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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
