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I suggest you have a quick word with someone in the overseas aid business. ITDG, OXFAM Save the Children. They may be able to point you in a useful direction. I used to work for ITDG and mud hut make me nostaglic. I could contact them if you want. Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Brough" <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LUG] Help please Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:47:44 +0100 > > >Hello Tom, > > >Good day and sorry to delay in reply to mail. > > >How are you, family and colleagues, hope all are fine concerning health. > > >Its not quiet easy with us, as continue offer his voluntary > course lecture. From the on set, Stefan, intended spending a >month > with us, but due to task unaccomplished he decided to extend his > stay for two more months. He traveled for the >national capital, > yesterday to book another flight. > > >I having be struggling for all this while to raise some little > finances that can enable us add more to the exist ones-/PC per > >seven trainee for about 6 hours/. > > >Equally, the program with the iwayafrica partners in Cameroon > sound interested, as their initial cost rang between >500.000 - > 700.000frsCFA, supplying the basics equipments (refutable if we > stop operation) and a monthly band charges >of 10.000frsCFA. > > >As mention at the end of your last mail, we need your assistant > and that of friends in any form available. > > >Hope all is moving fine in preparation for your trip to the Phi. > One does expect you in Cameroon in the near future. > > >You browse our new website, built by us. Here below are some of > our students WebPages, launch under goecities. Just >about 11 of > them were able to launch their page during our next week visit to > the Community Multimedia Center cyber, >due to slow line. Here > attach to this mail is a photo at the cyber where only a few > students were allow to work, so as to >enable fast lines. > > >Thanks for concern and hope to read from you. > > >Emmanuel Fonyuy S. > > >Director. > > __ > > _www.geocities.com/empresspattie_ > > _www.geocities.com/franky_v2003_ > > > This is a plea for help that I can no longer ignore. Stefan (a > Debian man from Germany) was kind enough to "babysit" a small (but > very heavy) box that I sent to him containing, 2 x 10Mbps hub, > NIC's and some patch cables, as well as a thick introductory book > to GNU/Linux, all the way to the Cameroon. Frankly, however, I > feel like I have cheated them ! > > I have exchanged many emails with Emmanuel and he is a honourable > and highly educated man of vision struggling to educate his peers > and the future generations in ICT using 486's in mud huts. If you > don't believe this point google at the Techcefacos Artco group web > pages. > > I have a source of recyclable computers and am willing to find the > finances for transport. However as yet I have not been able to > secure a reliable / reasonably priced transportation company. If > anyone out there in the DCGLUG community (or wider) knows of a > reliable transportation company that can deliver to the door in the > Cameroon, then please let me know. > > He is contemplating renting (second hand) computers, at what I > understand to be highly inflated rates because market dynamics of > supply and demand in the Cameroon. I on the other hand can pick up > half a dozen system units without having to think about it. All I > need now is the haulage firm to get units from me to Emmanuel its > as simple as that. > > It may only be 2 or 3 system units at best, but to them any help > will be appreciated however small. So please if you know someone in > the haulage industry that will look favourably on this project and > is reliable and resonable . Please, please, please let me know. > > Tom. > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html