A group of Let's Talk Tech graduates spent two weeks on Gala Street in Mankon teaching Office and HTML, designing a back-to-school campaign, and clearing a primary school's grounds before the new academic year.

Global Visionaries Network works out of a space on Ghana Street in Bamenda. It helps less privileged people, and children in particular, reach education and opportunity, alongside work on community development and sustainable initiatives. The interns spent their first day on the organisation's social media and background research, reading how it communicates and how the public sees it, before they ever walked into the office.

Day two, and already producing

On the second day they arrived at the workspace and met the CEO and the team. They introduced themselves, said what each of them specialised in, and were asked questions about their skills and interests. Then came the tasks: a short video shot on their own phones showing their specialisation, a flyer for the organisation's back-to-school campaign, and a hand in its social media.

That turned the placement from watching into producing work that would be reviewed and used. The flyer was the first real test. They had to think about what the campaign was for and how to say it visually, weighing the order of information, the images, the typography, the colour and the spacing. It taught them that good design is not making something attractive, it is making sure the reader understands the message quickly.

Teaching Office, Excel, PowerPoint and HTML

Straight after orientation they were put in front of young people learning digital skills. They taught the Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint presentations, and foundational HTML web development.

Alongside the teaching they worked on how the organisation is seen. They designed promotional flyers for the community back-to-school campaign, tidied up its LinkedIn and Facebook handles, and set up, configured and branded a new TikTok account to reach a younger audience. They also worked on the website, which is where an organisation's information, visibility and public engagement tend to sit.

Turning an old campaign into a new one

The biggest assignment was a recap of the previous back-to-school campaign. They were sent looking for past photographs and messages, and asked to build something that showed what the earlier campaign had achieved while preparing the public for the 2026 one.

It taught them storytelling. They had to pick the relevant pictures, order them, attach the right words and cut a video that connected the campaign to real children and real opportunities. Good content creation, they found, starts well before the editing does: first understand what material exists, then decide what matters, then decide how to show it.

Working around what was missing

The recap did not come easily. Internet connectivity failed them at points, and their work depended partly on material that lived online. Rather than stop, they carried on with what they already had. The hard drive they needed was not available either, so the files moved on a flash drive, which made the workflow awkward and the file management careful.

Editing demanded accuracy as much as creativity. A wrong word, a wrong image or a wrong order would show in the finished video, so they reviewed it several times before sending it to the director. On more than one day their supervisor was out, and they kept working anyway, which is its own lesson about getting on with it unsupervised.

Out of the office and onto the school grounds

The placement was not all screens. They made a field visit to Redemption Bilingual Nursery and Primary School, one of the organisation's grassroots project sites, and helped the staff clean, organise and set the grounds right for the coming academic year.

Across the two weeks they improved at graphic design, content creation, video editing, website work, communication and teamwork, and they wrote honestly about disagreeing over designs and learning not to take it personally. One of them is an agribusiness student, and came away seeing how digital work could carry agriculture, entrepreneurship and sustainability too.

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