United States: SBA supports Felicité and her children

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The SBA USA is happy to be able to assist a Cameroonian mother, Felicité, who is living in the DC area. This lady who was hospitalized and underwent brain surgery, found herself alone to raise two children.  Today she is better, but barely makes ends meet in order to buy school supplies for her two children.  It is why the association took the decision to assist her.
Requested by one of the associations making up the Comité Tricolore of DC, here is their testimony: “These two children are very endearing and never fail to show us their affection and appreciation for what we bring to them.  They are surrounded by family in order to overcome this difficult time.“

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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Cameroon : Construction at the new Eau Claire centre

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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!

Cameroon : Medical, Educational and Rugby equipment sent from HAE and Magma Aviation

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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.

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

 

Cameroon : SBA to Douala

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Spurred on by the results of our work in Cameroon, the SBA is looking to open a new rugby centre in Douala in 2017. During his previous visit to the country, Lionel assured us both of the quality and the desire of some young Cameroonians to play for the SBA, and Serge will decide by next spring whether or not to pursue the project.

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

Bafia : meeting with the mums of our children

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During her visit of Cameroon in September, Odile, the SBA’s CEO, organised a meeting with the mothers from the charity’s centre in Bafia. The event addressed the role of young women in the local community, as, bound by cultural norms, mothers today prefer to send their sons to school but keep their daughters at home for domestic work. However, as explained by one of the mothers (who works at the Ministry of State Property, Surveys and Land Tenure), “once a woman is given control of her revenue, she can with greater ease make decisions with regards to her family”.

Cameroon : Cooperative SBA COOP

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Aware of the potential of African agriculture in the betterment of living conditions, Odile, the SBA’s CEO, set up during her visit of Cameroon last September a cooperative – named SBA COOP – comprised of 11 women from Bangangté. The cooperative will provide the women with the tools necessary to harvest corn and green beans, with a quarter of the production going to the SBA.