Volunteers needed for Zang Tabi Community Project
Volunteers needed for Zang Tabi-Meta Community Projects
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Leader and clan head of Meta cland is inviting all and actively seeking, Medical doctors, teachers, engineers, scientists, technicians and business professionals to come grow economic and social development in the region.
CONTACT US at zangtabi@gmail.com
:Leader and clan head of Meta cland is inviting all and actively seeking, Medical doctors, teachers, engineers, scientists, technicians and business professionals to come grow economic and social development in the region.
CONTACT US at zangtabi@gmail.com
Forward ever, backward never.
Good job Giddy and friends of Zang Tabi Vaillage for your efforts to batter the lives of the villagers in Zang Tabi village in Cameroon, Africa. Critics, skeptics and cynics abound but such is always the case when you start a gigantic project. For internet communication to be translated into actions, support from cameroonian, non cameroonian and military communities is needed. It is time for all and sundry to step up to the plate and thank God for the blessings bestowed on us and to externd a hand of support to those who need it most.
Victor Youmbi.
Victor Youmbi.
THANK YOU TO OUR SOLDIERS OUT THERE
Telling our Soldiers thank you is something we believe is a symbol of gratitude we can all embraced:
Few Zang Tabi family members of MECUDA-USA community base organization giving thank you to our Soldiers out there. We think back to the last time Gideon is gone and we see them off at the airport as well as seeing the rest of the members of the armed services in uniform. Did you want to thank them for their service, but didn’t know how to make the approach, or wondered if you should at all? It’s a problem many civilians may have. ZATACUDA –MECUDA-USA is making it a mission to inform its members, community and the African Community in USA about the importance of saying “thank you,” to members of the military by spreading the message of thank you, gratitude as a way portraying our values as well as creating an awareness in the importance of just been able to take about two seconds off our busy schedule just to say “thank you” to our men and women in uniform. We know most soldiers leave their jobs and their families behind for months at a time. They voluntarily return to active duty to serve, tours of duty. They miss birthdays, anniversaries and holidays with their loved ones. They protect our country and our way of life. They deserve our gratitude. We say thank you. Our hearts are with you. Saying thank you is a way of showing gratitude, it is our little effort we take very serious. We consider it’s a mission we love to engage as many people as possible in our community to support and request all to join in offering a little gesture of thanks to men and women of the military. This is our civilian salute. No words necessary. We say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Few Zang Tabi family members of MECUDA-USA community base organization giving thank you to our Soldiers out there. We think back to the last time Gideon is gone and we see them off at the airport as well as seeing the rest of the members of the armed services in uniform. Did you want to thank them for their service, but didn’t know how to make the approach, or wondered if you should at all? It’s a problem many civilians may have. ZATACUDA –MECUDA-USA is making it a mission to inform its members, community and the African Community in USA about the importance of saying “thank you,” to members of the military by spreading the message of thank you, gratitude as a way portraying our values as well as creating an awareness in the importance of just been able to take about two seconds off our busy schedule just to say “thank you” to our men and women in uniform. We know most soldiers leave their jobs and their families behind for months at a time. They voluntarily return to active duty to serve, tours of duty. They miss birthdays, anniversaries and holidays with their loved ones. They protect our country and our way of life. They deserve our gratitude. We say thank you. Our hearts are with you. Saying thank you is a way of showing gratitude, it is our little effort we take very serious. We consider it’s a mission we love to engage as many people as possible in our community to support and request all to join in offering a little gesture of thanks to men and women of the military. This is our civilian salute. No words necessary. We say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Invitation to join IAVA
Welcome to IAVA!
From:
Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA (mail@iava.org)
Sent:
Sat 8/01/09 10:53 AM
To:
Giddyticha@hotmail.com
Dear Gideon,
Thank you for joining IAVA. Thanks to the continued support of folks like you, IAVA has become the nation’s fastest growing veterans group. There are exciting times ahead, and we’re happy to have you involved!
