Photos

Here are some shots of a 3D rendering of what the boarding school building and grounds will look like once completed.

In no particular order of importance, below are different tasks that we completed during the visit:

• Roofing the library building
• Installing the doors and windows
• Completing the slab flooring of the school building
• Moving the machine to a safe location
• Starting the registration process of the blockyard business
• Recruiting a new project manager
• Holding our 1st official meeting with Aumazo Cameroonian team
• Meeting with the Bankondji elite group in Douala
• Meeting with the Director of Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Yaoundé

Check back often for updates.

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More About The Grant Benefits

Since its founding in 2005, AUMAZO, INC. has been guided by its enduring principles of innovation, excellence and integrity, as well as a commitment to steadily improve the way it conducts nonprofit business. At Aumazo, we are fully aware that our accomplishments are not simply attributable to “genius” leadership or our hard work. We grow and prosper only because we found some great friends like you who show loyal support.

In 2010, we invested in a hydraulic block machine that produces interlocking dry stacked soil-cement and environmentally friendly blocks. As a result of your contribution to our matching grant challenge, workers are currently on-site raising the walls of the school with the blocks that our machine helps make. See the pictures below, and check back regularly for updates.

The machine will also provide a revenue stream that will allow us to sustain the operating costs of the school. This has been possible only because of the contribution made by people like you.

I know how much you care about our girls’ education program and I am overwhelmed to see your love of the Aumazo Project, manifested through your generous gestures.

We hope your support will continue in the future. In the fiscal year of 2012-13, we plan to raise the walls and furnish at least two classrooms to welcome the first 50 girls. We rely on your tax-deductible donations to fuel the progress of the project.

The future of Aumazo looks bright, and the board and I want to acknowledge our donors’ contributions to this rosy outlook. They are telling others about our project and encouraging them to consider supporting us. Keep up the good work and share this news with others.

Again, thank you for your support.

J.A

Here are a few bricks featuring the names of our most recent special donors. Without your efforts, this project would not be advancing as quickly as it is. Thank you for your support and for encouraging others to participate as well.

An Anonymous Donor decided to give $10,000 to AUMAZO, INC. this year. How wonderful is that? However, there is a twist. Instead of depositing the money directly into AUMAZO, INC. bank account, the person asked us to match it. Here’s the full story in her own words:

“Hello everyone,

I am donating this $10,000 to AUMAZO, INC. by April 12, 2012; however, I’m asking the CEO and the Board of directors of AUMAZO, to match it before I release the funds to the organization.
I chose AUMAZO, INC. because it is a cause that is near and dear to my family and me!
Please consider raising the matching funds, and together we can help bring education to girls in Cameroon.

Thank you and much love,
Anonymous Donor”

Please help us spread the word and build a movement to match this grant!! You can start by making a donation if you can. We’re lucky to have friends that care enough to give this much to AUMAZO, INC.
If you can’t give now, we’d really appreciate it if you’d share this challenge with others.

Thank you!

- Team Aumazo

Please contact us for more information or send your donations in so that we can put them to good use immediately. We sincerely appreciate every one of your efforts.

“Aumazo’s ultimate goal is to build a boarding school that will become self-sustaining.”

Given the difficulties of establishing steady goals in a volatile and changing financial environment, and to address our funding challenge, we invested in a hydraulic block machine that produces interlocking dry stacked soil-cement and environmentally friendly blocks.

The machine is ideal for working on remote sites where the use of electricity is not an option. This machine will help us produce our own bricks to complete the construction of the boarding school and also provide a revenue stream that will allow us to sustain the operating costs of the school.

The machine arrived in Bankondji late July 2011 (see picture with father Sylvestre). We are establishing a block yard production business. This business consists of producing blocks/bricks that will be sold to homeowners and other builders around the country. The sale of blocks will generate revenue that will be reinvested in the school to cover operating costs.

However, there is still a great challenge to overcome before reaching this final goal. We need to raise $50,000. This money will help us cover the cost of diesel, tools and materials for the setup of the block yard and training.

The manufacturer scheduled a training in November 28, 2011. A technician from the company will come on site in Cameroon to setup the machine for use and train Aumazo workers on operation, usage and maintenance of the machine.

We are starting a fundraiser to bring in the necessary funds needed to cover to operate the machine, manufacture bricks and cover the training costs. Each block costs $1 to production. Aumazo staff and board have launched a $1/brick campaign to raise the first $50,000 by November 28, 2011.

We do not take for granted your involvement in our Project Aumazo. However we want you to know that your invaluable support is very much appreciated by the staff and Aumazo board.

We need your help. Please support our fundraising effort.

Last year, thanks to friends, family, volunteers, and the public’s involvement, Aumazo was ranked among the Great Nonprofits’ Top-Rated List of Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits. This year we want to do things bigger, with more reviews, to make it onto this honorable list again. All you have to do is write a review about Aumazo, what you think about our mission, any thoughts you have about our efforts, whether you’ve seen them firsthand or have only read about them.

This is your chance to get involved, show you care, and help us continue in making a difference. It really takes no time at all and the end result is priceless, recognition and greater support!

>> Write a review now!

Learn more about >> last year’s initiative.

Thanks again for your continued support!