The Nwagni Project is a student-run organization on Albion College’s Michigan campus to assist the villagers in Batchingou, Cameroon. In January, 2006 a group of Albion college students travelled to Cameroon with two Albion professors, one whose home village is Batchingou. The students learned the village school had been closed because of deteriorating conditions and visited the school with dirt floors, walls missing gaps of bricks, unsafe desks and virtually no roof.

Upon returning to the USA, the students formed the Nwagni (means ’school, education and learning’) Project to raise at least $25,000 by Christmas 2007 to re-build this school and to form alliances with partners who could assist in the cause. Because of the generosity of donors, the fundraising goal was increased to $100,000.

This December and January a group of Albion students and staff will spend twenty days in Cameroon building Batchingou’s new elementary school.

Other goals of the Nwagni Project include digging wells for clean drinking water, helping establish a sustainable health care system, creating jobs and establishing relationships and awareness between Americans and the people of Cameroon.

Donation information and other info on Cameroon is available on their website.