BERUDEP HAS GOT A GRANT FROM THE TORCHBEARER FOUNDATION This grant is a corn mill. It has been set up in Muteff – Abuh. This has come as result of the good work of the group. Thank God that the corn mill has been installed and has started working.

This Month BERUDEP, receive visitors from Nigeria. The visitors were from Women For Sustainable Lives Association and OPN in Delta state Nigeria. The aim of their visit was to have some information in beekeeping Vetiver and Women’s work. We are very happy with their coming. We sent off the team of 4 to Nigeria on the 5th of March 2005

Also Bees Abroad also join the above team to visit us. Later, on the 17 – 19 March 2005 Ngwainmbi Simon was with Brian of Bees Abroad in Limbe.

Come and visit us

Thanks

Director Ngwainmbi Simon.

ECO TOURISM DEPARTMENT RECEIVES TWO GUESTS.

BERUDEP Eco Tourism Department, received 2 female guests from Belgium. The Home stays families in Mbingo and Mbam that were chosen following BERUDEP’s poverty alleviation home stay programme benefited. The guests choose two homes to do their home stay, after finishing their program, they were so impressed and promised to come back. After every home stay, there is always a follow up to see that the beneficiary homes use the income as per the need analysis conducted.

By Jacky Diena

Greetings to all our readers and wishing them happy New Year. Hoping you will continue to read our news every month, we do and we will always like to get some suggestions from you to improve our information and performances in the field.

BERUDEP Eco Tourism Department, did receive 1 guest from Austria and 6 guests from Germany who got information about the new department on our website and some from friends. The community in Njinikom and Mbingo were blessed with these guests. These identified homes that were chosen following our poverty alleviation home stay programme benefited. The guests were 4 men and 3 women, they did enjoy horse riding, visit to the Kom Palace and walks. After every home stay, there is always a follow up to see that the beneficiary homes use the income as per the need analysis conducted. More information next bulletin

Thanks
Love Chiambah Enoch

WELCOME TO BERUDEP ECO TOURISM DEPARTMENT

If you visit BERUDEP and you wish to enjoy some of its natural touristic sites, you will be taken to one of the seventeen forest management institutions of the following villages that work with BERUDEP. No doubt you will enjoy their natural beauty!

Ilung - Caves
Mboh - Cave and important rocks
Bolem - Cave and important rocks
Muteff - Carpet rocksAbuh - Caves
Laikom - Swamps, Ijim ridge above laikom, Fon’s palace,
Afo-akom statue, rocks and important medicinal forest
Yang - Caves
Ajung - Caves
Akeh - Rocks
Djichami - Cave, water falls and rocks
Afua - Swamps, rocks and caves
Aboh - Swamps, lake and caves
Mbesa - Indian bamboos and rocks

By Jacky Diena

BERUDEP DIRECTOR AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR PROUDLY OPEN BERUDEP CENTRE FOR REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION NJINIKOM

BERUDEP Njinikom now has a Rehabilitation Training Centre. This centre, started on the 22nd of January with two different types of craft: cane and bamboo work. All the three groups of people are involve that is, the widows, disables and orphans. BERUDEP Director and the Chairman of the board of director officially and proudly opened the centre on Saturday the 29th of January two thousand and five. After the official opening, there was singing, dancing and feasting by BERUDEP staff, orphans disables and widows and Njinikom population. The occasion was wonderful. So now every day work is going on in the centre. The first cane basket was sold during the opening with a certificate, and now three more are completed. Bamboo work, three items are also completed more are under constructions. More things are flowing into the centre.

Praise God
Thank you Adam and Urszula

It is wonderful

By Anna

Belo Rural Development (BERUDEP) request volunteers in the following areas:

1. Specialists or people willing to work in marketing and advertisement
2. Specialists or people willing to work with Natural Medicinal plants
3. An environmentalist who is specialised in soil erosion control or forestry
4. An Agriculturist
5. A health community development officer that will work with groups
6. A volunteer with interest in eco tourism
7. A computer specialist
8. A Rehabilitation officer
9. A health community worker

Thanks
BERUDEP Director Ngwainmbi Simon

APPRECIATION

BERUDEP heartily appreciates the following volunteers for their voluntary work for the project:

Michelia Ward BERUDEP Administrator New- Zealand
Maité Cordelle BERUDEP Administrator France
Eyal Teutsh BERUDEP computer maintenance manager and teacher Israel
Luis Alvarez BERUDEP Rehabilitation Officer Spain
Alexandra Kurhan BERUDEP health officer America
Adam Swierczynski Rehabilitation officer/psychologist Poland
Urszula Szoltysek Project Manager and Administrator Poland
Ingrid Gastrow Medical student South Africa
Petra Boros Teacher Hungary

By BERUDEP Director Ngwainmbi Simon

NATURAL MEDICINAL PLANTS CLINICS, SOON TO BE OPENED.

BERUDEP from the 19th of March 2005 shall be opening Medicinal plants/tea Centres in Maryo-darle, Banyo and Tibati. These centres will help BERUDEP to continue with its mission of consultation and treatment using Natural Medicinal Plants.

By Ceclia Mbong