Event : Beach Rugby, La Grande Motte, June 2017

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June 10th was the day of the traditional Beach Rugby of La Grande Motte, organised by SBA’s friend Philippe Herranz.
This year, Serge Betsen Academy has been honoured to be the association which benefited from this event.
A dedicated SBA team was created on purpose. And what a team !
Serge Betsen, Martin Devergie, Sébastien Kuzbik, David Genot, William Accambray, Philippe Herranz, Didier Chouchan and Yannick Saladié

On the pitch, Cadet (youth), Women and Senior teams have succeeded one to another. The SBA team gave its all but lost the quarterfinal.

A 3.000 € donation has been offered by the organising team to support our projects, especially the organisation of the second SBA inter-centres tournament in 2018.

200 Classic All Blacks t-shirts have been offered in addition. They will be sent to Cameroon in the next coming months.
Thank you very much for your support !

More photos available here !!!

Event : London Marathon, Nico and Manu supported the SBA

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You followed their training through our social media sources.  Today they have completed the race and we are very proud that these finishers wore the SBA colours. 2h43 for Nicolas and 3h55 for Emmanuel, both beating their personal scores!

Along with these results, they were able to raise more than 3600£, which has covered the costs to purchase the medical equipment necessary for the dispensary and to finance the prevention campaigns of 2017.  With this we can ensure the medical follow-up of children and their families with visits to a doctor and midwife 2 times per week at our L’Eau Clair centre for an additional 6 months.

Again, bravo gentlemen and thank you!

 

 

Cameroon : Inauguration of the new site for Centre Eau Claire, April 2017

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You have followed along as we bought the land in February 2016 and then as the centre and Philippe’s artist studio were built.

We had the pleasure of inaugurating L’Eau Claire’s new location this past April 22nd.  As you remember, construction began in November 2016.  Thanks to Annick, an architect from Yaoundé, this work was realized in less than 6 months!

 Thank you!

 

The 255m² centre is made up of 1 medical dispensary, 1 bedroom, 1 water closet, 3 classrooms, and 1 kitchen.  We can now welcome up to 130 children for educational activities.

Thanks to the WASPS Foundation for sponsoring this centre Merci à la Station Val Thorens, partenaire depuis de longues années  

This project, which represents an investment of 92 785 €, is thanks to our generous partners:

  • The station of Val Thorens
  • The WASPS Legends Charitable Foundation
  • The WASPS Academy
  • Victoria Oil & Gas
  • Two French senators established outside of France
  • Local Cameroonian donors
  • And everyone who participated in our diner on October 8, 2015 in London

Thanks to this support, this project became a reality!  Let us not forget our loyal godparents, without whom we would not be here today.

 Les oeuvres de Philippe

Since June 2012, 8000€ (integrated in the overall amount of this investment) was collected for Philippe, thanks to the initiative of Martin and his classmates, who organized classical music concerts in London.

This little annex building will be used by Philippe, as soon as he has finished his training to create objects out of bamboo and beads.  He will come here to work on his pieces and then store them until they are ready to be sold.

April 22nd was a wonderful occasion to gather the traditional and official authorities, public and private sectors, around a beautiful inauguration ceremony for one of the biggest Serge Betsen Academy projects.

Here are some pictures of this beautiful day of celebration:

Les enfants de l Eau Claire Les musiciens du Benskin Le chant des enfants Les mamans et danseuses Mme Niat, Elisabeth et Odile La remise de la tenue traditionnelle par les représentants de la jeunesse de Fatgo o 

 Inauguration en présence de Mme Niat, femme du Président du Sénat Les mains tendues vers Serge, Merci! Une main tendue vers l'enfance Les cris traditionnels pendant les danses Elisabeth et Serge Philippe ému aux larmes pour son atelier Philippe et Serge  Collation pour tout le monde Les rugbymen et women!

On prend soin de tous L équipe de rugby donne aussi un coup de main

The children thanked us, traditional Benskin dances from this Bamiléké region in Western Cameroon were presented, and speeches by official and traditional leaders were offered before Serge Betsen cut the inaugural ribbon.  He then toured the new facility for the first time.

Serge received an enormous amount of presents for his local actions and achievements, in particular this traditional dress.  The representatives from Bangangté presented it to him as a form of high recognition on behalf of the local inhabitants.

A hand outstretched to childhood!

We cannot forget that these projects and actions would never had happened without Elisabeth and Odile…

and all those who make up the SBA: our centre directors, project manager, and volunteers.

