemployment associated with poverty, disability, and gender discrimination in Cameroon of which a study statistic indicates that about70 percent of the population underemployed which is of great concern to the entire nation however much the government tries to put a brave face and train more youth on employ-abilit skills. English Speakers in bilingual Cameroon are the most affectedvictims since they can't defend themselves due to marginalization, they're the beneficiary Solution The project will provide skills and support for future economic independence and the opportunity to become part of a larger solution for their own families, community and in doing so we share in the development of their families and the entire community. We take the unequivocal position that there's no excuse for this deplorable situation, since marginalized English speaking girls, women and the vulnerable youth have the same innate intellectual, social and emotional capacities, as do all humans. Donate here: www.globalgiving.org/projects/boost-education-and-life-skillsfor-1500-children/

Fundraising Strategy Expert to Support Social Entrepreneurship in Cameroon

MovingWorlds and Action Lab for Development are joining forces to fight Poverty, Support Quality Education, Good Health and Well-being. We are excited to announce a new partnership with MovingWorlds.org, a matching and support network founded to help people volunteer their skills around the world – Go Experteering. By partnering with MovingWorlds, we are making a commitment to accelerate progress towards our mission to develop, support and look after entrepreneurs and creative economies towards local communities and business ecosystems. If you are interested in volunteering your skills with us please review our landing page on MovingWorlds https://movingworlds.org/organization/959 which shows our available opportunity. If we don’t have an opportunity for you, you can always use the MovingWorlds process to suggest ways that you can use your skills to support us. We use MovingWorlds to help manage our relationships with “Experteers” as it helps us lower our costs by making coordination, planning, and management much more efficient. In addition, MovingWorlds provides: 1. A hosted planning process so we can work together to plan a trip that works around your availability and skills 2. Resources for us to be effective hosts, and resources for you to help you plan for an exciting international trip 3. A real support team that can help answer questions or guide us in the planning process See our latest opportunity on MovingWorlds here: https://movingworlds.org/opportunity/959/1474 , and visit the MovingWorlds homepage to learn more

Cameroon Global Peace Ambassador 2018/2020

Action Lab

Jaime

Eduardo

Cornelius

Mark

Action Lab is an initiative started by Tobby Vision Computers and Jaime Andres Garcia. in order to provide tools, training, support, and further follow–up and development of local innovators and new entrepreneurial business ideas. , – Cornelius Tawong Remember… entrepreneurial business ideas Action Lab is an open organization based in Bamenda – Cameroon (Represented by Cornelius Tawong – CEO and Founder) founded in memory of Carlos Eduardo Díaz B.- a Colombian who found a TREASURE when arriving in Cameroon, engineer by profession who laid the foundation of the Entrepreneurship Course at Tobby Vision Computers Cameroon and developed its curriculum, Jaime Andres Garcia. – a Product and User Experience Designer based in Tokyo and New York and Phd student at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and Movingworlds, a Social Purpose Corporation (SPC) based in Seattle, Washington (Represented by Mark Horoszowski - CEO and founder). The purpose of Action Lab organization is realizing the full potential of local innovators — universal access to research and education to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity. Due to the rise of social media, local innovators with Action Lab Organization will no longer just be local, but a compromise between participants to build and strengthen the network by concentrating efforts towards four (4) key elements: Small, Local, Open, and Connected. Once the core is developed, we will start scaling out or scaling up. Action Lab organization will provide a range of workshops, experteers, tools, speakers, and activities geared towards supporting local initiatives, exchanging of ideas focus on creative innovation, building a network able to influence others and structure a rapport of knowledge sharing. If you want to join us, we are looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Cornelius Tawong and the Tobby Vision Computers Team

Action Lab: Checking with GCE Board for standards

On our entrepreneurship journey and Action Lab checking with The Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board for National standards and maintaining global standards as well.
Team 4:
Cornelius Tawong
Project Name: Updating Publication Computer Science Manual
Get a copy online here
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Computer-Educ…/…/9956639575

Action Lab: It All Starts From Local Transformation

Cornelius & Jaime

“Today, we must expect to be living this turbulence for a long time, in a double world where to realities live together in conflict: the old ‘limitless’ world that does not acknowledge the planet’s limits, and another that recognizes these limits and experiment with ways of transforming them into opportunities” (Manzini, Design, When Everybody Design, MIT Press, 2015).

During April and May, at Tobby Vision Computers, students and institution staff participated in an intense workshop focused on Creative Thinking applied to  Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Beyond global buzzwords and tasteless business design implementations, the core of the program to learn how to observe local issues, analyse them by evaluating and/or validating community assumptions, and work on them as a leading innovator, in pursue of value–added solutions and finally facing the challenge to become entrepreneurs by triggering new business model ideas for new or existing socio–economical sectors.

Beyond teaching, my goal in Cameroon as a Product Designer and a Creative Mentor was to absorb and be inspired by the local culture and the richness of its people, share global views through personal experiences and inspire others to act on detected pain points, issues that affect the community, and opportunities to improve life in all aspects.

I believe in a positive transformation for the community, for the city, for the country. I believe opportunities do not appear if people don’t search for t hem, I believe growth starts from having a common vision and working together towards that end. And for all these, I am completely sure all the fellows I have had the chance to meet and exchange ideas with during these days, they are more than ready to lead the way.

