Farmer Tantoh was the subject of a feature-lenght article in this month Mountain Forum Bulletin
(Volume VIII Issue 1, January 2008).

The Summer Environmental Programme (SEE 2007), organised by the Tahoe-Baikal Institute was a turning point in my life. I learned about it from the Mountain Forum online library and had to apply in early January 2007.

When I was selected as TBI’s first participant from Africa, I could not believe my eyes and thought that it was a joke. With limited financial resources, TBI organised a fund-raising event for me via the internet and 60 persons - WWOOF Volunteers who worked with me in Cameroon, their families, friends, TBI Board of Directors and Alumni - supported me to come for this programme.

I started realising how highly the work I have been doing in my community is appreciated by people in the wider world. Being my first time to travel internationally, I thought I was going to another planet, for the Western World is really a different world with respect to most African countries.