IAVA is the nation's first and largest organization dedicated to improving the lives of troops and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Founded in 2004 by Iraq veterans, IAVA is a young, dynamic nonprofit with over 125,000 Member Veterans and Civilian Supporters in 50 states. We're winning major battles in Congress (like the new “Post 9/11” GI Bill), supporting veterans around the country, and making national headlines daily (like CNN, New York Times and NPR).
We are leading the way to build a lasting movement for our new generation of veterans.
Now that you’re an IAVA Member Veteran, here are some other things you can do right now to get more involved:
Join our Social Network: Share your experiences with other OIF/OEF vets and connect with others who know where you’re coming from. Join today at CommunityofVeterans.org.
Have fun! IAVA events in the past year have included a 4th of July celebration aboard the USS Midway; a free concert with Ludacris just for OIF/OEF vets; and, backstage passes to the nationwide Mayhem Tour with Disturbd and Slipknot. We also have regular free offers for our member veterans. These range from exclusive panels with some of the world’s foremost leaders and thinkers on current affairs, to concert tickets and film screenings.
Learn about the new GI Bill: Find out what the new GI Bill means for you.
Continue your service at home: Get connected with IAVA at the local level, and give back to your community. Click here to learn more.
Get connected: Click here to join us on Facebook and MySpace
Stay informed: Take advantage of our latest events and offerings. Visit our home page on a regular basis.
Help build the movement: There is strength in numbers, so invite your friends to join IAVA. We’ve included some text at the bottom of this email that you can use.
If you have questions or want to do more, email membership@iava.org.
Thank you for your continued support of IAVA. Sincerely,
Paul
Paul RieckhoffIraq VeteranExecutive Director & FounderIraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)
P.S. Think your friends would want to join IAVA? Send them this message:
“I just joined IAVA, the nation’s first and largest organization for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Membership is free! Get free tickets to concerts, movie screenings and network with other OIF/OEF vets. Sign up at www.iava.org/membership“
From:
Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA (mail@iava.org)
Sent:
Sat 8/01/09 10:53 AM
To:
Giddyticha@hotmail.com
Dear Gideon,
Thank you for joining IAVA. Thanks to the continued support of folks like you, IAVA has become the nation’s fastest growing veterans group. There are exciting times ahead, and we’re happy to have you involved!
IAVA is the nation's first and largest organization dedicated to improving the lives of troops and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Founded in 2004 by Iraq veterans, IAVA is a young, dynamic nonprofit with over 125,000 Member Veterans and Civilian Supporters in 50 states. We're winning major battles in Congress (like the new “Post 9/11” GI Bill), supporting veterans around the country, and making national headlines daily (like CNN, New York Times and NPR).
We are leading the way to build a lasting movement for our new generation of veterans.
Now that you’re an IAVA Member Veteran, here are some other things you can do right now to get more involved:
Join our Social Network: Share your experiences with other OIF/OEF vets and connect with others who know where you’re coming from. Join today at CommunityofVeterans.org.
Have fun! IAVA events in the past year have included a 4th of July celebration aboard the USS Midway; a free concert with Ludacris just for OIF/OEF vets; and, backstage passes to the nationwide Mayhem Tour with Disturbd and Slipknot. We also have regular free offers for our member veterans. These range from exclusive panels with some of the world’s foremost leaders and thinkers on current affairs, to concert tickets and film screenings.
Learn about the new GI Bill: Find out what the new GI Bill means for you.
Continue your service at home: Get connected with IAVA at the local level, and give back to your community. Click here to learn more.
Get connected: Click here to join us on Facebook and MySpace
Stay informed: Take advantage of our latest events and offerings. Visit our home page on a regular basis.
Help build the movement: There is strength in numbers, so invite your friends to join IAVA. We’ve included some text at the bottom of this email that you can use.
If you have questions or want to do more, email membership@iava.org.
Thank you for your continued support of IAVA. Sincerely,
Paul
Paul RieckhoffIraq VeteranExecutive Director & FounderIraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)
P.S. Think your friends would want to join IAVA? Send them this message:
“I just joined IAVA, the nation’s first and largest organization for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Membership is free! Get free tickets to concerts, movie screenings and network with other OIF/OEF vets. Sign up at www.iava.org/membership“
Nomination for CNN Hero
From:
CNN.Prog.Replies@cnn.com
Sent:
Sat 7/25/09 10:06 PM
To:
Giddyticha@hotmail.com
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Thank you for submitting a nominee to be considered for the 2009 CNN Hero award. This email is your confirmation that we have received your submission.
