Tim Munnerlyn challenged his colleagues at the American Community School of Abu Dhabi to give up alcohol for the month of February. Borrowing the idea from an initiative he learned about while visiting Australia he pledged to have a healthy start to 2011 by abstaining from consuming any booze for 28 days and invited anyone […]
The school in the Thalahena community in Sri Lanka now has a new school thanks to our many generous contributors! We are incredibly excited to share this news with you along with photos of the student’s that will be attending this school (above) and a picture of the school itself (below). Thanks again to all […]
We are pleased to share that we are close to a new school in the Chismaute community in Ecuador. As you can see by the picture above and below that we are very close to transforming local children into students. Stay tuned and we will let you know when classes start!
Building Walls of Wisdom is happy to share a video that outlines our current project in Ghana. In this video you will see where our building will be constructed and you will hear from the individuals whose lives will benefit from its construction. Enjoy!
Robin Wiszowaty is the Kenya program director with Free the Children, and oversaw the construction our very first project in Emori Joi. Robin was born and raised in Schaumburg, Illinois, but she currently splits her time between Toronto and her adoptive home of Kenya. In her early twenties, Robin went to live in a Masai […]
A new year also brings Building Walls of Wisdom a new project! With the successful completion of the fundraising required for the Sri Lanka project just last month, we thought we would start this year off right with an updated website and another great opportunity to help a community in need. This year we will […]
Building Walls of Wisdom is thrilled to announce that we have now reached our fundraising goal for our next school house in Sri Lanka. This is an exciting step as in just under two years, BWoW (thanks to our generous contributors) has been able to secure funding for three projects! The community of Thalahena in […]
The Building Walls of Wisdom founder, Geoff Morgan, and our director of publications, Emma Wilmot, recently took a trip to Sri Lanka to visit the community where the new school is to be built. Below is Geoff’s reflection on the trip and the community that we will be helping. Sri Lanka has to be one […]
The Spring 2010 community report for Chismaute has been just provided to Building Walls of Wisdom from Free the Children. Follow the link below to see how the community has been changing since our involvement. Chismaute Spring 2010 Community Report —– Header photo credit: srgblog on Flickr
This update from Free the Children comes to us in a format that we at Building Walls of Wisdom were excited to see — a video. Below is a first hand look at some the individuals that make up the Emori Joi community and how we have collectively made an impact in this small region […]
