Following our passage to Douala for the evening organized by our partner Gaz du Cameroun, a subsidiary of Victoria Oil & Gas, the press published several articles speaking about the association.
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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.
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!
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.
Since its registration as a 501(c)3 in the United States, the SBA has been able to raise donations for actions in Cameroon and elsewhere.
Thanks to this we decided to support Kiki in her adventure for the Las Vegas Rugby 7s. Kiki reached out to the SBA requesting assistance to subsidize her travel expenses from Washington DC to Las Vegas. According to her coach, Joanne Liu, her future in rugby is promising, she may even be chosen for the World Cup (keep an eye on this one!) and by way of thanks she will play while wearing the SBA colors next March 2-3.
Go Kiki!
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.
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!
Works have begun on the construction of the SBA’s new centre in Bangangté, where Odile in September – followed by Jenna, Lionel and Francis in October – visited the site. The project’s plan, including the location of the buildings and Philippe’s workshop, has been established and is now underway after the end of the rain season.
At the end of December, progess are considerable!
Following the arrival of 60kg-worth of clothing and rugby material, brought during Lionel and Jenna’s trip, another 62kg of material (including balls, books, medicine and rugby gear) arrived on Friday 1 December in Yaoundé from the United States. The equipment will be distributed to the SBA’s different centres in Cameroon.