The phenomenal success of this program is the direct result of people like you – people who care enough to understand the impact being made on others because of the heroes that live around them, and then take the time to make us aware. For that we are sincerely grateful.
Keep your browser pointed to www.cnn.com/Heroes for news and information about our previous and upcoming CNN Heroes and click “Get Emails” to sign up for our Newsletter for updates and exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage as we search the globe for the 2009 Hero of the Year.
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Thank you for submitting a nominee to be considered for the 2009 CNN Hero award. This email is your confirmation that we have received your submission.
The phenomenal success of this program is the direct result of people like you – people who care enough to understand the impact being made on others because of the heroes that live around them, and then take the time to make us aware. For that we are sincerely grateful.
Keep your browser pointed to www.cnn.com/Heroes for news and information about our previous and upcoming CNN Heroes and click “Get Emails” to sign up for our Newsletter for updates and exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage as we search the globe for the 2009 Hero of the Year.
On Facebook? Check out the CNN Heroes fan page! Each week, we’ll post stories about a new CNN Hero – plus exclusive photo albums, stories and videos you’ll ONLY see there! Join our fan page and invite your friends to be part of our growing Facebook community.
Regards,
The 2009 CNN Heroes Team
ZATACUDA-USA PROJECT SUBMITTED TO MECUDA-USA PROJECT COMMITTE
Fri 7/10/09 3:32 PM
Dear MECUDA-USA Project committee, As requested,
Hope this email will meet you in good spirit and health. As requested, as requested Please find the link to the Zang-Tabi Water project in progress below and this is on going progress report and followup to the presentation we made at the California MECUDA Convention in July 2007 . We request $3000 financial assistance from MECUDA-USA to help complete the project that will enable some 1200 house holds provide safe clean drinking water to its people as well as some 300 school children in Zang-Tabi village and beyond. http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in progress . Little history: This project amongst others was initiated at the request of the people of Zang-Tabi village who have not had access to safe clean drinking water since inception and we considered this a fundamental human right issue that deserves our attention. We the Zang Tabi children in California have initiated since an aware program called Zang-Tabi Awareness Program (ZAP) since 11 April 2009 aim is to draw must financial support and partnerships with communities institutions organizations in and around the United States and we are determine to continue our our awarness program in pursue of the rebuliding process in the Meta villages as well as the entire Meta Clan at large..believe it, we all can join hands and help our brothers and sisters back home as sons and daughters of same clan. . Hope that MECUDA-USA will help support the completion of this project that will enable some 1200 house hold provide safe clean drinking water to its people as well as some 300 school children in Zang-Tabi village and beyond. These children continue to suffer from water born disease such as cholera, malaria..., etc as a result of drinking unsafe water since inception of the village. please find here http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in please find here http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in please find here http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in Let me know if you have any quesitons.v/rGiddyZATACUDA-USA PROTOCOL/PUBLICITY SECTHIS DOCUMENT AND ANY FILES TRANSMITTED HEREWITH, ARE INTENDED SOLELY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL(S) ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. IF YOU ARE NOT THE ADDRESSEE INDICATED IN THIS MESSAGE (OR RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERY OF THIS MESSAGE TO SUCH PERSON) YOU MAY NOT REVIEW, USE, DISCLOSE OR DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE OR ANY FILES TRANSMITTED HEREWITH. IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE CONTACT THE SENDER BY REPLY E-MAIL AND DELETE THIS MESSAGE AND ALL COPIES OF IT FROM YOUR SYSTEM.
