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Documentary about the Bymyra project in Gambia by Floris Hendriks

HKU student Floris Hendriks has made a beautiful, half-hour documentary, “BYMYRA,” which depicts the principles, purpose, and inspiration of the Bymyra project in words and images. Ida Ndow, founder of the Bymyra Bilingual School and the Bymyra Skills Centre, Bertie […]  read more

Plant a Conversation – Winter Benefit

Plant a Conversation – Winter Benefit On December 22nd, from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM, students from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Tree Party, and Abdoulie’s foundation, the Green World Activist Foundation, are organizing a winter benefit event at […]  read more

The Cameroon Works! Foundation supports Green World Activist Foundation in The Gambia

The Cameroon Works! Foundation has been selected in the end-of-year gift list for employees of the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (HU). HU staff and student board members can donate (part of) their end-of-year gift to charity. The proceeds […]  read more

Bymyra has its bus!!

Good news. Thanks to the help of friends of Cameroonworks we have enough money to buy a bus. The bus has been put on a container and sails to Dakar where Ida and Modou pick up the bus. Very nice. […]  read more

Substantial steps taken for Bymyra Vocational Education

Since the previous news item on this subject, major steps have been taken towards the realization of the plans for a Bymyra Vocational Education Campus in Kunkujang Mariama Gambia. The collaboration has now led to the purchase of a campus […]  read more

Heroes of Vocational Education in Gambia

Since the previous newsletter 33 of September 8, major steps forward have been made. Especially the students of ROC Tilburg and Ida Ndow, the head of the Bymyra Bilingual School, have been busy! ROC Tilburg The 12 students have jointly […]  read more

Opening Effie’s Design & Tailoring

Great news/ Coming tuesday will be the official opening of Effie’s Design & Tailoring. The past weeks Effie has experimented with different tailors, acting herself as model. So she decided to take one tailor for the ‘normal things’ and one […]  lees verder

The first mushrooms are coming

Growing mushrooms is quite a process. First you build a dark damp room. This space is thoroughly sterilized. By grinding corn on the cob in a specially designed machine, you create the nutritional basis for the mushrooms. Through an intensive […]  read more

66 Gambian(5y), 4 Cameroonian (3y) and 17 Gambian (2y) sponsored children

Thanks to the friends of KameroenWerkt! we are able to sponsor 66 children for 5 years on the Bymyra Bilingual School, 17 children for 2 years via the Bridge-project and 4 Cameroonian children for 3 years .  read more

Working hard on the ‘house’ for the mushrooms

Before the rain season finally arrives, the ‘house’ (the nursery) for the mushrooms must be ready.  Building there is still completely done by hand. A team of about 27 day laborers worked hard the whole day and the evening.  read more