The Building Walls of Wisdom’s founder, Geoff Morgan, was recently invited to speak at the American International School in Kuwait as part of their International Day celebration. During the opening assembly he shared some of his experiences, a few of his dreams and the story of Building Walls of Wisdom with an audience of over […]
Building Walls of Wisdom is thrilled to announce that we have exceeded our fundraising goal for the Tua Primary School project! Not only will we be able to construct a desperately needed classroom for the community but we can also purchase much needed educational materials for the school as well. With the construction of a […]
A message from BWoW’s founder. Sitting in a coffee shop two years ago I started composing an email about my experiences with poverty and how they had affected me. I shared that after a decade of traveling the world in search of a more meaningful understanding of the world we inhabit, how nothing had affected […]
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 […]
