In January of 2006 an even smaller selection of those first-years traveled to Cameroon with Dr. Yewah and another professor, Dr. Dianne Guenin-Lelle. We toured the country of Cameroon from a very personal perspective, having Dr. Yewah as our guide. 

As a part of our trip we went to Dr. Yewah's home village, Batchingou. There, we played with the children of the school, met with the chief and were confronted with a difficult reality. A small school within the village that used to educate half of the children had recently been closed because it was falling apart. Upon visiting the school we saw dirt floors, walls missing gaps of bricks, desks that were unsafe, virtually no roof whatsoever.

Upon returning to Albion College that spring semester a small group of us decided that we needed to use the resources we had to help these amazing kids.

We called ourselves The Nwagni Project. "Nwagni" means school, education and learning in Si'ie, a bantu language spoken in Batchingou. We chose "Nwagni" because it represents our desire to learn and to educate.

Soon after we established our group, we began to develop a plan. We would need to raise at least $25,000 by Christmas of 2007 in order to bring the money back to Batchingou with the First Year Experience program to build the new school. We would also need to get other people involved, there was no way we would be able to do this on our own.

We made connections in and outside of the Albion Community and met some fascinating people who inspired us to raise our goal to $100,000 in the next three years.

In the fall of 2006 we made a connection with Jim Cascarelli, the owner of Cascarelli's of Albion. Thanks to this friendship, we planned and executed a successful spaghetti dinner fundraiser that raised $1,600 on ticket sales alone. We sold 225 tickets and had a full house!

Upon returning to Albion's campus for spring 2007 we joined forces with several other organizations on campus including The Bitone Project, an organization working to raise funds for kids in Uganda affected by the ongoing war.

We are currently working on coordinating an African themed fundraising dinner for April of this year, as well as other events to raise awareness about our cause.