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!
❤🎄🎊 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!
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
Bangangté Centre
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
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.
The SBA carries on growing and after setting up the education pole in Zoétélé, it is the health pole that is born at the end of the year with the presence of a nurse once a week in the centre. In this town in the middle of the bush, it is not rare to find pests and mosquitoes that transmit malaria. After only a month of consultations, the nurse asserted that it was necessary to organize a deworming and anti-malarial treatment campaign. For this we need your help as we need US$335 to conduct exams for the 25 children of the center. So you will enable them to study in good health!
We would like to thank Guillaume who donated some money and would like to ask our other generous friends to follow his path.
Contact us via contact@sergebetsenacademy.org to find out more and make a donation of any amount to help us here.
A huge thanks to the Dauge family from NYC for all the lovely toys!
The boxes are ready to be sent to Cameroon HAE Group, our dear partner! The gifts will arrive on time for Christmas to please our little ones.
And once again, Dr Roshan, the great American Doctor from the Georgetown Dentistry in ashington DC took part in our hygiene campaign. She offered 152 Colgate toothpaste tubes for our SBA children and we feel very grateful!
This friendly sports day raised USD 26,950 for the benefit of various charities: the Jeep a Breast, Bandjoun Station, Peña Kimio, Water Family and the Serge Betsen Academy for the first time!
A beautiful Golf day on this 8th of October brought together on the green, Kelly Slater and Stéphanie Gilmore, world surfing champions, and all the teams including the “Betsen” team which was represented by our great volunteers Marguerite-Marie and Nelly who were also present on the green.
After all the golfing, an auction took place; once again all the money raised went to the charities.
This 8th of October Golf day, enabled the Serge Betsen Academy to receive USD 1,685 in donations for its first participation. These funds will be dedicated to our education pole for the year 2020.
For a first Try, this one was beautifully converted for the SBA. Thank you! Really looking forward to the next events!
Translation by Katy Birge-Wilson
The perfect tool for their academic success is in their hands.
Thank you BIC for helping our children to study in good study conditions!
