Friday, January 31, 2014

Our Key Messages

The OMOH Project was founded in Cameroon and is recognised/registered as a charity in Cameroon We operate at a grass roots levels, directly with the children, communities and existing schools, utilising our team's local knowledge and experience.

We support the children, either collectively or via individual sponsorship, to pay for their school fees, uniforms and school equipment. We also meet their basic welfare needs through the provision of meals and basic health services.






We create opportunities for children who are adversely impacted by poverty and a lack of parental support and care. We want each child to flourish, positively impacting their lives and the future outcomes of them and their community.

We operate primarily via online platforms (i.e. website, social media and email) to engage and communicate with you in an effective, responsive and personal way.

Our founders have personal experience of the benefits of education sponsorship and as a team are motivated by their Christian faith and values to meet each child at their individual point of need, regardless of gender or faith.

Accountability

We understand that with a charity, people want to know exactly where their money is going and how it will be used. Since we first launched in February 2012, this has always been a point we want to be clear on.

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Every year we will produce an expenditure list and financial update so you can see exactly where your money will go.

Our Values - What we believe in

We share a great passion to improve the lives of children living in extreme poverty because we believe that children are the world's greatest resource: the future leaders and citizens of tomorrow.
We know that children are the world's greatest resource; that, if they have health, education and skills as well as the inner strength, confidence and wisdom to take full advantage of those assets, children are the key to reversing poverty.


We believe that education is the key out of poverty.We are committed to helping children and their communities to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty by meeting the needs that have kept them in the clutches of it. We have identified these needs as the lack of funding for education, sponsorships or skills training; malnutrition and food shortages; diseases and illness; and overall lack of welfare support.


Thursday, January 30, 2014

Debra Debs - The Face of the OMOH Project

Debra Debs, The Face of the OMOH Project

Debra Debs owes her early music days to her mother's Jazz collection and the missionary boarding school for girls she attended where she sang tenor in both the choir and girl band formed with 7 classmates. Encouraged by her drama teacher, in the summer of 2000 she pursued a degree in Film & Media with Drama in Winchester, UK although dropping out 5 months later saying “...I didn't want to analyse shadows in film noirs” Fortunately for music lovers a Popular Music degree at the Tech Music schools soon followed topped-up with a Masters in International Business.


The last 3 years have culminated in an impressive music CV for an unsigned artist kicking off with her 2011 EP release ‘WHUMAN’, appearances and airtime for ‘LifeCycles’ on London’s Soul/RnB/Jazz specialist stations such as Jazz FM, BBC 94.9, Solar Radio, Mi-Soul etc performing at several sold out venues including London’s prestigious Royal Opera House; winning Best Female Urban Act-Cameroon Academy Awards and performing at the Urban Music Awards 2013. She’s graced the catwalk of the UKs biggest Africa Fashion event [Africa Fashion Week London in 2013] , the National Reality TV Awards and British Young Business Awards performing to Vince Cable and the Mayor of Camden.


More impressing is her accolade of hitting 1+ million Youtube hits for her 2013 summer official video for Africa [Higher Higher], a poignant tale of corruption and thirst for growth and development - which has also aired on local and international TV stations syndicated to over 30 countries in Africa.

The talented Cameroon-born, London-based soul singer/song-writer Debra Debs returns with a fresh new album entitled 'LifeCycles' - released late November 2013 and rapidly garnering rave reviews within the UK soul and jazz circuit. For music lovers with a penchant for sounds blessed with groove and soul, this is one album that is guaranteed to stay on rotate.

Recently featured on Jazz FM’s ‘Album of the Week’, her music is a blend of "NeosoulfulJazzyRnBAfrosoulThings" and as much of a mouthful that is, the ‘LifeCycles’ LP is an intricate blend of sounds infused with 90's RnB, Jazz, Gospel, AfroSoul and skilled lyricism that tend to impart socio-conscious messages or resonate poetic enchantments for those with a weakness at describing seduction and life’s multi-experiences.

There is no mistaking she's been influenced by the likes of Jill Scott, Ella Fitzgerald, Lauryn Hill, Floetry, Sarah Vaughn, Mary J Blige and many other greats. Having recently signed a 2-year licensing and distribution deal with Sweet Soul Records in Japan [HMV, Tower Records etc] and currently promoting ‘LifeCycles, Debra Debs is impressively one of the UK’s finest emerging artists and certainly one to watch in 2014.


The One Mind - One Heart OMOH Welcomes you on Board

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

OMOH's Roving Ambassador a blend of Beauty and Brains

The One Mind One Heart Roving Ambassador- Tata Lilian

TATA LILIAN SHULIKA is a 26 year old female born in Kumbo, Bui division found in the North West region of Cameroon.

She obtained her Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates from Saint Augustine’s college and later on moved to the university of Buea where she graduated with a Second Class Honors in Geography in 2009. She then got into the International relations institute of Cameroon where she obtained a Professional Masters degree in Regional Integration and Management of Community Institutions and presently pursuing another Professional Masters Degree in Diplomacy.



