Two Let's Talk Tech graduates arrived at Green Globe Organization expecting to observe. By the second day they were teaching Microsoft Word to a room of children, and by the end of the week they were learning to fly a drone so they could teach that too.

Green Globe Organization is a youth-led environmental and social-impact organisation based in Bamenda, North-West Region. It works where climate action meets community resilience and sustainable livelihoods, partnering with communities, schools and local leaders. Its activities run from environmental education and biodiversity restoration to waste management, water catchment protection, agroforestry and sustainable agriculture.

From observers to tutors in two days

Nangah Keshia Che and Malialia Celine Bride began on Wednesday 12 August 2026. On the first day they were shown around and watched a group of children working through Microsoft Word training. They were also handed the organisation's LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube pages and asked to review how Green Globe presents itself online, looking at design, the quality of published video, and where it could improve.

On the second day they stopped watching. They were asked to teach the children the more advanced functions of Word, building on what the group had already covered. That was the moment the placement changed: they were no longer interns learning about an organisation, they were tutors responsible for someone else's understanding. It meant explaining clearly, answering questions, and sometimes repeating an explanation until it landed.

Designing the certificates, then invigilating the exam

Each intern was asked to design a Certificate of Participation for the children finishing the programme, working alone rather than as a pair. Designing individually put pressure on them, and it also meant every design decision was their own. The certificates were real documents the organisation would hand out, not a practice brief.

On Friday 14 August they invigilated the children's final examination, taken after two months of Word training. Their job was to supervise and to help where a child could not understand a question, reading and explaining it so that comprehension was never the barrier to showing what they had learned. It taught them where help ends and the integrity of an assessment begins.

Learning to fly a drone, in order to teach it

On Wednesday 19 August, with the children's Microsoft training finished, the interns were introduced to basic drone operation. They were taught to fly so that they could teach the children to fly, because the children were to demonstrate it at the closing ceremony.

It put them in front of a technology quite unlike the desktop applications they had been working with, and it made the chain of learning plain. They became learners first and instructors second, within the same week.

Leaving the room better than they found it

After the drone training they installed Canva, Photoshop and antivirus software on the computers the children use, so the next group of trainees would have better tools to work with. On Thursday 20 August they finished the remaining installations and then taught the children to use the printer, in black and white and in colour.

Printer operation sounds small. Teaching it showed them again that a basic technical skill becomes useful the moment someone can pass it on, and it left the organisation's training room readier for the groups that follow.

The last day

Friday 21 August was their final day with the children. They played games, helped prepare the group for the closing ceremony, and worked on the planning: the date, the refreshments, the activities to be presented. The Director also sat with them and gave advice on improving their LinkedIn profiles, which is practical help for two people about to look for work.

They came away with practical experience across Word, Canva, Photoshop, software and antivirus installation, printer operation, basic drone flying, digital content evaluation and social media analysis. They also wrote about patience, and about learning that people do not move at the same pace. Leaving the children, after days of teaching and playing with them, was the part they found hardest.

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