Headed back to Cameroon

After more than three months of pouring myself, full-time, into my work with Breaking Ground, I am finally headed back to Cameroon. These past months have been full of administrative work: correspondence, fundraising, grant writing, and other paper work. The big news is that we received a grant from the Obakki Foundation to build the Keuleng Preschool and Community Center. Work is already underway, and in just over a week's time, enormous progress has been made. You can check out updates on the project on our website.

In addition to hearing about our projects, I've vowed to keep this blog updated while I'm traveling in Cameroon throughout the months of December and January. There's a lot of exciting work going on as I work to further establish Breaking Ground's capacity as an organization in Cameroon. I'll be reporting on my progress here, along with the various other anecdotes that inevitably come with travel.

Be well, and be in touch!

On est ensemble,
Lindsay

Work is underway in Keuleng!

Check out these photos of the astounding progress made this past week. Having already invested almost two decades of savings into the project, the community had already laid the building's stone foundation and built its cement columns. In just a week since the funds were transferred to Keuleng to begin construction, cinder blocks have already been made and the walls are being erected under the guidance of a local civil engineer.

The Chief of Keuleng (left) in front of the quickly rising walls.

A sand delivery (left) and drying cinder blocks (right).

Cinder blocks being laid on the already-built foundation.