We are pleased to publish our latest newsletter, which you can download and print if you wish. You will see that we haven't included any pictures in this edition - that is because we had SO MUCH we wanted to say following our recent visit to Cameroon that there...
Imagine our delight when we opened the post today to find this note and a donation of £2. Thank you very much, Sam.
Young Amelie Hindle is a regular fundraiser for us. She is currently helping her dad, Andrew, raise enough funds to construct classrooms and clean water at Ngouekong King Place primary school in Babadjou, West Region. Earlier this year Andrew undertook the...
We are so lucky to get the support of young Mariyah Nadeem. She is just turning 18 and now that she has left school, she has recognised how really lucky she has been to get such a good education in the UK. She has set herself the target of raising £4000 in order to...
The Building School for Africa charity raises money for projects in Cameroon which contribute to the UN development goal of ensuring that boys and girls everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Building Schools for Africa builds schools...
Andrew Hindle is relentless in his efforts to fundraise for our charity - and he is well on his way to achieve his target of £20,000 this year, which will provide classrooms and a latrine at the primary school, water for the village and equipment for the medical...
We are delighted that Positech UK, a one-man computer games company, has chosen to support our charity. The pupils at the little primary school in the village of Salle in the East Region of Cameroon, could hardly believe their good fortune as the school has...
The most splendid Midsummer Ball was held at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Saturday 13th June. It was part of Andrew and Linda Hindle's fundraising campaign to rebuild the primary school at at the village of Babadjou in the West region, and the event raised well...
We are making a concerted effort this year to get clean drinking water to many of the schools we have already helped with new classroom blocks. The children will no longer have to drink from streams and this will significantly reduce their risk of suffering from...
Congratulations to Andrew Hindle's group of Mud Runners in Derbyshire. They all survived the course - and Andrew managed to keep his bow tie on to the end! They also raised well over £500 towards their target of £20,000 - and they seem determined to smile all the...
The Far North region in Cameroon is exceptionally dry, except during the very short rainy season when flash floods have been known to wash children away whilst they were on their way to school. Getting clean drinking water is very difficult for many school children....
The pupils of Ennis House at Chichester High School for Girls, really pulled out all the stops during their recent Charity Week. With fantastic support from the Head of Year, Kate Whitmill, just 200 girls from 8 form groups raised an amazing £500 for us. How did...
At last the children from all parts of Kumbo Central can travel safely to school. This new permanent river bridge was opened at the end of March 2015. It replaces a dilapidated wood and bamboo structure that was collapsing under the strain of weighty lorries,...
All the trustees of Building Schools for Africa are immensely grateful to the students from Royal Holloway College who were involved in the Insanity Radio broadcast over the Easter holidays. Katherine, Matthew and Harley undertook a mammoth 24-hour charity broadcast...
We have had an unexpected and generous donation which will really give a boost to the students with disabilities at the SHUMAS Rehabilitation Centre. For some years now SHUMAS has been training young adult students with various physical and/or mental difficulties, in...
Good luck and best wishes to Andrew Hindle and his team of fellow mad-caps who are undertaking a sponsored Mud Run for us today (18th April). This is one of several fundraising events which Andrew is organizing to raise money for classrooms and a latrine at this...
The staff at Market Makers and Lead Forensics in Portsmouth are really going the extra mile to raise funds to build schools in Cameroon. This year they have a Mission to get to London by various means. Some people are going to cycle to the capital from Portsmouth,...
We have recently learnt that students from Royal Holloway College in Surrey are undertaking a whole string of 24-hour broadcasts over the Easter Holidays, on their university radio station - Insanity Radio (103.2 FM in the Surrey area, or on-line at insanityradio.com...
The 25th February 2015 was a long awaited day of celebration for the people in Kumbo Central when a brand new Health Centre was opened at Kovifem, funded by BSFA supporters. This forms part of a large integrated project which also included the construction of...
Friday 20th February 2015 was another great day for secondary education in NW Cameroon, with another two Technical Secondary Schools getting new classrooms blocks for their pupils. Government Technical College (GTC) Ntigi in Bambili got four new classrooms and GTC...
The next few months will be a busy time for SHUMAS as it is hoped that all the projects we have funded recently will be handed over to their respective communities in the first quarter of 2015. The communities themselves are busy too - digging new catchments for...
A number of the students at Amherst High School in Massachusetts, USA belong to a club which likes to make an impact on the world. And they have certainly managed that! This year they raised $20,000 which is helping the children at the Government Bilingual Primary...
Andrew Hindle is certainly concentrating on FUN with his fundraising for us in 2015! He is encouraging others to join him in a Wild Warrior Race in April and is also organising a Mid Summer Ball at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on June 13th. His target for...