The Cameroon Project
June 2009: Alphonsius Ategha's company
Communication Facilitators has started business:
An interesting new aspect may be the resemblance between Cameroon and Canada, both countries having French and English as the main languages.
An interview with Mr Ategha by the newspaper Le Jour
July 2008:
A group course has started with Alphonsius Ategha teaching and Bartho Kriek assisting and giving feedback on the assignments.
Material: the Comprehensive Subtitling Course
End of May 2008
Plans have been made for a Comprehensive Subtitling Course for a group of students in Cameroon. Their goal: employment by the new subtitling company of which Alphonsius is co-owner.
Alphonsius receiving his Certificate
At the beginning of May 2008 Alphonsius came to The Netherlands to complete his subtitling course:
December 2007
The set arrived in Cameroon, but thieves stole the video recorder, and the shuttle box was also missing.
Alphonsius Ategha is glad with the set, but we still have to get him an appropriate video recorder and a shuttle box.
November 2007
Tegha then came to pick up the set in Haarlem. Returning...
In Heidelberg, Tegha shipped the set to Cameroon.
September 2007
The connections can be rather complicated - so before unplugging, Sabine made a snapshot:
Next problem: the missing manual. After an appeal on the FFF site, another subtitling colleague offered a manual.
August 2007
A subtitling set starting a new life in Cameroon
Our subtitling student Alphonsius Ategha, who's been interested in subtitling since childhood, was preparing to start the first subtitling company in Cameroon.On the FFF website (organization of Dutch subtitlers) a Screen subtitling set was offered by Sabine Mutsaers
- after countless subtitling hours behind the keyboard.
Alphonsius in Cameroon heard about it and was interested. A cousin of his, Tegha, studying in Heidelberg, Germany, was willing to come and collect it So, we decided to drive to the southern Dutch city of Tilburg to pick it up at Sabine's place.
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