European Championship
Next competition. The new official total will be added to the sports counter: €50 to raise for every kilogram lifted.
Training the next generation of sports professionals in Cameroon and Central Africa.
Led by Eloi ENEGUE MBONGO, reigning Belgian powerlifting champion.
2.65 ha
Titled land
6
Specialisations
2,000
Students at full capacity
Architect's rendering · projection
“In Cameroon, I had to give up elite sport. It wasn't a choice. There were simply no facilities.”
Eloi ENEGUE MBONGO
A second-dan judo black belt who was selected several times for Cameroon's national team, Eloi was nevertheless never able to make a living from sport there. He arrived in Belgium in 2007 as a biology PhD student at UCL and found everything that was missing back home: coaching, facilities, training pathways. So he put his thesis on hold, trained for a career in sport, and set out to build what should have existed twenty years earlier: IPFSE.
2007
Arrives in Belgium
2009
Biology PhD student, UCL
ADEPS · UCL
Certified instructor and coach
2026
Belgian powerlifting champion (Masters 1, -105 kg)
“I want young Cameroonians to stop having to choose between their passion and their future.”
2026 Belgian Championship · Photos LIFT Media × KURO
“To carry this project, I decided to put my body to work for its funding.”
Every kilogram lifted in official competition adds €50 to the IPFSE fundraising target. Three competitions shape the campaign through autumn 2027.
Press coverage
2026 Belgian Championship
Squat
182.5 kg
Bench press
112.5 kg
Deadlift · LFPH record
280 kg
Total · LFPH record
575 kg
575 kg × €50
€28,750
Sports challenge target, to be raised in donations
Squat · 2026 Belgian Championship · Royal Belgian Powerlifting Federation
World Championship
The last competition of the cycle. The final total will set the counter's target, to be turned into donations for whichever phase is then under way.
Sporting performance alone won't fund the institute. Every contribution closes the gap.
Donate on GoFundMeA private higher-education institute in Mekoumbou, Yaoundé.
A 2.65-hectare site. 2,000 places at full capacity. Three planned departments. Six specialisations leading to a diploma. One ambition: train the professionals Cameroon's sports sector has needed for twenty years.
Sport
Experts in adapted physical activity, performance and return-to-sport training. A scientific foundation, intensive practice, internships.
Management
Sports managers and entrepreneurs. Accounting, sports law, career management, business development.
Movement sciences
Rehabilitation and movement therapy: sports physiotherapy, osteopathy, sports psychology.
Six specialisations leading to a diploma
- Physical education and sport
- Sports coaching
- Sports physiotherapy
- Osteopathy
- Dietetics and sports nutrition
- Sports management
The project isn't waiting for the campaign to move forward.
Before a single euro was raised, the founder invested his own resources. Four milestones are already in place.
Ministerial authorisation
Institute authorised by ministerial order of 3 June 2021.
Architectural phase
Architectural studies and plans for the campus commissioned and paid for (€25,154).
Titled land
Mekoumbou site titled: €15,000 committed to the land tax and to obtaining the land title.
2.65 ha
Valued at ≈ €795,000 · €30/m²
Complete technical file
Soil survey, topography, land survey, 2D plans, 3D models, structural calculations, site plan.
Ready
to build
What the campaign funds builds on a foundation already laid. It doesn't replace it.
94%
of Cameroon's need for sports professionals goes unmet today.
300 professionals / year
is all that the public institutions (INJS, ISEP-FM) train, against an estimated need of 5,000.
Inspired by the Aspire Academy (Qatar), INSEP (France) and European STAPS degrees: an internationally proven approach that doesn't yet exist in Cameroon. And a huge number of people need it, including 10 million Cameroonians living with a chronic illness that calls for adapted physical activity.
Six phases. Only one to fund today.
A university campus isn't funded in one go. It's built in stages, and each one opens the next. Three are already behind us, paid for from the founder's own funds. The fourth is open, and it's the only one we're asking for help with today.
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Phase 1 · 2021 Done In progress Coming next
Ministerial authorisation
Institute authorised by order of the Ministry of Higher Education, 3 June 2021.
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Phase 2 Done In progress Coming next
Land acquisition
2.65 hectares in Mekoumbou, Yaoundé. Land title obtained, land held by the project's promoter. Estimated value €795,000 at €30/m²: an asset of the project, not a campaign expense.
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Phase 3 Done In progress Coming next
Technical and architectural studies
Soil survey, topography, land survey, 2D plans, 3D models, structural calculations, site plan. The file is signed by Cabinet Benedic NKOA, DPLG architect (ONAC 187), and dated May 2025: plans, sections and elevations building by building. The project is ready to build.
Architect's renderings · projection · Cabinet Benedic NKOA
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Phase 4 Done In progress Coming next
A self-sufficient building site
Equipping the site with its own production tools, to build cheaper and faster.
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Phase 5 Done In progress Coming next
Construction of the first buildings
Administration, classrooms, a multi-sport gym, a fitness room open to the public. Enough to launch the first courses.
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Phase 6 Done In progress Coming next
Full campus development
Expanded facilities, research, residences, the campus's economic activities.
Phase 4: giving the site its own tools.
A dump truck and a brick machine. Two purchases that lower the cost of every square metre built for the whole length of the project, and that earn money when they're not in use.
Phase 4 target
€50,000
€1,702 already raised on the fundraiser, from 30 contributions.
Alongside this, Eloi's sports challenge sets a target of €28,750 (€50 per kilo lifted), to be raised in donations. This is not money received.
€50,000 so the site can work with its own machines.
You're not funding an entire campus. You're finishing the current stage.
Donate on GoFundMeTwo tools that work for the campus.
These two purchases reduce construction costs over the long term, speed up the work, and generate their own income between projects. That is what the current phase is about.
€40,000
Second-hand dump truck
Today, the cost of materials comes less from the sand than from moving it: of a trip billed at €300, €200 is truck rental. With our own truck, the same trip costs €150: €100 for the sand, €50 for fuel, maintenance and a driver.
Trip with a rented truck
€300
With our own truck
€150
Over ≈ 1,000 trips
≈ €150,000
Enough to cover the truck's price nearly four times over, with the rest reinvested in buildings, sports equipment and teaching materials.
Off the site, the truck is rented out to companies and local authorities: a lasting source of income for the project.
€10,000
Compressed-earth brick machine
Making the bricks on site from local materials. Less transport, controlled materials, deadlines kept and a greener build.
Between building phases, it produces for other projects: here too, the machine generates income.
If the phase exceeds its target
+ €40,000
A mini-excavator would bring the phase to its full scope, €90,000, and cut the cost of renting earthmoving equipment.
A donation that buys a tool doesn't fund one project. It funds every one that follows.
A private university campus dedicated entirely to sport and health, something Cameroon doesn't yet have.
2,000 places at full capacity, six specialisations leading to a diploma, and a business model able to fund its own growth. Every phase completed brings it closer.
Other ways to help
Do you know a construction company, a contractor or a local authority replacing or parting with a dump truck in good condition? A donation, a sale at a reduced price to support the project, or simply an introduction would move the campus forward as much as a gift of money.