Djibrail Jenna Geneviève

 Pulchérie Berthe

Jeanette Charles Mado

 Merlin  

 

A huge thank you!

 

Event: Victoria Oil & Gas Network evening for SBA, Douala, Cameroon

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Serge and the Serge Betsen Academy team arrived in Doula due to an invitation from their partner Gaz du Cameroun, a subsidiary of Victoria Oil & Gas in England, to share the activities of the Serge Betsen Academy to the international community of the region.

While there they took the opportunity to visit the drill sites and installation in Douala. They were most impressive!

Here are the pictures from the visit.

This visit was also an opportunity for our rugby coordinator, Abaa, to present us with the local youth in order to possibly develop SBA rugby activity in Douala one day.  We will meet with others in order to make a decision.

Help Nico and Manu to raise funds for the London Marathon!

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Nicolas and Emmanuel are raising funds for our charity as part of the London Marathon. They are training hard to get ready for this rewarding experience on Sunday 23rd April. If Serge doesn’t tackle them on the bitumen during a training session, they should both cross that long-awaited goal line ;) !

We would appreciate if you gave us a hand by making a donation on this crowdfunding platform. We need your contribution for one specific project. As you know, we are currently finishing the building of our centre “Eau Claire” in Cameroon, this is due to complete at the end of April 2017. As part of this initiative, Nicolas and Emmanuel have set the objective to raise £3,000 that will be specifically used, by our team, to buy additional medical equipment, to finance our prevention campaigns for 2017 and assure the visits of two doctors twice a week in the new centre. Thanks to your help, these facilities will improve medical access to this population in a remote area.

We’re counting on your support and we thank Nicolas and Emmanuel for representing us!

 

Event: A beautiful charity evening in Biarritz

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Our project manager, Jenna, was in Biarritz at the end of March for the charitable debate dinner of the Club Archiball Basque Coast to represent our association.  The event started with a passionate debate  on stress management by François Trillo. Also present were the Air Force General Jean-Patrick Gaviard, navigators Pascal Bidégorry, Marc Lièvremont and Fabien Galthié.  Thank you Fabien for having recommended the Serge Betsen Academy as the beneficiary of this beautiful evening!

A huge thank you to the Archiballs for organizing this and for their donations. Thank you as well to the l’Hôtel du Palais de Biarritz for their welcome.

For those who want to have a look at the pictures, click here.

Event: Tournament of the 6 Stations 2017, Results

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Thanks to our support from the Tournament of the 6 Stations, the Serge Betsen Academy and the Rugby French Flair collectively received over 12000€ through crowdfunding and hot chocolate sales.

Thanks to you, our generous donors, the associations of Serge Betsen Academy and Rugby French Flair benefited by each receiving over 6000€. This amount will be able to provide a lot in the respective countries we are assisting.

Both organizations’ projects focused on health will be realized, in Cameroon and Madagascar, thanks to your generosity.

Event : Rungis Rugby Gastronomy Dinner, 31st Jan. 2017

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The Rungis Rugby Club and its President, Foed Chakir, cordially invited us to their first evening of Rungis Rugby Gastronomy Dinner to benefit the SBA.

This magnificent event that brought together 600 people, was organized by the group La Dépêche du Midi and the International Market of Rungis, allowed the rugby world to meet before the Tournament of 6 Stations, as well as supporting the SBA with a generous donation of 5000€.  This donation will allow us to provide snacks to our youth after rugby practices and to continue organizing matches between the SBA centres.

Thank you again to Foed and the whole organization!

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Event: SBA Rugby Tournament, 22 Oct. 2016, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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The pictures of our 1st friendly Rugby tournament and the briefing session the day before are here!
What a day!

Memories of the really succesfull 1st edition of the friendly SBA Rugby Tournament.

Pictures : https://goo.gl/photos/XDt2291k2VpKoUG8A
CONGRATS to all the players coaches, and all people involvement in this beautiful event.
A big THANK YOU to all the sponsors

#citysport #axa #groupeArno #VoxAfrica #Aquavita #SoFaVinc#SocieteEquipementCameroun #supermarchéMahima

 

Event: Bouygues UK running for SBA, London

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Last Thursday you liked the warm-up video with Serge Betsen, now find the pictures of the race!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1212879405453205.1073741844.128573710550452&type=1&l=ccbb2f0c50

Don’t forget our fundraising page is still open. It will allow us to organize a friendly rugby game between our centres in October in Yaoundé, Cameroon!

http://www.everyclick.com/sba_smr2016

We’re counting on you!

Congrats and thank you again Bouygues Construction UK and Bouygues UK