Thursday 17th July 2008.

The United States Ambassador to Cameroon, Her Excellency Mrs. Janet E. GARVEY has donated a soccer kit, shoes and equipment valued at over 350,000 CFA to the African Volunteer Football Academy for the Less Privileged. The soccer gear and equipment donation were handed over to Mrs. Mary Jangha, the chairlady of the academy, on Thursday 17th July at AVFAL's head office in Limbe.

The Academy was founded with the aim of providing young players with higher standard of training in soccer. “Training people while still young is of utmost importance, as it is the stage that a footballer develops and will reach his/her maximum potential later in life,” said Mrs. Jangha. The academy aims at teaching young people the basic principles of sport thereby preparing them for future role in our national teams. It also strives to keep them off the streets and prevent them from engaging in criminal activities. Mrs. Jangha further asserted that, “It has long been the battle-cry in Cameroon that enough is not being done to develop and improve the undoubted natural talents in soccer” available in the country.

Presently, there are 300 youngsters and three soccer trainers at the academy. There are efforts under way to expand the academy to ensure that it accesses most previously disadvantaged children currently at an advanced stage. The Academy is also working on a plan to incorporate a female team and is therefore calling on all Cameroonians, home and abroad and from all works of life to support in order for them to realise the dream of constructing the first charitable football Academy in Cameroon.

Monday 4th February 2008.

Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

AVFAL President, Mr. John Kemoe Bengu has been invited to Manchester by the Youth Chapter, one of our sponsors. He shall be meeting with representatives of other clubs the Youth Chapter had carried out projects with. The purpose of this visit is to seek sponsorship for the construction of the first charitable football Academy in Cameroon. He shall also be collecting material donation needed for the lunching of the female sector of our community development through football project.

Monday December 24, 2007.

AVFAL's President Message to our Friends and Supporters.

Saturday December 15 2007.

AVFAL Cadet Team traveled today morning at 9am to Tiko for the last day of play in this years youth tournament against Manga Nkokho Football Academy. This match was very decisive since they had lost the previous match and needed a victory. The Tiko municipal stadium was full to welcome the visitors who are popularly know in Tiko as a raising Academy with many talented young coaches and players. AVFAL defeated Manga Knokho Football Academy 3-1. The children were extremely happy to have finished this first round of with 10 points from five games. They went on Christmas Vacation happily and promised to do better when they return during the first week of January to carry the team into the Provincial level.

Saturday December 08 2007.

AVFAL cadet youth team played against Continental Youth football Academy in Limbe community field. It was Day four matches for the on-going youth tournament organised by The Cameroon Football Federation. The African volunteer football Academy for the less privileged conceived their first defeat in the on-going tournament as continental won 2-1. The coaches had to regroup the players and informed about a needed victory in their up coming match in Tiko on the final day so as to preserve their chances of qualifying for the provincial tournament.

Sunday December 2nd 2007.

Today at the Municipal stadium in Tiko, AVFAL played against Tiko United Football Academy. AVFAL opened the score at the 8 minute of play through sticker Valentine but Tiko United equalised at the 37th minute due to a defensive error. After the break AVFAL took the lead again but 10 minute later it was 2-2. AVFAL was offered a penalty at the 86th minute of play but were unable to take this advantage. Despite the 2-2 draw, the Coach was happy with his players, since this is the first time they have travelled out of town to play a major football Match. We think they are progressing and will make it to the finals of the competition. AVFAL now has seven points after three games.

Saturday November 24th 2007.

AVFAL defeated Dynamic Football Academy today at the Limbe community field .The score was 2-1 in favour of AVFAL. Team Captain Franklin Bengu was happy with the victory and promised to return to Limbe with another victory when the team travels to Tiko next Sunday. The Technical Director was happy with the progress of his players. He said “With this victory we are now leading our pool and we have to work harder to obtain a victory in Tiko next week".

Saturday November 17th 2007.

AVFAL played it first match today against Month Cameroon Football Academy for the on going National Youth Tournament organised by the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT). AVFAL was captain by Franklin Bengu and his team won 3 goals to 2. This is their first victory and the executives and players were all happy.

Friday 2nd November 2007.

Mr. Tom Legale of Canada has posted five cartons of used soccer equipment to the African Volunteer Football Academy for the Less privileged (AVFAL) through the Canadian Post. Pictures of these donations can be seen on our website. These materials would go a long way to enable us effectively carryout our objective of providing soccer training and materials to the needy children in our community. We want to thank Mr. Tom Legare for his generous donation and we encourage many more donations of this nature.

Friday 2nd November 2007.

The National Youth Football League tournament for young people below 15 years has been launched. The President of the Cameroon Football Federation, FECAFOOT, Mohammed Iya, launched it over the week end in Limbe, Southwest Province. AVFAL F.C is among the 13 teams in Fako Division that shall participate in the competition. Fako shall produce a flag bearer for an inter-divisional dwell that shall finally produce the Provincial representative by March 2008. The national final has been scheduled for April 2008.