Dear MECUDA-USA Project committee, As requested,
Hope this email will meet you in good spirit and health. As requested, as requested Please find the link to the Zang-Tabi Water project in progress below and this is on going progress report and followup to the presentation we made at the California MECUDA Convention in July 2007 . We request $3000 financial assistance from MECUDA-USA to help complete the project that will enable some 1200 house holds provide safe clean drinking water to its people as well as some 300 school children in Zang-Tabi village and beyond. http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in progress . Little history: This project amongst others was initiated at the request of the people of Zang-Tabi village who have not had access to safe clean drinking water since inception and we considered this a fundamental human right issue that deserves our attention. We the Zang Tabi children in California have initiated since an aware program called Zang-Tabi Awareness Program (ZAP) since 11 April 2009 aim is to draw must financial support and partnerships with communities institutions organizations in and around the United States and we are determine to continue our our awarness program in pursue of the rebuliding process in the Meta villages as well as the entire Meta Clan at large..believe it, we all can join hands and help our brothers and sisters back home as sons and daughters of same clan. . Hope that MECUDA-USA will help support the completion of this project that will enable some 1200 house hold provide safe clean drinking water to its people as well as some 300 school children in Zang-Tabi village and beyond. These children continue to suffer from water born disease such as cholera, malaria..., etc as a result of drinking unsafe water since inception of the village. please find here http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in please find here http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in please find here http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/PeterSVisitToZhangTabiVillage is the Water project in Let me know if you have any quesitons.v/rGiddyZATACUDA-USA PROTOCOL/PUBLICITY SECTHIS DOCUMENT AND ANY FILES TRANSMITTED HEREWITH, ARE INTENDED SOLELY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL(S) ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. IF YOU ARE NOT THE ADDRESSEE INDICATED IN THIS MESSAGE (OR RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERY OF THIS MESSAGE TO SUCH PERSON) YOU MAY NOT REVIEW, USE, DISCLOSE OR DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE OR ANY FILES TRANSMITTED HEREWITH. IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE CONTACT THE SENDER BY REPLY E-MAIL AND DELETE THIS MESSAGE AND ALL COPIES OF IT FROM YOUR SYSTEM.
Recommendations to MECUDA-USA
Bongob:MECUDA-USA et al..
Bongob : Please make sure you listen to the tap below, Click the play button to listen to this audio file in your browser, or download this file download the file and turn on your speakers, listen to one of our Meta daughter from Minnesota, a future Meta journalist,( She is only high school, from Wellstone high school like (like SOJO, GBHS Mbengwi) but reporting from land of Ten thousand lakes in the USA. Abu's eloquent report is talking about Mecuda-usa Minnesota. Geraldine Abu reports leading the way up to the MECUDA-SA 2101 in Minnesota come July is one of the many I encourage we all to take time out of your busy schedule and listen to as many times as you can. Excellent Job and hope we can all support her, encourage her, just say things like simple "thank you" so that some day we can overcome these challenges, via Communication, creating information awareness from within and without. MECUDA will benefit more so long as we all can begin to think of our kids and in concrete terms encourage and support them with things like give them scholarships to conduct and carry out field trips, school project in whatever little projects they initiate. Oh!, we have kids amongst us who have skills and talents in music, journalism, lawyering, doctors MD, nursing, Farming, police officers, military, Senators, Congressperson, blacksmiths, diplomats etc... We have been observing these things ever since we came from Washington DC in 2000 and it's almost a decade yet …and we have unconsciously neglect the little things that could eventually matters for our kids to be able to prepare them to compete with other kids, now, I encourage you to please listen to Abu . Let us inspire them now and tomorrow we would leave Meta heritage in better hands. let’s focus on the kids too...I think Mr Ngu, president of Minnesota MECUDA-USA and his vibrant group will agree with me that ,given 5days,say27-31July 2010, will be enough time to spend in the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota as leave time..folks reserve your leave and days for July next year in Minnesota. Talking about time management challenges, time management continues to be one of our main challenges and we continue to not been able to execute our main activities to the fullest. I recommend we do simple things like create a simple Time table and a template. see example attached, it’s about TASA but those are basic things we some time neglect. Its working that simple and we can fix this.
