Partnership: Spend a night at a hotel with your partner and support the Serge Betsen Academy!

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The Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) supports the SOLIKEND initiative, a new hotel reservation site based on a unique solidarity concept.

“Book your hotel and support charities. 100% of your fees for your stay will be paid to the charity of your choice.” The concept is explained in this video (in French):

An original and meaningful gift card for Valentine’s Day:

The SOLIKEND X Serge Betsen Academy gift card allows you to offer a stay in a superb selection of 2* to 5* hotels across France.

It is also a strong gesture for our charity as 100% of the card amount is donated to the Serge Betsen Academy.

 

How does it work?

  1. Order your gift e-card (from 50 € – equivalent of USD 56,5) on this page.
  2. The gift card will be sent directly to you by e-mail: all you have to do is print it out or forward it to the recipient.
  3. The card allows the recipient to book any of the partner hotels (more than 70 hotels) and is valid for of 2 years on all SOLIKEND offers; you can redeem it on one or more occasions.
  4. At the end of your stay, 100% of the amount of the card is transferred by the hotel owner to the SBA.

Solidarity guarantee: When the card expires (after 2 years), any unused amount left on the card will be transferred by SOLIKEND to the SBA.

Find out here more information. 

 

For any questions, the SOLIKEND team is at your disposal on +33 (0)5 59 43 85 05 or by email at: contact@solikend.com.

 

Translation by Katy Birgé-Wilson

Partnership: The ‘Recycling Rugby’ campaign reached an astonishing € 50,000 in less than 4 years.

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In nearly 4 years the Recycling Rugby  campaign collected and donated € 50,000 to our association. You can help them reach another milestone in 2020 for the benefit of our children in need.

Take the opportunity and have a look at the Recycling Rugby  new items!

Luxury bags, week-end getaway bags, toilet bags have been added alongside the usual and popular items made with recycled rugby balls.

Don’t wait and place an order via the facebook page. As a reminder 100% of the profit is donated to the SBA!

This partnership is the fruit of a long lasting and solid friendship between Lionel and Serge. Lionel’s engagement to the SBA children cause has been witnessed during his trips and initiatives like this intervention he made to a group of French young people to talk about ecology, charity work and to raise awareness about the issues that underprivileged children face in poor countries.

Recycling Rugby bag

 

Translation by Marc Fayemi

Cameroon: Celebrating the festive seasons in our centres

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Our various centres celebrated Christmas, each in their very own way this year, with great joy. Bright Christmas tree for the little ones of the Jardin Eden, Get together and dance the night away for the rugby players of Etoudi and their coach Moise, same thing at the Bafia centre and a generous dinner a Bangangté, which was embellished with beautiful decorations to celebrate Christmas and the start of 2020.

Our little ones really worked hard to decorate the place and they shared a good dinner filled with joy.

Thanks to you, friends and donors of the SBA, these children and their families contemplate the future with serenity. The education that they receive gives them hope and confidence.

Eau Claire Center during the Festive Season  Eau Claire Center during the Festive Season

Christmas and New Year Party at the Bafia Center  Christmas decoration at the Bafia center

Christmas dinner at the Bafia center  Christmas dinner at the Bafia center

Christmas dinner in Etoudi  Christmas dinner Etoudi

Christmas dinner Jardin Eden  Christmas dinner Jardin Eden

Christmas dinner Jardin Eden

Mali: TV report

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Our study trip in Mali is already on the new bulletin of Nieta TV.

Watch it here (in French) to find out more about the objectives of our visit:

 

 

Mali: Study trip in Mali

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Serge Betsen and Odile Prevot went to Mali for a study trip in early January to meet rugby players from Bamako, discuss with their coaches and possibly duplicate the Serge Betsen Academy in another country on the African continent.

Rugby matches in Mali

Rugby matches were organized in Bamako on the occasion of the visit of Serge Betsen and Odile Prevot who quickly realized that rugby was bringing lost of joy in Mali. Transposing the SBA to Mali would mean sharing our passion and the values ​​of rugby to the country’s youth and carry on using our sport as a vector for development.

It was also an honor for Serge and Odile to meet Arouna Modibo Touré, Minister of Youth and Sports of Mali, in order to discuss about the transposition of the SBA in Mali. Together we want to strengthen the African rugby, share the passion and values ​​of this sport which means so much to us and make it a real vector for development!

Arouna Modibo Touré, Serge Betsen and Odile

Finally, all the SBA team would like to thank very much H.E. Mahamadou Nimaga for enabling us to discover his country from Washington DC. Thanks to him, this trip in Mali was a real success!

Mahamadou Nimaga and Odile Prevot in Washington DC

Cameroon: Cleanups in the neighborhood of our centers

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In Bangangté, we have set up a monthly campaign to clear out litter around the center. Raising environmental awareness among the children is very important to us.  And after the cleanup, we don’t forget to ask our children to wash their hands with the soap generously offered by the Hilton Yaoundé Hotel!

cleanup

Anniversary: Recap of our 15th anniversary and festive season wishes from our centres!

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❤🎄🎊 We wish you all a very happy festive season! ❤🎄🎊

In 2019, we celebrated our 15th anniversary. At Serge Betsen Academy (SBA), we had an amazing year ! We would like to thank you for your support and suggest you to read this newsletter which offers an insight into this special year.

Please find out our newsletter here.

The SBA children would like to wish you a happy new year!

 

Partnership: Das Welt Auto supports the installation of solar panels in our centres

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Thanks to its support and its USD17,691 donation, Das Welt Auto has enabled Serge Betsen Academy to install solar panels at its Bafia and Bangangté centres. Local firm Hias Consulting carried out the work.

We now have 10 panels in Bangangté and 6 in Bafia. These supply the centres and make up for the events of supply reduction on the grid, as happens only too often unfortunately in these towns of Cameroon.

All our children and young adults can therefore work, study and learn thanks to our computers and the centres’ lights after nightfall, which is around 6pm year-round in this part of the world.

Thanks again to Das Welt Auto for making the tutoring sessions so much more comfortable for our students.

 

Bafia Centre

Bâtiment Centre Bafia  Bâtiment Centre Bafia with light

  Christmas and New Year Party at the Bafia Center with light  Board with light

Bangangté Centre

Building Bagangté Center  Bangangté center at night with light

Lights  Families inside the Bangangté center

Partnerships: Are you looking for ideas for original and solidarity gifts for Christmas?

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Thanks to our partners Solikend, Sports d’époque (Vintage Sports) and Recycling Rugby, you can treat your loved ones while supporting our charity.

To give someone a treat at Christmas, choose:

– A Solikend gift card for a dream stay in a hotel in France (100% of the amount will be donated to the SBA), place your order here (website in French only).

– A tri-colour polo shirt or sweater from the Serge Betsen X Sports d’époque (5% of sales will be donated to us), place your order here.

– A bag, case, purse, wallet … made from recycled rugby balls. Visit the Recycling Rugby Facebook page to place your order! (100% of the amount donated to the SBA).

Make the most of the festive season and support us!

For more information, please read our newsletter.

Translation by Katy Birge-Wilson

Cameroon: A generous donation of corns from RAFAMI

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A big thanks to Elisabeth Seyi and the women of RAFAMI for their 5 kilos donation of corn to distribute.

Thanks to these hard working and generous women, 350 meals have been served in the Bafia centre in October and November 2019!

The RAFAMI is the coalition of Women’s Associations for Agriculture, farming and fishery in the Mbam and Inoubou departments, which was created by Elisabeth in 2009.

They also donated 50 kilos of corn seeds, which went to Bangangté for our women cooperative and will soon be planted.