The Brett Bentley Crawford Foundation

Kate’s Reflection on her Journey to Nicaragua in Feb 2018.

BBC Foundation — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 23:15:11 +0000

2018 Nicaraguan Trip Update

In February of 2018, Brett’s sister Kate travelled to Nicaragua to tour the growing group of schools that our foundation has worked to build in Brett’s name. By this point, we have built so many schools that seeing all of them in just four days is not quite [...]

Help Us Build the 7th Brett School in Nicaragua!

BBC Foundation — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:19:10 +0000

The Brett Bentley Crawford Foundation is thrilled to partner with SchoolBOX to build the Brett #7 School in the community of Las Noventas in Chinandega, Nicaragua in 2019. The children of Las Noventas did not have any school in their community until a teacher named Gema Picado began teaching there with a small salary paid [...]

Brett #6 School Inaugurated

BBC Foundation — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:09:44 +0000

Our 6th school built in honour of Brett Bentley Crawford is a gift to the kids at Josefa Toledo. Though hit with drought followed by heavy rains during the construction of this school, the community showed remarkable resilience and gave their all to help us complete it. They know education is the key to giving [...]

Brett’s 5th School Complete!

BBC Foundation — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:32:07 +0000

On August 25th, the Brett #5 “Mirna Martinez” School was completed. Brett’s light continues to shine on in the lives of thousands of children in Nicaragua who attend schools built in memory of her. This was the fifth school built by the Crawford family and named in Brett’s honour.

The school was a labour of [...]

Brett’s Third and Fourth Schools finished!

BBC Foundation — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:41:30 +0000

Since our Foundation undertook this initiative to provide schools in Nicaragua to children that would otherwise have no opportunity to gain an education, it has built four new schools at the rate of one each school each year.

Brett’s third school was built in Jardines de Apoyo, another small community that had been relocated to [...]

Brett’s second school completed! Enrollment doubled expectations

BBC Foundation — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:10:50 +0000

The second Brett Bentley Crawford School has completed and as of March of 2014 the expected enrollment had doubled! While 120 students were attending school at the previous school, a homemade structure of recycled materials, 244 students have enrolled! This is an amazing achievement, transforming the realities of the children of this tiny [...]

Update on The Brett Bentley Crawford Foundation School

BBC Foundation — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:12:45 +0000

Dear Friends of the Crawford Extended Family:

Many of you are aware of the tragic death of our beloved Brett and the foundation we subsequently established in her name, The Brett Bentley Crawford Foundation. We started this foundation in an effort to keep Brett’s memory alive and to continue her commitment to help [...]

The Second Brett Bentley Crawford School is taking shape!

BBC Foundation — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:13:28 +0000

Thanks to your generosity and that of others we have raised over $50,000 to be invested directly into the second school in Nicaragua named after our beloved daughter/sibling, Brett Bentley Crawford. Between our foundation and some additional donations from interested supporters we have commitments for the money required to build the school, [...]