There is a little bilingual nursery school at Akok-Ndoe, on the outskirts of the capital of Cameroon, Yaounde. The school is ironically called the Marvellous nursery school, however its facilities are far from marvellous. The school has no building, so it has...
There is cholera in Cameroon at the moment - and we are doing all we can to help reduce the spread of this dreadful disease. Clean drinking water and good sanitation are key to preventing cholera from spreading. Last year we funded a new block of classrooms at Ecole...
We are so pleased to be able to announce that this little primary school in the south of Cameroon will soon have three new purpose-built classrooms (to replace those in the picture), an office and a new latrine with hand-washing facilities. This will make such a...
We are delighted to announce that the wonderful group of supporters from Market Makers and Really B2B have survived their charity walk. It took a total of 20 hours to get around the Isle of Wight last weekend, in the rain, wind and cold - but their spirits never...
It has hardly rained at all for months and months here on the Isle of Wight, where Building Schools for Africa is based .... until today, that is. Suddenly it is distinctly autumnal - cold, windy and raining - and yet this plucky bunch from Market Makers and Really...
For the past three months, a pilot scheme has been running in the remote village of Buh in the NW Region, bringing solar powered light to households in the village, and a little extra money to the entrepreneurs who are trying this business project, introduced by...
The Hindle family are on a mission to raise sufficient funds to build a THIRD school through BSFA. This summer they organised a four-day relay marathon, with participants running the length of Offa's Dyke - a magnificent effort in anyone's book - and they followed...
Thanks go to our wonderful supporters at Clymac who funded the construction of a new classroom block at the technical secondary school Banock, which was opened this week. This was a wonderful example of participatory development in action. The whole community got...
THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! To Kevin Dundas from Sunesis (first on the left in the back row) and all these fellas who work for Sunesis suppliers. They obviously had a great time taking part in a fabulous fundraising football tournament, organised by Kevin, to raise...
Another small school will soon be celebrating the news that their pupils will be able to learn in brand new classrooms by the end of this year. Currently, the classrooms at St. Therese Nursery and Primary school in Muyuka in SW Region are made from roughly sawn...
Our fantastic supporters at Sunesis are raising funds for our charity by organising a friendly football tournament for their supply chain on 22nd May. The venue is yet to be confirmed .... will it be Wembley?? Football 22nd May
On the 15th February 2018 the British High Commissioner for Cameroon, Rowan Laxton, and the British Minister of State for Africa, Harriet Baldwin, visited our newly opened science lab at GBHS Sodiko, in the company of Billian Nyuykighan, the Programme Co-ordinator for...
Thanks to generous funding from our regular supporters at Clymac, three new classrooms and a latrine are under construction at CETIC Banock - a technical secondary school in the West Region. The number of pupils at this school is growing rapidly and the community has...
GBHS Sodiko not only received the new science block building but it came fully equipped and ready for the students to get to work with their practical experiments. Clean drinking water was also supplied at this school, and we are expecting that, in the months to...
We are delighted to be able to report that the new science lab at GBHS Sodiko was opened today (8th February 2018). This bilingual high school is in the Douala sub-division of Littoral Region and, up until today, all the students studying science in the fifth and...
The school community in the poor little village of Bapes Mondial (Centre Region) has been struggling for months and months to get their local contributions together so that we can help them build 3 new classrooms, an office and a latrine, to replace their current...
"Life in Kalong will never be the same again!" This was the message we received from the Director of SHUMAS on the day that he handed over the keys to a block of 3 new classrooms, an office and a new latrine at Kalong primary school. Ever since the school was...
Our heartfelt thanks go to the students at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts who have been fundraising to support our projects since 2009. They have just sent us sufficient funds to pay for the borehole which will provide clean drinking water for the...
This will be a real TEAM effort from Thursday June 28th to Sunday July 1st 2018. Although at least two of the runners at this event will run the whole 180 miles, it is being organised as a Relay Run so as to include as many enthusiastic supporters as possible. The...
Our amazing supporter, Andrew Hindle, is really going the extra mile this year to raise sufficient funds to construct his THIRD school building through our charity! A couple of Andrew's friends are planning on running the length of Offa's Dyke (that's 180 miles!)...