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Event: Come to Lyon, on 15th March 2024 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the SBA!

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The Serge Betsen Academy (SBA) will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a dinner at the Grand Réfectoire of the Grand Hôtel Dieu in Lyon. This event will be the opportunity to take stock of the last 20 years, and to introduce and finance new projects intended to improve the future of our young people in Cameroon and Mali. All proceeds will go to the Serge Betsen Academy.

 

For the last 20 years, the Serge Betsen Academy has supported more than 9000 underprivileged children in Cameroon and Mali using rugby as a vector of social integration. This charity, created by Serge Betsen, former France national rugby union player, aims to provide access to school tutoring, healthcare, meals and rugby training to these underprivileged children. Thanks to the generosity of partners and donors, the SBA has created six centres over the past 20 years and has had a positive impact on the life of its young people through its various programmes.

Serge Betsen and the entire association would like to invite you to discover the dreams of our young people and to get involved.

 

20 years old is a golden age, a magnificent age where anything is possible!

At 20, you were certainly studying and you may even have had your dream profession in mind!

Our SBA children are just like you were a few years ago, they dream of becoming doctors, engineers, electricians, teachers, high-level athletes, fashion designers, midwives.

Some are just 3 years old, others 10, others are 20! They have been with the SBA for 1 year, 10 years, 20 years. They all have dreams. The SBA team and the children are counting on your presence on March 15th to make them possible.

 

Date: Friday evening on March 15th, from 7pm, the day before the 6-Nations France-England game

Venue: Grand Réfectoire, Grand Hôtel-Dieu, 3 Cour Saint Henri Grand Hôtel-Dieu, 69002 Lyon, France

The program will be as follows:

  • Welcome cocktail from 7pm,
  • Seated dinner with sports legends and testimonials from 8pm ,
  • Review of the last 20 years and presentation of the new projects of the Serge Betsen Academy,
  • Auction, and
  • Musical entertainment by Harry the Piano until midnight.

We would like to thank Sarah Russis for joining us as a MC and also the sports legends who have confirmed their presence for now: Serge Betsen of course, but also Dimitri Yachvili, Hamid Amina, Lénaïg Corson, Nabs Suma, Petru Balan, Romain Magellan, Julien Bonnaire, Fabrice Estebanez, Paoline Ekambi, Pascal Papé, Salim Tebani and Baptiste Couilloud.

 

Choose a table and enjoy a wonderful evening with your friends and customers, all for a charitable cause:

  • Table for 8 people: £1,379*,
  • Table of 10 people: £1,723*,
  • Table for 12 people: £2,068*.

Support the event as a sponsor, enjoy dinner with a sports legend and benefit from great visibility!

We have defined 3 sponsorship formulas to be discovered on the following document: Come to Lyon, on 15th March 2024 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Serge Betsen Academy. 

We hope you will be able to join us to celebrate with us!

Please contact us:

mailys@sergebetsenacademy.org / contact@sergebetsenacademy.org / Tel : +34 605 11 2075

Event: over 11,000 € collected during the Rugbusiness Club event, held on January 19 at the Servette Rugby Genève

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On Thursday, January 19, the Servette Rugby Genève and its two sponsors, Helvetia Environnement and Pelichet organised a Rugbusiness Club event, an evening to raise money for charity. The Serge Betsen Academy was the beneficiary association of the event. Serge Betsen had the pleasure of participating to the evening where over 11,000 € were collected for our disadvantaged children in Cameroon and Mali.

 

 

 

 

During this event mixing rugby, solidarity and charity, works of art from our SBA Cameroon artists, bags and cases from Recycling Rugby, three collector jerseys and seats in VIP boxes were sold at auction.

We would like to say a big thank you to the Servette Rugby Genève team for their welcome and support, to the partners and to all the donors who participated in the auctions or made a donation on our platform. It was a very beautiful evening in Geneva, rich in encounters!

 

We want to thank especially:

  • Alain Studer, Alain Vuarnet, Adrien Vigne Donati, Anne Levenard from the Servette Rugby Genève for the organisation of this beautiful event and for their welcome,
  • Vincent Chapel and Mike Sebaut from Helvetia Environnement for their support as a partner of the evening,
  • Stéphane Disant and Régis Serriere from Pelichet for their support as a partner,
  • Quentin Delhoen and his team of Prime & Co.,
  • Etienne Mouthon and Marc Bouchet for their roles as auctioneers,
  • Patrick Lachaussée of the Consulate General of France in Geneva, Philippe Spanghero, Julien Malet, Alexandre Toussaint, Odile Prevot, Jérôme Teiletche for their help prior or during the event,
  • Xavier Lamy, Nora Merad, Etienne Mouthon, Alexandre Ober, Julien Malet, Bernard Bosseau, Mike Chris, Gérard Gabet and Valcoeur Invest, Arthur Bataille, Valéry Ecuyer, Jean-Marie Bouchet for their donations,
  • Gaël Fickou and Romain Taofifénua for their jerseys and their efforts coupled to those of Emile Ntamack to collect the signatures of the internationals of Racing 92 and of Stade Toulousain,
  • Our artists, Philippe and Christelle from the Cameroon SBA-Craft for their works sold at auction, as well as Recycling Rugby for their bags, purses and kits made from recycled rugby balls.

You can watch the video of the event here.

 

Translation : Katy Birgé-Wilson