Prototype implementation + Celebrations!

A final set of prototypes and disposable cameras (with postage) were left with our LECDA (NGO) representative to allow Lebialem people to come borrow/use/improve the universal connector products.

We had the amazing opportunity to see all the local villages come together for a memorial celebration and performance, including the unique cultural dances of each village.

On the day of departure, we stopped by the local hospital to deliver soap supplies to patients.

To thank us for our visit, many of the women in the nursing ward decided to name their children after our namesakes - Terence for boys and Cassie for the girls! Cassie's hold her first!

Presenting to the King and family

Postage-paid disposable camers and instructions left for the local community.


Prototype set 2

Keeping us company in the late afternoon.

Local friends showing us around town

The kings palace and universal connector demo

Farming

Taking notes

Prototype testing + Presentation

Reassembling our 'pre-marked' joint assemblies the night-before presentation to the Lebiablem locals.

Here they both are!

The ladies understood the purpose immediately! Great!

M'be Tazi introducing us to some cultural history and regional artifacts of Lebialem.

Local blacksmiths + introduction to the universal connector.

Christmas Day + Visiting the chiefs of our region

Morning mass.

Visiting our chief. There is much cultural protocal and a complex heirarchy of title and respect.

Leslie is honored as a mafua of our local village, a great sign of her involvement with the community in Lebialem.

The chief's children and wives.

Travels, experiences, and lessons from Cameroon!

So it's been a few months since our return from Cameroon (Lebialem) and there was a lot to take in! We had the opportunity to live in the home of a local member of the Lebialem community and share in the cultural lives of the locals. The team and I spent spent 10 days in Cameroon and quickly began to realize how different of a world we had just come from. Although the saying goes, "pictures just don't do it justice", here they are!

Welcome to Cameroon (Douala Airport)! What a rush!


Morning traffic...

Side market cart improvisation!


Fillin' up on gas...we're almost there (7 hour ride from Douala to Lebialem...the last 2 hours of the ride involve no paved roads...at all)


At our new home...in Mveh