I take my criticism off the air.
v/r
Giddy
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Crossing Borders
AUDIO STORY: Tribe from Cameroon carries on traditions in Minnesota
By Geraldine Abu, of Wellstone International High School
Geraldine Abu reports
Click the play button to listen to this audio file in your browser, or download this fileMillions of people immigrate to the United States every year – a foreign country, a foreign people, a foreign culture. Many have to learn to navigate this new country’s system on their own, but for a group of local Cameroonian immigrants, help is just one bowl of Achu and yellow soup away. ThreeSixty’s Geraldine Abu reports.John Akam was a farmer from Cameroon. He moved to Minneapolis in 2004 and died eight months later with a serous heart problem, after surgery.Akam was Meta, an ethnic group of Cameroon. In meta culture, those who die must be buried where they were born.Sendng Akam’s body back to Cameroon would have been too expensive, but the Meta Cultural and Development Association, or MECUDA, helped his family.“My father came here and died and they gave me some money to help transport my father’s corpse back to Cameroon,” said Elizabeth Njoh, Akam’s daughter and a member of MECUDA.MECUDA, a group of immigrant Meta residents in Minneapolis, helps in other ways too.“It is also a means for us to raise funds,” said Derek Nguh, president of the group, “to help other meta people back home and to take care of other projects like building schools, helping with hospitals, roads and others — we have a lot of projects.”People who attend Meta gatherings embrace each other as brothers and sisters. They rely on one another when anyone faces financial problems.“Meta is a tribe that is based in Cameroon, which is a West African country. The people of Meta have a lot of cultural activities and MECUDA brings meta indigenes who are out of Cameroon together in the United States.Everywhere the meta people go they like to find groups like MECUDA to build a community and help other meta people. Mecuda usually meets every month. Loveline Nguh is assistant secretary of the group. She says they rotate places to meet each month.“We meet in different places. We move from each member’s house to another member’s house. In that way we have to know where our sisters and brothers live.”The meeting usually starts with a gospel song, followed by a prayer in the meta language.Then officers update members on old and new business. In the January meeting, members discussed whether or not to charge interest on loans made by the group. After finishing business, they moved onto food. There’s always a table covered with enough food to feed a small group: … and lots of rice.After talking, eating and drinking, the adults meet with the kids for serious body shaking, in other words, dancing.Meetings start in the early evening and go until 3 or even 4 in the morning. Elizabeth Njoh says the best part of Mecuda is the fellowship.When you go there you share ideas with others, you have fun, we eat, we drink, it really makes me feel happy in America, especially in this lonely place that actually, in this part of the world, is a strange place to me. And when I go together to meet with friends and relatives, it makes me feel at home.Mecuda will welcome meta people from all over the United States in 2010 for a nation-wide meeting. The public is welcome to join in. And at the meeting, the group will continue to help people like John Akam’s family. For ThreeSixty, I’m Geraldine Abu, in St. Paul.
Bongob : Please make sure you listen to the tap below, Click the play button to listen to this audio file in your browser, or download this file download the file and turn on your speakers, listen to one of our Meta daughter from Minnesota, a future Meta journalist,( She is only high school, from Wellstone high school like (like SOJO, GBHS Mbengwi) but reporting from land of Ten thousand lakes in the USA. Abu's eloquent report is talking about Mecuda-usa Minnesota. Geraldine Abu reports leading the way up to the MECUDA-SA 2101 in Minnesota come July is one of the many I encourage we all to take time out of your busy schedule and listen to as many times as you can. Excellent Job and hope we can all support her, encourage her, just say things like simple "thank you" so that some day we can overcome these challenges, via Communication, creating information awareness from within and without. MECUDA will benefit more so long as we all can begin to think of our kids and in concrete terms encourage and support them with things like give them scholarships to conduct and carry out field trips, school project in whatever little projects they initiate. Oh!, we have kids amongst us who have skills and talents in music, journalism, lawyering, doctors MD, nursing, Farming, police officers, military, Senators, Congressperson, blacksmiths, diplomats etc... We have been observing these things ever since we came from Washington DC in 2000 and it's almost a decade yet …and we have unconsciously neglect the little things that could eventually matters for our kids to be able to prepare them to compete with other kids, now, I encourage you to please listen to Abu . Let us inspire them now and tomorrow we would leave Meta heritage in better hands. let’s focus on the kids too...I think Mr Ngu, president of Minnesota MECUDA-USA and his vibrant group will agree with me that ,given 5days,say27-31July 2010, will be enough time to spend in the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota as leave time..folks reserve your leave and days for July next year in Minnesota. Talking about time management challenges, time management continues to be one of our main challenges and we continue to not been able to execute our main activities to the fullest. I recommend we do simple things like create a simple Time table and a template. see example attached, it’s about TASA but those are basic things we some time neglect. Its working that simple and we can fix this.
