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 […]
Due to the overwhelming success of our Ecuador project and the encouragement from several Building Walls of Wisdom members we have decided to launch a second initiative for 2010. We will be participating in the rebuilding of a community destroyed in the 2004 tsunami on the east coast of Sri Lanka. In the coming months […]
The spring 2010 community report for Emori Joi 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 the construction of the new school house. Emori Joi Spring 2010 Community Report
After a great turn out to the Groove Diggers event held last weekend, Espresso matching all donations dollar for dollar, and all of the contributions we received over the last several weeks – we are thrilled to announce that we have secured funding for the construction of our second school! We will be building this school within […]
It is with great excitement that Building Walls of Wisdom can announce that we are just past the half-way mark for our second project. In just a couple of months many people have come together from around the world and help bring this project closer to reality. We are thrilled to extend our thanks to […]
We are excited to announce that our 2009 Kenya project in the Emori Joy region is now complete. Alongside this news we were also provided with the following update: “The students in the Emori Joi community are excited to start a new school year. The pupils have now joined new grades and are looking forward […]
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce that for our project in 2010 we will be building a school in Ecuador. Within the Ecuadorian community we will be working in, only 10% of children go on to secondary school and the male literacy rate is 70% whereas female literacy is only 40%. By building […]
Last year our dream became reality as over forty individuals joined Building Walls of Wisdom’s pledge to eradicate poverty through the development of education. Our small organization secured the funding for our first schoolhouse/classroom in Kenya in just four months. Small actions can indeed manifest themselves into substantial change! In partnership with Free the Children […]
