On November 2nd, Building Walls of Wisdom was invited to speak to the students at City School in Toronto. We shared with the students how living in developing countries differs to first World cities, like Toronto. Examples of disparity between the first and 3rd world were presented; for example, Canada has a clean, household water […]
Building Walls of Wisdom was recently covered by one of Abu Dhabi’s major periodicals. The National, and its journalist Ranika Talwar Dadam, wrote an article that summarized BuildWoW’s journey to date and took a close look at our current project in Ghana. We are extremely excited that more people have been made aware about some […]
250 students in the community of Chismaute in Ecuador are enjoying their new school thanks to BuildWoW contributors. We are happy to share with you the photo below along with the 2011 report for this community. Through the hard work of the local community and our partners, this construction for this project finished in January […]
The story behind the small community of Adubiliyili is truly compelling. As you may know this hardworking community built their initial school block only to see it one building crumble and another severely compromised in a storm this past May. This is a big reason why BuildWoW has taken on this project; our largest project […]
In amazing turn of events, BuildWoW is proud to announce that thanks to the members of the Tua community we are now building two classrooms! During the initial stages of construction volunteers from the community dug the foundation, mixed cement and provided general labour saving us enough money in labour costs to fund a second […]
Building Walls of Wisdom is proud to announce our 3rd project in northern Ghana, in the community of Adubiliyili, where community members often survive on an annual income of less than $400 dollars and the majority of people cannot read or write. We have decided to take on the challenge of building and repairing an […]
The construction at Tua Primary in Northern Ghana has started! Teams are have started molding the blocks that will be used as the walls for this new building that will be enjoyed by students and faculty alike. Since this is the most time consuming part of the construction phase, we predict the new school will […]
We are excited to announce that we have secured the funding necessary to build the 357 students and teachers at Dungu primary a new school building! The completion of this project marks the halfway point for our goal of building 10 schools by 2019. Years ago the residents of this small community in northern Ghana […]
Recently, as senior class from the American Community School of Abu Dhabi went above and beyond to help the community of Tua in Ghana. This group of students banded together (no pun intended) and put on Senior Night – an event full of music, dances, and many other well received performances. There was a lot […]
After the overwhelming response from the BWoW two-year anniversary doubler, we are thrilled to have raised more than enough funding to complete our most recent project in Ghana – Tua Primary. Since the original donations (before doubling) were allocated to the Tua Primary project, it felt only natural to rollover the remaining funds to an […]