The youth league will enhance the growth of youth football and an opportunity for elite teams to find selected talents to boost their teams, according to FECAFOOT officials.

The competition will also enable kids to test their skills. On hand to witness the launching were former Lions like Michel Kaham, Manga Onguene, among others.

Monday 15th October 2007.

The President of AVFAL, Mr. John Kemoe Bengu and Ms. Eun Jung Decker of Play for Life International signed a Partnership Agreement today between the two Organisations. This is the first of its kind. It has already begun with a Cultural exchange program involving 21 children.

Thursday 4th October 2007.

The Technical Director Mr. Bikolo Lucas received an official Invitation from the Organisers of the Limbe International youth tournament taking Place in limbe this December. AVFAL would be represented in the following categories i.e. Mimin and Cadet.

He also announced the lunching of Training session as of Monday 8 October 2007. The Venue would be the Limbe centenary Stadium and the time is 4pm. Old and new players are all welcome. Training equipment would be provided for those who don't have. Each and every talented young player is welcome.

Monday October 1st 2007.

The African Volunteer Football Academy today received 7 cartons of used Soccer Equipment donated by the United States Soccer Foundation. This equipment was collected by AVFAL's technical director Mr. Bikoko Lucas. We want to thank the United States Soccer Foundation Passback program for their wonderful support.

Monday August 20^th, 2007.

The Limbe city inter-quarters tournament organized by the Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council ended yesterday with Wotalo F.C winning the trophy. AVFAL F.C won a fair play team trophy. AVFAL F.C was eliminated at the quarter finals of the tournament by Wotalo F.C.

Monday August 13th, 2007.

The Cultural exchange program between Augusta Prep School and AVFAL has actually started with almost 80 students in Cameroon willing to have pen pals over the Atlantic Ocean. Here is the list of interesting students and if you are also willing to contact any of them just write a letter with the students name and address it to us i.e.

Keegan Djomo Steeve,

AVFAL,

P.O Box 1218.LIMBE,

SOUTH WEST PROVINCE,

CAMEROON.

Date: Thursday August 2nd 2007.

Steven C. Fear, Passback Program Director has sent 8 boxes of Soccer Equipment to AVFAL through the United States Postal System. Typically the International surface shipping process takes from 2-8months for the equipment to arrive Cameroon.

We want to thank the people of the United States of America and the staffs of the United States Soccer Foundation for their generous donation to AVFAL.

Date: Monday July 23rd 2007.

AVFAL has today qualified for the Quarter finals of this year Inter-Quarters competition after topping their pool with 10 points. They won three of their matches, drew one and lost one. The following youth players are those actually representing AVFAL in this years Limbe City Inter-Quarter Youth Tournament organised by the Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council.

Date: Friday July 13th 2007.

The President of AVFAL Mr. John Kemoe Bengu today announced the establishment of a Cultural Exchange program between students of Augusta Prep school and AVFAL. It would be a pen pal cultural exchange program between the two schools. The ages of the children are from 11 to 15 years old. Interested children are welcome to Avfal head office with documents containing information on their age, gender and language of communication. The program will start fully this Fall and there shall be 50-75 children in the program.

Date: Monday July 9th 2007.

Coach Forrest Wimberley of Augusta prep school donated a box of soccer items on Monday, July 9. The box contains 20 yellow and blue striped jerseys, 15 shorts, practice equipment (cones, vests, equipment bag), and a soccer ball. He also included some soccer patches from local clubs and tournaments in Georgia that could be share to the players.

Date: Friday 22nd June 2007.

Flt Lt Neil Hope today in RAF Shawbury ATC Squadron (UK) donated a box of soccer jerseys to AVFAL. The box includes 11 Pro-star shirts, 2 Goalkeepers shirts and 12 Leeds shirts. This donation is going to provide us with some of the basic soccer equipments needed for our project and we welcome further donations of this nature.

Date: Monday June 18th 2007.

The Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council has officially invited AVFAL to participate at this years Limbe Summer youth inter-quarters football tournament. AVFAL will play their first official Match on Monday the 25th of June 2007. Since our creation in 2005, we have been an active participant at this yearly summer competition organised by the Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council.

Date: Wednesday May 16th 2007.

Kid Aid International donated 10 boxes of new and used soccer equipment to AVFAL .These boxes contained new soccer balls, several jerseys, Frisbees and soccer track suits. These donations were received in London by Mr. Fru Asaba, AVFAL's foreign representative. This equipment is still in London (UK) as we seek sponsors to help ship the equipment to Limbe, Cameroon.

Date: Friday December 1st 2006.

AVFAL received a donation of 17 full Soccer Kit from the Youth Chapter (UK). This donation comes after the Youth Charter Soccer wise Education packs were distributed to the less privileged children. These gifts were sent by Janice Argyle on behalf of Geoff Thompson.