I take my criticism off the air.
v/r
Giddy
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Crossing Borders
AUDIO STORY: Tribe from Cameroon carries on traditions in Minnesota
By Geraldine Abu, of Wellstone International High School
Geraldine Abu reports
Click the play button to listen to this audio file in your browser, or download this fileMillions of people immigrate to the United States every year – a foreign country, a foreign people, a foreign culture. Many have to learn to navigate this new country’s system on their own, but for a group of local Cameroonian immigrants, help is just one bowl of Achu and yellow soup away. ThreeSixty’s Geraldine Abu reports.John Akam was a farmer from Cameroon. He moved to Minneapolis in 2004 and died eight months later with a serous heart problem, after surgery.Akam was Meta, an ethnic group of Cameroon. In meta culture, those who die must be buried where they were born.Sendng Akam’s body back to Cameroon would have been too expensive, but the Meta Cultural and Development Association, or MECUDA, helped his family.“My father came here and died and they gave me some money to help transport my father’s corpse back to Cameroon,” said Elizabeth Njoh, Akam’s daughter and a member of MECUDA.MECUDA, a group of immigrant Meta residents in Minneapolis, helps in other ways too.“It is also a means for us to raise funds,” said Derek Nguh, president of the group, “to help other meta people back home and to take care of other projects like building schools, helping with hospitals, roads and others — we have a lot of projects.”People who attend Meta gatherings embrace each other as brothers and sisters. They rely on one another when anyone faces financial problems.“Meta is a tribe that is based in Cameroon, which is a West African country. The people of Meta have a lot of cultural activities and MECUDA brings meta indigenes who are out of Cameroon together in the United States.Everywhere the meta people go they like to find groups like MECUDA to build a community and help other meta people. Mecuda usually meets every month. Loveline Nguh is assistant secretary of the group. She says they rotate places to meet each month.“We meet in different places. We move from each member’s house to another member’s house. In that way we have to know where our sisters and brothers live.”The meeting usually starts with a gospel song, followed by a prayer in the meta language.Then officers update members on old and new business. In the January meeting, members discussed whether or not to charge interest on loans made by the group. After finishing business, they moved onto food. There’s always a table covered with enough food to feed a small group: … and lots of rice.After talking, eating and drinking, the adults meet with the kids for serious body shaking, in other words, dancing.Meetings start in the early evening and go until 3 or even 4 in the morning. Elizabeth Njoh says the best part of Mecuda is the fellowship.When you go there you share ideas with others, you have fun, we eat, we drink, it really makes me feel happy in America, especially in this lonely place that actually, in this part of the world, is a strange place to me. And when I go together to meet with friends and relatives, it makes me feel at home.Mecuda will welcome meta people from all over the United States in 2010 for a nation-wide meeting. The public is welcome to join in. And at the meeting, the group will continue to help people like John Akam’s family. For ThreeSixty, I’m Geraldine Abu, in St. Paul.
My Name is John Ticha, local Farmer in Zang-Tabi Village in Cameroon, Africa .My goal for Zang-Tabi Villages is to encourage and engages the youth and students to become future farmers, blacksmith, mechanics, pilots, doctors, teachers, lawyers, leaders , etc… so that we can help raise the production of food and reduce the rate of food malnutrition in our Society.
