After meeting with the director, we were able to obtain donations of sheets and towels for our centres.

The children from the centre Jardin Eden welcomed the SBA team and “Uncle Serge” with songs and traditional dances. They had prepared this small ceremony with their directors by making their own costumes and preparing their speeches, a great educational activity.  This surprise by the “petites frimousses” of the Jardin Eden delighted the public.

A clip of the dance can be found here.

Once their shyness had passed, we were able to listen to the pretty stories and especially to see the progress of the children, especially those of Alma (CP) and Madeleine (CE2), who had significant difficulty at the beginning of the school year. Their parents did not have the resources to pay for their schooling.  Today these two girls have finished their second trimester as the 1^st and 3^rd student in their respective classes.  Serge and the SBA team congratulated them on their job well done.

Thank you to Nadege, Kurt, François, and Christelle, the activities leaders of Jardin Eden.

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!

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”.