Her brains have had her attend a couple of International Conferences and visited a couple of countries for such as the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial guinea, Ethiopia, the united kingdom and the United states of America.

She recently acted as the Cameroon Adviser to the United Nations in New York during the United Nations General Assembly, as an intern at the Cameroon permanent mission to the United Nations.

She serves as the Project Coordinator with the NGONSO
Youth Forum promoting leadership, entrepreneurship and youth development in the Nso community.

As a UN Volunteer, assists civil societies in promoting community development projects.

She intends using her exposure to bring a new lift to the OMOH project.

The entire One Mind - One Heart OMOH welcomes you on board.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

About the OMOH Project

 

About

One Mind One Heart (OMOH) Project  was established in 2013 as a not-for-profit, organization in Cameroon. Its beneficiaries are carefully selected existing charities around the world, with special emphasis on children in need and seeking for better ways on improving their livelihood.A Cameroonian youth oriented association which advocates for a better living for the less privileged.
Mission
Our mission is a simple one; we want to ensure that the next generation is different ensuring that equal opportunities exist for everyone. True to the saying that "it is easier to build strong children than to fix broken adults", we aim at building strong children for Cameroon!

Company Overview
The One Mind One Heart (OMOH) Project is a non-profit and apolitical association whose motto is “You are a child of the Universe”.
Description
One Mind One Heart (OMOH) Project  was established in 2013 as a not-for-profit, organization in Cameroon. Its beneficiaries are carefully selected existing charities around the world, with special emphasis on children in need and seeking for better ways on improving their livelihood.

Uplifting and empowering children, addressing illness, poverty and suffering are the primary activities the
One Mind One Heart Project , whose motto is, "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;you have a right to be here.''

The Project also exists as a platform for debate and discussion, as philanthropic activities continue to evolve around the world.
General Information
Any one can join! If you are interested in making a difference in our nation rather than complaining about the state of things, we'll show you how you can!

One Mind - One Heart (OMOH): Meet our OMOH Ambassador - Akere-Maimo

One Mind - One Heart (OMOH): Meet our OMOH Ambassador - Akere-Maimo: OMOH Project Ambassador He became the Communication Officer of the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (CCAM) – an affiliate of the U...

Meet our OMOH Ambassador - Akere-Maimo

OMOH Project Ambassador

He became the Communication Officer of the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria (CCAM) – an affiliate of the UK-based Malaria Consortium in April 2008 and managed this post till April 2013. He is the Founder/President of a talent search & promotion organisation, TalentzAXIS created in September 2003 and is currently work as the Far North Regional Field Supervisor for the Global Fund Round 9-Malaria Project at Plan Maroua.

He is a gifted songwriter and singer; with an album that focuses on Cameroon’s socio-political renaissance titled “New Creation”.

He is 32, married and a father of one; hail from Meta in the Momo Division of the NWR-Cameroon. He participated in the International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP): “Youth Leadership and Civic Engagement in the U.S. He has been shortlisted for a number of contests and awards owing to his contribution to community development, the most outstanding being the 2013 edition of the “Harubuntu Prize Award” for enterprising Africans. Welcome on board Sir.
— with Akere-Maimo Ano-Ebie.

Meet Richard Kings - Face of the OMOH Project









The One Mind - One Heart OMOH presents a FACE of the Project.

He is a Cameroonian artist, born December 6, 1974 - writer, singer performer, guitarist. Two Albums - Melody Agora (2003) and Triple Heritage (2006) and a single.





Performances:
1. Tokyo International Convention on African Development (TICAD), 2007.
2. Pan African Festival of Arts Culture - PANAF Festival in Algeria (Algiers, Zeralda), 2009.
3. Shanghai World Expo (Africa Square), China, 2010.
4. General Assembly of the United Nations for World Slavery Day, New York, USA, 2010.
5. International Festival of Islamic Music in Algeria (Tlemcen and Algiers), 2011.
6. Invited by the Nso’ Diaspora to perform in the United States of America in Dallas, Minnesota, Washington DC, Atlanta, Seattle with other performers like Henry Dikongue, Richard Bona, Oliver Mtu kun zu.




7. 50th Anniversary Celebration of La Republique du Cameroon (Yaoundé) and of the Military in Cameroon (Bamenda).
8. Distribution project of 8 million mosquitoes nets by KO Malaria Project.
9. National Brochure for the fight against malaria by the Centre for Malaria Control.
10. Mobile Academy 2004, Participant, Berlin, Germany.

He is called Richard Kings. He sings in Lamnso, English, French, and Italian. In addition, he speaks German and Pidgin English.


Overview of the OMOH Project

The OM-OH project was established in 2013 as a not-for-profit, organization in Cameroon. Its beneficiaries are carefully selected existing charities around the world, with special emphasis on children in need and seeking for better ways on improving their livelihood.

Uplifting and empowering children, addressing illness, poverty and suffering are the primary activities the One Mind One Heart Project , whose motto is, "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;you have a right to be here.''

The Project also exists as a platform for debate and discussion, as philanthropic activities continue to evolve around the world. https://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Mind-One-Heart-OMOH/186030234929070