§ I raise Goats, Chicken, Rabbits, Pigs, Cows, fish,
o My wife Salome grows vegetable and faces same challenges.
o Main Challenges
§ Food shortage results in malnutrition
o Lack of beef, Vegetable
o Lack of animal feed to increase production
o Lack of animal cages,
§ What I like to see in the future.
o Keep the youths and Students engages. Help bring clean and safe drinking water
§ Have better future, keep them busy, youth build life skills which lead to healthy lifestyle choices with special emphasis on youth career development and conflict prevention.
o Need more cages, need feed to nurture the chicken and eggs.
o Building a wired fence for my crops and animal-Help youth understand importance of agriculture development that leads to health consequences of and healthy community building.
o Engage youth and adults in partnership to develop and implement community strategies that promote healthy lifestyle choices, avoid crimes and juvenile acts.
o Build positive, enduring relationships with youth involved as full partners through widely varying "communities of interest" to address youth risk behaviors.
o How you can help Make a donation to MECUDAUSA and indicate that the donation goes to the Zang-Tabi Regional Development Program
o Thanks
o John Ticha
§ I raise Goats, Chicken, Rabbits, Pigs, Cows, fish,
o My wife Salome grows vegetable and faces same challenges.
o Main Challenges
§ Food shortage results in malnutrition
o Lack of beef, Vegetable
o Lack of animal feed to increase production
o Lack of animal cages,
§ What I like to see in the future.
o Keep the youths and Students engages. Help bring clean and safe drinking water
§ Have better future, keep them busy, youth build life skills which lead to healthy lifestyle choices with special emphasis on youth career development and conflict prevention.
o Need more cages, need feed to nurture the chicken and eggs.
o Building a wired fence for my crops and animal-Help youth understand importance of agriculture development that leads to health consequences of and healthy community building.
o Engage youth and adults in partnership to develop and implement community strategies that promote healthy lifestyle choices, avoid crimes and juvenile acts.
o Build positive, enduring relationships with youth involved as full partners through widely varying "communities of interest" to address youth risk behaviors.
o How you can help Make a donation to MECUDAUSA and indicate that the donation goes to the Zang-Tabi Regional Development Program
o Thanks
o John Ticha
Zang-Tabi Village
Zang-Tabi Village in Meta –Cameroon-Africa
Current Issues Of Importance
Clean water:
Access to clean water is very limited, Gideon and his family installed some pipes from the natural spring, which helped the situation, but still people have to line up or go long distances to get clean water.
Education:
Zang-Tabi needs better schoolhouse facilities and qualified teachers.
Health Care:
Zang-Tabi needs a medical facility with qualified medical doctors.
Church rebuilding:
The Zang-Tabi church has about 100 members and has 4 offspring churches, each with 50 people of less. The roof of the church was destroyed last year by bad weather, and they are now rebuilding, partly with funds that Valley contributed.
Despite a very limited standard of living, people are not unhappy.
- Headquarter of Meta Clan: Located about 17 km from Mbengwi-Bamenda North West Province
- English Speaking region of Cameroon Africa
- Leader: HRH FON JA Tabi and CLAN HEAD’S of Meta
- Main official Languages: Meta, English, Peguin English and French
Current Issues Of Importance
Clean water:
Access to clean water is very limited, Gideon and his family installed some pipes from the natural spring, which helped the situation, but still people have to line up or go long distances to get clean water.
Education:
Zang-Tabi needs better schoolhouse facilities and qualified teachers.
Health Care:
Zang-Tabi needs a medical facility with qualified medical doctors.
Church rebuilding:
The Zang-Tabi church has about 100 members and has 4 offspring churches, each with 50 people of less. The roof of the church was destroyed last year by bad weather, and they are now rebuilding, partly with funds that Valley contributed.
Despite a very limited standard of living, people are not unhappy.
Cameroon
Location: Central Africa
Bordering countries:
Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria
Area: 475,500 sq. km
Historical Events of Cameroon
1776: Portuguese early explores
1884: Germans ANNEXATION
1919: League of Nations British/French
1960: Independence
1776: Portuguese early explores
1884: Germans ANNEXATION
1919: League of Nations British/French
1960: Independence
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