REPORT ON THE YAOUNDE AND TIKAR TRIP

Michel and Chanceline left Limbe at 6:00 am on the 22th of June 2010 for Yaounde with the school bus, we arrived at 3:00pm and at 4pm we were at the Symalen air port to pick up friends like ISSA, RIE SHONTEL and JUNNY. We had super at Dr. George's house. We spend the night at brother manase's house. On the 23th of June we visited the Musume in Yaounde and had a brief meeting with the head of the faculty of art in the University of Yaounde I Michel Pauli, Ngainku Chanceline, Issa Nayphaga,Junny Sabom, Rie Shontel On the 24th of June in Yaounde I University for Presentation. Chanceline presented how a computerised database can be essential for artistic creation, Rie did some practical work with the 17students, they started by producing sounds like zam and zom Rie move on to art like her grand mother and her mother.

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Issa presented the work of art as he made the people to understand that when we talk of images in the work of art, we think of social works, creations and receptions, beside he said images are created to race awareness. Junny sabom presented how we can treat people with respect, she also made the people to understand that the media is dangerous but we have to decide, she went ahead to present an article which condem the art of smooking cigarette.Michel on his part presented the low power computers and the solar energy.

On the 25th of June we left for Nditam, we were in Nditam for nine days Nditam is a small village in the central province of cameroon about 900km away from the central town, 80 percent of the inhabitance are muslems,the population is about 6thousands inhabitance, the greatest part of the population are women, followed by children them men.

We were in Nditam for many days, Ndtiam is made up of many quater such as BAR, YOUNG, MIENGWE, BONGWO, HAUSA we saw the pigmees and many other people living in very poor conditions, that is to say one primary school for the old area, Hospitals which have been abandont because of lack of medical personels and lack of drugs, no Market, no Electricity and the conditon of the road is not the best especially during the rainny seasons. Nditam is one ot the Tika villages, other Tika villages include Ndinga, Bambe, Yamokwo, Yambedi, Ngandi, Fulbe, Nyadingi.

In Tikar we spend most of our time in Nditam, on the 25th of June 2010, all the tikar people came to Nditam because there was a campaign organised by Dr George to give consultation, treatment, medications and operation to this people, we also siezed the opportunity to present our project of solar panels and low power computers. Many people were interested in the Solar Panels and wanted to buy but michel told them that he is not selling it but it is for a social project. Because of lack of Electricity in this area, michel decided to install four solar panels and one batteries to be used by the community, Michel said if the women of this community want to do something in the night they can come together where this panels are install and do it or if the children want to red their book they can also come and red with energy store in the batteries.On the night of this day Dr George and his team operated 20 people with different illnesses. Two hours before the start of the operation, Michel, Chanceline, Issa Install solar system in the room where the operation was to take place. The solar batteries which were charge were connected to solar bulbs to give light to this room. Every body was happy with michel for bringing this technology to save the lives of the people during this operation.

Still on the 25th of June 2010, Michel install low power computers with solar energy. Michel made the indigens to understand that we can not only study computer by using electricity from SONEL but we can also use solar energy to study computer. It was very interested especially in Ngambe Tika when people told us that they have never seen solar panels, low power computers, they have also never seen the linux operating system, This people were from the city and had realy never seen or heard about this things so Michel told them that it is not only moving from a bush area to the city to see new things but people can also move from city to a bush area to discover new technology. Michel also made them to understand that solar energy would be economical for them since they would not have to pay bills every month, but the energy would come from the sun.

We also visited the chief of Ngambe Tikar who invited his indigens to come and benefit from the knowledge of solar panels and low power computers. In Ngambe Tikar we spend the night in the house of the Vice President for HITIP who took good care of us.

Tikar is a wonderful place, a place to be, we ate a lot of fufu corn and bush meat in Tikar, the people are welcoming, respectful and like to work and share together.

During our stay in Tikar, the indigens took great care of us, they offered us break fast, lunch and supper which was always at the chief's house, Chief Ngandi Seidou V, they offered us palm wine and sweet drinks.

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Hello Chanceline,

Great comment about the trip... We\