It's great to have Kevin Dundas as one of our enthusiastic supporters. Kevin keeps his colleagues at Sunesis updated with all the work they are doing with Building Schools for Africa through his blog and a short video he made about our work. We can't wait for him to...
We were so pleased this week to receive a wonderful donation of almost £250 from North Walsham High School. Our charity was chosen by the Head Girl and Head Boy to benefit from the money the school raised through their non-uniform day at the end of last term. Thanks...
We are so pleased to have been able to send our partner NGO, SHUMAS, the funds for two more school projects this week. Building will start straight away on 3 classrooms, an office and a new latrine at the primary schools in two villages in the Centre Region, Bapes...
Andrew Hindle is raising funds for a third school in Cameroon - and his whole family is on board supporting him. They are simply amazing - and we love it that they are such ardent supporters of ours. The fundraising has been going on for some time already and, in...
Keep up to date with all that's been going on at Building Schools for Africa in the past few months. Our latest newsletter has some initial findings from our 10-year Impact Assessment - which are all very encouraging and, we hope, interesting to our supporters....
A couple of modest donations that have come in to the charity lately are really going to make all the difference to the life chances of some children in Cameroon. Many young children are prevented from going to primary school because their parents are too poor to...
Two of the very remote primary schools that we supported with 6 classrooms apiece back in 2010, the Islamic school IPS Bamdzeng and the Baptist school CBC Bamdzeng, now have the benefit of electricity - thanks to a renewable energy project undertaken by SHUMAS with...
Despite all the setbacks to progress caused by the civil unrest in Cameroon in recent months, the SHUMAS team has been able to get these classrooms at GSS Ichim built and almost ready for handover to the community. BSFA trustees are looking forward to making a visit...
Another primary school is about to be constructed in the South Region, thanks to our wonderful supporters at Clymac. Ecole Publique d'Edjom will soon have three new classrooms complete with blackboards, benches, tables and chairs, an office and a new VIP latrine -...
Ecole Publique Bape Mondial is one of the primary schools that has recently applied for help from the SHUMAS/Building Schools for Africa partnership. Around 200 children have been studying in these makeshift classrooms since the school was created in 2012. Imagine the...
We have just received details of the impact of a water project that was funded by our supporters Market Makers. The picture above shows us tasting the water at the opening of this project in April 2016. The Mubang/Menke water project is based in the suburbs of...
Before we were able to find the funding for this project, the people from the Upper Munjong area in NW region were having to drink water from local streams which were also being used for washing clothes and motorbikes and had household waste dumped in them. Grazing...
This is the newly refurbished and equipped health centre at Wainamah in the NW region, which was handed over to the community on April 26th 2017. The pictures below show what the facilities were like before. The health centre treats over 7,000 patients each year...
We have just learned that our brilliant supporters at Market Makers in Portsmouth are encouraging their staff to take part in the Three Peaks Challenge in the Yorkshire Dales this June. They will be raising funds to help build quality classrooms at the High School...
This building, under construction now in the village of Ichim-Oku, NW Region, will be the new secondary school, GSS Ichim. It is our first collaborative project with Rotary International Canada and came about because we met members of this group over breakfast in...
This is the new primary school at GS Nketisoh - just waiting for its final coat of paint and its official handover to the community. It will transform this village community who were struggling to provide any kind of building for the school when we first visited it...
The community of Upper Munjong in the NW region have desperate for a reliable source of clean drinking water for many years. Families have tended to dig wells but they were never deep enough for the water to be clean. With aid from some foreign investors, some new...
The Gered Gereedschap Foundation in the Netherlands generously donated to SHUMAS a container full of the most enormous number of reconditioned tools and equipment, for use in many of technical schools that SHUMAS has constructed, including five that were funded...
It's just great when one of our satisfied funders inspires someone else to come on board with us. This recently happened, and a generous new funder, who had been inspired by Positech's funding of the little school at Salle in the East Region, contacted us and said "I...
Huge thanks are due to Felicity Dorey who, with her dad, took part in a Triathlon last September and raised the fantastic sum of £470 for us. What a brilliant effort. Felicity says that she had been really inspired by the projects that we have managed to fund and...
For the first time in our ten years of working in partnership with SHUMAS, we have had to postpone a planned trip to open school buildings in Cameroon. We are disappointed but not downhearted - and we hope to be re-scheduling the trip for later in the Spring. There...
These two sets of brand new football kit are the latest items destined to be squeezed into our luggage for our trip to SHUMAS next week. BSFA's new supporter, Sunesis, has been receiving lots of offers of support from its suppliers and it's going to make the handing...