We hope you have all enjoyed a happy and peaceful Christmas. We hope you enjoy reading our latest newsletter, which is accessible if you click on the link below christmas_newsletter_2016_december All the trustees of Building Schools for Africa would like to wish you...
Imagine our delight recently when we were totting up our total funds raised to date , ready for our 10th anniversary review of Building Schools for Africa, and realised that we had just tipped over the £2 million mark!!! It is absolutely AMAZING and it's all thanks to...
Following our really mild autumn, the weather turned REALLY cold in mid-November just in time for our visit from Stephen Ndzerem and Billian Nyuykighan from SHUMAS. Fortunately, it didn't deter them and they spent three weeks travelling around the country, meeting...
We are going to have heavy bags when we travel out to Cameroon in January for the opening of GS Nketisoh! The new school building at this impoverished primary school has been funded by Sunesis and, in order to really give the children a head start, some of their...
Sometimes it takes a long time for our school building projects to reach completion and be ready to hand over to the village communities ... but we get there in the end, thanks to the determination of the SHUMAS expert workers! Three more schools in the villages of...
Amelie Hindle is obviously a fan of the Great British Bake Off .... she must have spent most of September baking in readiness for her Grand Afternoon Charity Tea Party which raised a staggering £1000!! The whole family pitched in to help, with Amelie's grandma making...
The Lycée de Mogon has finally opened its two new classrooms - thanks to our wonderful supporters, the Gompels family. This is one of four schools in the Extreme North region that are currently having new classrooms constructed. The school has also benefitted from a...
The construction of our school projects in the Extreme North region can be slow-going at times!! There is currently terrible flooding of the all the roads leading to our project at CES Dama in the Mayo Danay Division, so SHUMAS staff who were monitoring the building...
Our brilliant supporters at the Portsmouth companies of Market Makers and Lead Forensics are well underway with their fundraising for our charity for this year. The plan is to build blocks of classrooms at two schools in the NW Region - GS Kungoh (a primary school...
Two young students, Henry Gardner-Roberts and Ed Gripper, recently got in touch with us to say they were going to trek the length of the River Thames - from its source right down to the Thames Barrier - to raise some funds for our projects. And now they have done...
On one of the hottest days so far this year, our plucky supporters from Bamboo Crowd decided to get dressed up in Panda suits as part of their attempt to raise £1000 for us. They are such a great crowd and are already over half-way towards their target. Thanks...
Andrew (with the mike above) and Linda Hindle and their two young children, Amelie and Fraser, are - quite simply - Superstars!! They have started fundraising again for a third school building project through BSFA/SHUMAS - and this month the children took the lead...
We are thrilled to welcome another company on board! SUNESIS is supporting Building Schools for Africa and SHUMAS in our attempt to help as many Cameroonian children as possible to go to school in clean, hygienic, weatherproof classrooms. They have started a new...
We recently received a wonderful donation from a primary school pupil from Ripon.Hamish took part in a 'Fiver Challenge' - he spent his fiver on seeds and set up a gardening business, weeding and planting at the gardens of friends and neighbours and also sold flowers...
We are pleased to publish our latest newsletter, which you can download and print if you wish. It has been a really busy year to date, with lots of new classroom blocks at schools being opened and clean drinking water provided to communities that have never before...
The pupils in Year 6 at Brighstone Primary School are really enjoying working in their brand new classroom - and were concerned to see how children have to put up with terrible conditions at many schools in Cameroon. They decided to raise some money for BSFA and...
The pupils at Caistor Grammar School decided to donate the money they raised earlier this year to Building Schools for Africa. We were delighted, needless to say! It may not sound very glamorous but their fundraising has paid for the construction of the new VIP...
We had a lovely surprise in April - a cheque for over £100 from The Snaith School in East Yorkshire! The girls at this secondary school decided that they would like to help children in Africa get a better education, so they organised a bake sale which raised this...
A group of eight students and two teachers from Robert Gordon's College are making the stupendous effort of cycling from Land's End to John o'Groats to raise the money to build a classroom for children in Cameroon. What a BRILLIANT effort - and such a memorable event...
Thanks to the fabulous financial support we have received from this year, we have been able to help SHUMAS to construct classroom blocks at desperately needy schools, like the one in the picture above at EP Maye Ibbe in the Extreme North region of Cameroon. This...
We are very pleased to be able to announce that we have started the 2016 building programme with classroom blocks at two primary schools in the NW Region. GS Keonom is really looking forward to new classrooms to replace this very fragile construction, and St. Francis...
Bamboo Crowd employees set themselves the challenge of running from Henley on Thames to Regents Park - 100 kms - to raise money for our projects ..... and they did it in December! Brrrr !! They formed themselves into teams and ran a relay of 20 kms each team -...