Action Lab is the first step of this transformation. Action Lab is an initiative started by Tobby Vision Computers and Jaime Garcia in order to provide tools, training, support, and further follow–up and development of local innovators and new entrepreneurial business ideas.

Everyone, absolutely everyone at this moment has been an innovator, despite skillsets, education, experience, creativity, status. What we look for with the Action Lab is to make everyone aware of these innovations, making them become a conscious creative act.

Jaime Garcia is an experienced Product Designer based in Tokyo, Bogota and New York, partner of MEANWHILE ASSOCIATES. Jaime earned his Master in Business Design in Milan, Italy, and is currently a PhD candidate at Keio University. His research focuses on the emotive value of design for mobile societies based on implementations of future scenarios and the materialization of new technologies. Jaime Garcia engages in creative mentoring and is an integral part of multidisciplinary projects across the globe. His past clients include major brands such as British American Tobacco, Hewlett Packard, and Sony.

Living as an Experteer and working at Tobby Vision Computers Cameroon

Experteer office

Willing to help us as an experteer and make your own unforgettable personal experience by helping people, the following information could be useful:

Experteer sleeping room

Experteer shared living space

We have accommodation in clean apartment with bathroom and a shared kitchen and parlour.

Office, supermarkets can be reached within walking distance or you can use a taxi.

We will pick you up at the airport.

You should just consider that it takes some time to get into a different life.

ENAM Launched - Candidates of English Expression Only

Government has announced a special competitive Exams for Cameroonians of English-speaking expression into the National Advanced School of Magistracy-ENAM. According to the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform Michel Ange Angouing, who issued a press release, the two special competitive examinations targets the recruitment of 50 pupil magistrates  and 30 student registrars  of English expression for the 2017-2018 academic year . It specifies that potential candidates must be at least 17 years of age and not more than 32 years old on 1 January 2018. 

 Here below is the press release :

Man and the evironment

Environment hazards, environmental conservation tips, animal extinction

WOW!!! SOMETHING NEW IS HAPPENING AGAIN IN BAMBUI–TUBAH WITH A VOLUNTEER THIS TIME FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO CAMEROON

Speech from Carlos Eduardo explaining his mission to Cameroon

Who is this experteer/volunteer and why is he in Cameroon? Carlos Eduardo Botia Diaz is a Colombian Industrial Engineer, graduated from the University of Colombia (5 years) with experience in multinational companies in Financial Planning, Logistics and Global Implementation of new business platforms like SAP and Vistex. He is passionate about digital marketing tools, the internet network scope for all necessities of life with experience managing Google Adwords Advertising and as a Digital Marketing Consultant for businesses in Colombia.
He is Finance Specialist, graduated from Sabana University (1.5 years) and has self knowledge, read books and has done many online courses.
He relinquished his duty as Sales Director of Artecma SAS Bogota, Colombia on the 5th of September 2016 before leaving for Tobby Vision Computers Bambui, Cameroon on the 14th of the same month to do experterring/volunteering. This thanks to the American Non Governmental Organization – Movingworlds and its experteering platform that has made this dream come true.
Before his prestigious career position as Sales Director at Artecma SAS in Colombia, he previously worked as Independent Entrepreneur from January 2013 to December 2016. He has also held the following prestigious positions in renowned international companies:
·    Partner Operations Manager (Finance) with Lexmark International – an international company that deals with the management of Print software, hardware warranty, Repair services, Enterprise software services and professional services.
·    Logistic Specialist Executive in Consumer Products and Commercial Distribution Specialist with Coca Cola FEMSA S. Bogota Colombia.
Carlos Eduardo Botia Diaz holds a degree from the University of Sabana specialising in Finance. He also doubles a Master’s degree as Industrial Engineer from the University of Nacional in Colombia.
    Carlos Eduardo Botia Diaz has come to Cameroon to empower Cameroonians through Tobby Vision Computers institute in Entrepreneurship, Fund Raising, Business Strategy, Training, Coaching and teaching. He will be holding workshops/training with Cameroonian students which will include basic skills as well as key elements on how Cameroonian students can start their own businesses. He will also be giving some hands on elements to keep Cameroonian students engaged and help them directly apply the learning to their future.
During his three months stay in Cameroon he would also develop an entrepreneurship curriculum with goal to be integrated into the current curriculum of Tobby Vision Computers institute and also create a new course. He will be training the staff of Tobby Vision Computers institute intensively and the future teacher of entrepreneurship to make sure the knowledge he imparts to Cameroonians will be sustainable after he leaves.

Popping of Champaign by Rev. Macaulay to launch the project

The Exchange of Flags  between the Director of Tobby Vision Computers institute and Experteer from Colombia.

Carlos Eduardo explaining his mission to Cameroon to Global Educational network interns – Jesica Albers, Sophie Stegarward and CEO Mendel Foundation Cameroon

The Glorious Voices of Jesus Sanctuary at Occasion

Refreshment after the project launch

Offer to Experteer by Manju (Student)
 Bouquet of flowers

End of ceremony with Experteer, Director of Tobby Vision Computers Institute,
                    Mendel Foundation CEO & Interns and Rev./Mrs Macaulay

Experteer, Director and Staff of Tobby Vision Computers Institute