BuildWoW goes to camp!

Earlier this month, Building Walls of Wisdom was invited to a leadership camp in Ontario, Canada to speak to a great group of teenagers. Camp Quality New Heights is a camp that hosts teens that have cancer, are in remission, or have a sibling that has any form of the disease. Our Executive Director, Russ, […]

BuildWoW featured by the Telfer School of Management

Our Executive Director, Russ, was recently featured in an article by his alma mater – The University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management. Russ completed his undergraduate honours degree in Marketing way back in 2005. We are happy that the Telfer School of Management was willing to share our story with their alumni community! Click […]

BuildWoW featured in The International Educator

Building Walls of Wisdom was recently featured in The International Educator; a periodical to speaks to a vast community of educators around the world. Special thanks goes to our very own Dave Young for both writing and submitting the article! Simply click the image below to enlarge.

Three years of Eradicating Poverty Through Education

We don’t just see the world. We interpret it through our ideas and beliefs, which are shaped by our culture, our education, and by the people who surround us. All of these barriers stand between us and the raw experiences of the world. They act as filters impacting how we perceive, how we think and […]

Emori Joi revisited (literally)

The Building Walls of Wisdom Executive Director, Russ Morgan, recently took a trip to Africa to visit all of our active projects. Below is his reflection on his trip to our first school in Kenya. This past November I had the opportunity to visit the very first Building Walls of Wisdom school house ever built. […]

Blue prints to graphic renders

Curious to know what our new school block in Adubiliyili will look like? Thankfully, thanks to the help of our friend Patrick Spear, you will not need to use your imagination alone. After taking a look at some of the blue prints for a similar three classroom school block, Partick was able to develop a […]

Adubiliyili – Video Update

Please watch and share our most recent video update about our current project in Adubiliyili. It is with your help that we can hope to get a new school block constructed as soon as possible! To learn more about this project, please click here. To contribute, please click here.

Tua build complete! – Video Update

Tua Primary now has two new classrooms thanks to Building Walls of Wisdom contributors! Please enjoy a video update that was filmed when our Executive Director, Russ, visited the Tua Primary this past November. The finishing touches of the school were put on just after the video below was filmed – enjoy! Thanks again to […]

Dungu – Video Update

We are pleased to announce that the classroom we have constructed in almost complete! Please enjoy a video update that was filmed when our Executive Director, Russ, visited the Dungu this past November. Thank you to all who helped make this project a reality.

Visiting Ghana

The Building Walls of Wisdom Executive Director, Russ Morgan, recently took a trip to Africa to visit all of our active projects there. Below is his reflection on his trip to Ghana and the communities that we are involved with. This past November, I had the opportunity to visit Building Walls of Wisdom projects in […]