German Embassy Provides Clean Water For Alahkie-Mankon
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
By Ignatius Nji
Lutz, Renate and Marlis Volunteers at CAT-Cameroon
The local community of Alahkie-Mankon located far away from Bamenda metropolis in Mezam Division has been provided with a clean drinking water. The water project which is a borehole drilled and water extracted from beneath granite and is generated from a depth of about 42 meters and pumped up in to 15600liters storage underground tank constructed in an elevated area of about 35 meters to supply to community through stand taps by use of solar pumps. The clean water project funded by the German Embassy in Yaounde and partly by the community at Alahkie, at a total cost of about FCFA 11 million was handed to the community of about 3000 inhabitants this Monday May 18, 2015.
Read more »Labels: Alahkie, Bamenda, CAT-Bamenda, DGFK, Ignatius Nji, Lutz Fluegge, Marlis Bartkiewitz-Schmid, Nauen, Njini Victor, Norbert Pintsch, Renate Perner, Royal University Cenhtre, SES, SES Bonn
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:09 AM,
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Training Trainers on Arts, Craft for Environmental Protection, Recycling
Sunday, May 10, 2015
By Ignatius Nji
Some four trainees in Bamenda undertook a training to teach children arts and craft that promote environmental protection as used materials are being recycled and put in to use. This laudable initiative by a German Trainer, Renate PERNER from the Senior Expert Service (SES) Bonn, under the supervision of Prof PINTSCH of the Society for the Promotion of Appropriate Technology and Housing (SPATH) as coordinated at the Center for Appropriate Technology (CAT) is coming at a time that the government of Cameroon has ban the use of non biodegradable plastics.
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| Renate PERNER Training Trainers as Prof Norbert PINTSCH supervises |
Providing alternative this training shall empower children in the schools and at home with the know-how to make shoppers’ bag from cheap materials such as newspapers and old textile which can not be harmful to environment. This environmental friendly arts and craft can be learned and practice by everybody to ensure that the environment is protected and safe especially in local communities. The main goal of this training is to foster sensitization on environmental protection and appropriate technology to as important solutions in local communities. The practice can go a long way to reverse the rapidity with which the climate change is affecting the biodiversity. Home made paper bags for shopping would replace the use of non biodegradable plastic that has taken a tool on the environment.
Read more »Labels: CAT Bamenda, Ignatius Nji, Njini Victor Nkuh, Prof. Norbert Pintsch, Renate Perner, SES
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Triple Decoration Dr Senta Siller
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Labels: CAT, Dr Simon Leshey I, IAM, IPC Dr Senta Siller, IPC RUC, Mr Njini Victor, Njini King Caro, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Royal University Centre, SES
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Environment Training for Kids
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Aaron Kaah Y
Some 70 kids in Bamenda have learned new ways of keeping the environment clean by recycling news paper waste in to shopping bags. The idea at the behest of the Centre for Appropriate Technology was facilitated by some three German Volunteers from the German Society for the Advancement of Culture (DGFK)- represented by Renate Perner and the Senior Expert Service SES-Germany represented by Prof. Norbert Pintsch and Marlis Bartkiewitz Schmid.
Opening the one week training workshop at the CAT head office in Bamendaon Feb. 13 -2014 the volunteers team leader Prof. Norbert Pintsch said the project was aimed at enabling children and kids to understand that they had a responsibility of keeping the environment clean at a tender age. The professor attributed the task of serving the environment to a global fight which needed all hands on deck. He said kids by their nature learned through practical observations reason why they thought it wise to bring this income training to Cameroon children. Apart from helping to keep the environment clean he said the project was going to enable kids source income for some of their needs and make them self reliant. In response to the new ideas the CAT Country director Njini Victor thanked the three volunteers for keeping Cameroon at heart and for helping to build the capacities of their kids clubs on important capital issues like climate change and environmental protection. Mr Victor said such trainings and project were helping to put CAT and children in the global map as main actors in the fight against polluted environment.
The kids drawn from within some ten CAT school clubs in the city of Bamenda enjoyed themselves during the training sessions as they overwhelmingly saw how news paper waste could be transformed in to shopping bags for an income. The children through practical demonstrations were taught why polythene papers were a nuisance to society and its disadvantages. Lecturing on the children the prof. -emphasised that because of it non degradable nature, polythene bags were a great danger to nature. He cited its impacts to pollution and some health hazards. The kids were told to inculcate the habits of proper waste disposal and to make good use of their waste news papers. In response to the training and mentoring the kids produced over 100 shopping bags which according to the Director of CAT were affordable and low cost. During the end of the workshop the kids excitedly took home their bags as souvenirs from the trainings. The bags cost in between 10-25 FCFA and can be use to carry books to shops and for local shopping. At the end of the workshop the kids were awarded certificates of merit and training as a sign of encouragement and motivation to the task of keeping the environment clean.
This year’s program for the CAT volunteers also witnessed an open door tombola and high animation with the kids. Reacting to the trappings of the Kids Mme Mbunwe Clarisse a parents for one of the kids who was fortunate to be at the Bazaar thanked the CAT and the Volunteers for being at the forefront of keeping children busy with new ideas in an era which called for self reliance development at all levels. Mme Clarisse appealed to the volunteers to make it back to Cameroon if they could next year for another remarkable and fruitful training.
Labels: Cameroon DGFK, CAT, DGFK Prof Pintsch, Germany, Marlis Bartkiewitz-Schmid, SES, SES Renate Perner
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Cat Volunteers Teach Children How to Recycle Waste Papers into Shopping Bags
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Labels: Cameroon DGFK, CAT, DGFK, Germany, Marlis Bartkiewitz-Schmid, Prof Pintsch, SES, SES Renate Perner
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Big thanks to Center for Appropriate Technology
Friday, February 22, 2013
A.K .Yancho
The lecturers and students at the college of the Medical and Pharmaceutical Science of the Catholic University in Cameroon (CATUC) in the Bui Division of the North West region of Cameroon have overwhelmingly praised and thanked the Center for Appropriate Technology (CAT) Cameroon and its German born volunteers Prof. Norbert Pintsch, Mme Renate Perner and Mr. Lutz Fluegge for the kind gesture of offering them symbolic medical equipment. The staff room of this university unit was the venue for all smiles on Feb. 19th 2013 as the PROVOST at this university Prof. Egbe Philip and his collaborators received the CAT team during this maiden working visit to the institution.
Earlier on the director of CAT Cameroon Mr. Njini Victor had told a college of lecturers who were on hand to receive them that its German partners were Norbert Pintsch from the Senior Expert Service (SES) and Renate Perner and Lutz Fluegge from the German Society for the Advancement of Culture (DGFK) Germany.
Read more »Labels: A.K .Yancho, CAT, CATUC, DGFK, Lutz Fluegge, Njini Victor, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Prof. Egbe Philip, Renate Perner, SES, Sister Marie Banye
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:47 AM,
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For a better Cameroon
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Labels: CAT, DGFK, IAMatBUST, Mini Hydro Power Station, Njini Victor, Photo Voltaic Installation, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SES, SPATH
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:29 AM,
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CAT Involves Children in Fight Against Climate Change
Thursday, February 24, 2011
It is worth noting that CAT has been collaborated with SES for the past nine years and benefits from technological transfer and capacity building from SES.
The Senior Experts Service, SES is based in Germany and is composed of retired professionals. CAT has greatly impacted on the lives of rural Cameroonians by developing solar products that are affordable and sustainable. Presently CAT is developing a traffic data and pollution project which could be of help Bamenda city development planners.
This appeared in Tribune February 15-21, 2010
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