Cameroon : Donations needed to run a deworming and anti-malaria campaign!

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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.

USA : Donations

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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!

Cameroon : Collaboration with the Jean Félicien Gacha Foundation on rugby

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In the midst of the Rugby World Cup, the cultural department of the Jean Félicien Gacha foundation showed the movie Invictus, in presence of the rugbymen of the SBA Bangangté centre. After the movie, in order to stay in the theme of Africa and Rugby, a rugby initiation class was offered to the public by the Serge Betsen Academy.
The pouring rain did not undermine the fighting spirit of the SBA rugbymen… After the projection of Invictus, the players recreated the game… and the historical logic was respected: 27 to 17 for South Africa (in blue) against New Zealand… A word from the foundation: “Congratulations to all on this big first for the foundation and the lesson in sportiness it taught us, confirming the belief that ‘Football is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, and rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen”.
Thank you for the invitation!

 

 
Rugby initiation at the Gacha Foundation

Event: The Enjoy & Care Golf Trophy

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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

Cameroon: Donation from BIC!

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Thanks to the generosity of the BIC group, our children have enough blue and red pens for the whole year!

The perfect tool for their academic success is in their hands.

Thank you BIC for helping our children to study in good study conditions!

Cameroon: Visit of the Jean-Félicien Gacha Foundation

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In October, Jenna, our Project Manager and Djibril, the Manager of the Eau Claire Center visited the Jean-Félicien Gacha Foundation. They had an interesting and constructive discussion with the staff of the foundation.

We are proud to collaborate with this beautiful Foundation whose values ​are ​close to ours on the occasion of Philippe’s bamboo and pearl objects training. And we hope we will collaborate again soon on other projects.

Some books have been donated by the foundation to our children and we feel grateful for that.

Cameroon: Setting up the Zoétélé infirmary

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After opening the education pole at the Zoétélé centre at the beginning of the school year 2018, we met a nurse in Zoétélé, who had decided to volunteer and provide consultations to the children from the centre once a week.

In line with what we already set up in Bangangté and Bafia, the centre of Zoétélé will now be operational on our triple focus: Education, Health and Rugby.

We are extremely proud of this achievement! It’s amazing to see the SBA growing!

Cameroon: Charities fair 2019

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Thanks to Nadege, the Manager of the Jardin Eden Centre for representing us at the charities fair on Saturday at the AMT Club, which was organised by the Français du monde-adfe.

The Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) proudly confirms that 5000 young people from underprivileged areas have been welcomed in our centres for the past 15 years and have benefited from school support and health care, the majority of which have also practiced rugby.

It was a pleasure to discuss with our guests and an honor to see H.E. Christophe Guilhou from France back in Cameroon!

Nadège at the fair  The French Ambassador at our stand

 The SBA stand

Cameroon: Visit of the new Ambassador of France to Cameroon

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Jenna, our consultant, went to Cameroon late September to work with the managers of our centres: Abaa, Nadège, Jean-Cyrille and Djibrail. She can happily attest that the work methods implemented for the past two years have given each manager more autonomy and more space to propose new initiatives in order to propose new projects to the SBA board as well as to voice the urgent and long term needs of our centres.

Her trip took place at the same time as H.E Christophe Guilhou, the new Ambassador of France to Cameroon, took office. We took this opportunity to invite him to visit our Jardin Eden Centre in Yaounde, during our Friday afternoon activities, which included rugby initiation. Jenna and Nadège presented to him the different activities of the centre and more broadly of the Association in Cameroon as well as abroad.

The Ambassador of France with our SBA children  Children of the Jardin Eden centre

The Ambassador of France with our SBA team  The Ambassador of France with our SBA children

Partnership: Spend a night at a hotel to benefit the Serge Betsen Academy!

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The Serge Betsen Academy is pleased to be associated with the SOLIKEND initiative: first solidarity hotel reservation site. On SOLIKEND, 100% of your fees for your stay will be paid directly to the association of your choice and you can choose the Serge Betsen Academy as we are one of their partners!

Developed by an ESS start-up based in Biarritz, SOLIKEND allows you to take advantage of stays within a superb selection of hotels … while still getting involved in the charity of your choice! The full fees of your stay will be donated to the association you select online when you book.

  • How does it work?

On the SOLIKEND platform, hoteliers commit to solidarity and sell nights for the benefit of associations. When booking online, you choose an association from a wide selection of organisations working in all domains. The hotelier then agrees to transfer 100% of your payment to the chosen association!

  • A stay in magnificent 2 to 5 star hotels + A significant donation to the association of your choice

Take advantage of a selection of 2*, 3*, 4* and 5* establishments up to Palaces, mainly located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine but also throughout France (Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Provence, Cote d’Azur, …).
And who are committed alongside you to make a very significant donation to the Serge Betsen Academy.

  • Attractive prices with a unique pricing system!

On SOLIKEND, the rates are not fixed: the hoteliers open their doors to your generosity and allow you to choose the amount of your payment, at more or less 20% of the standard rate. Thus, you benefit from an offer that is both charitable and attractive in terms of price.

  • A solidarity offer in limited quantity

The SOLIKEND offer is however limited: hotels sell a maximum of 20 to 50 nights per year, within the limit of one room per day and on a wide choice of dates (excluding periods of high demand). You are therefore encouraged to not delay: discover this offer and allow our association to benefit from it. Each solidarity night is a very significant gift for our action!

To book a “solidarity night” for the Serge Betsen Academy or to find out more: www.solikend.com

Translation by Katy Birge-Wilson