This week we have a short behind the scenes update on Design Cause. After a summer of strategizing and coming up with new campaigns for the fall, September started with a bang. We launched our first event of a fall event series and we began working with an outside partner who agreed to help with a substantial portion of the fundraising. This was all very exciting and allowed us to work on more of the logistics of how things would function once we were in Cameroon and to set u

As I have become more familiar with how we're going to achieve our goal of building classrooms in Cameroon, I've started to gain a broader understanding of the local building materials there and what they represent to the community. Each material varies greatly in terms of accessibility, price, durability, and sustainability. But on a deeper level, these materials also reflect cultural day-to-day practices of a region, and even a community's social status. There are more or l