This November we were fortunate to have a meeting with the newly appointed Prime Minister of Cameroon, His Excellency Joseph Ngute. His Special Adviser has known of SHUMAS' work with BSFA for many years and he was keen that the Prime Minister should learn more about...
Schools These pictures of old and new school buildings show just some of what we achieved in 2019, thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. New classroom blocks,...
We build new toilets at each of our school projects. They are not fancy by western standards: they are Ventilated Deep Pit Latrines which are divided into cubicles, providig essential privacy - and they are appropriate structures for these rural locations. Each...
Our latest newsletter can be downloaded here Newsletter _ Summer 2019 Update Our emphasis this year, across all our projects, has been to help as many Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Cameroon as possible. We hope you find it an enjoyable and informative read.
This is the kind of makeshift house that thousands of families now call home in the jungle and bush areas of the NW and SW regions of Cameroon. Their villages have been burned, their subsistence farms destroyed, family members killed. They live in fear of their...
The UN has recently announced that the number of anglophones who have become displaced since the start of the political crisis in 2016 has doubled since 2018. There are now a million IDPs from the NW and SW regions of Cameroon - very many of whom have fled to the...
We are so proud and very very happy to announce that our 100th school building project has been completed. The primary school in the village of Konya Mbetta, in the Centre region, is finished and the children are already using their new classrooms. There will be a...
We are SO CLOSE to our 100th school project now .. we can hardly believe it. Thanks to the Ken Hughes Foundation, we have been able to send out the funds to construct 3 classrooms, an office and a new latrine at EP Bake in the West Region, where many of the Internally...
Huge thanks are due to Kevin Dundas at Willmott Dixon for organising this year's football tournament, with teams taking part from their various suppliers. This is the second such tournament and it looks as though they will have raised around £600 for BSFA (almost...
... but they are so essential!! A new Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine at a school makes all the difference to the health, well-being and confidence of children - and it means that girls can continue going to school after they reach puberty, when otherwise they might...
It's very exciting. We are getting close to 100 new school buildings funded since Building Schools for Africa started working with SHUMAS Cameroon in 2007. This little primary school, called Ecole Publique Bamendou Chefferie is located in Penka Michel sub-division...
Can you help Andrew Hindle and his family as they make their final dash towards their fundraising target of £16,750? They are fundraising for 2 classrooms with all necessary furniture, an office and a new latrine to be built at the little bilingual primary school at...
We were delighted recently to have been able to send funds to our partner in Cameroon which will enable the construction of two more really worthwhile projects. Three classrooms with all necessary furniture, an office/store, a new latrine and a borehole for clean...
Following on from their successful fundraising football tournament last year, our supporters at Willmott Dixon are holding another - this time in Birmingham. If you are a football fan and live anywhere near Birmingham, do go along and support this event. It will be a...
Amelie and Fraser Hindle have often featured on our fundraising posts over the past few years. They are big supporters of BSFA. In fact, the whole Hindle family have been amazing at fundraising for us. They have already funded two school building projects through us...
Sometimes things get overlooked don't they? It's the end of April and we have only just realised that we didn't post a link to our most recent Newsletter.... the Christmas one! Oops. We hope you enjoy reading it. December 18 newsletter
The new block of classrooms at Ecole Publique St. Barthelemy have been finished in record time.... and just before the rain pours down by the look of the photo. All the building materials can now be cleared away to be used on our next project - then the 205 children...
It was really good to see an article printed by the Chartered Institute of Building in their magazine, giving our charity a very nice plug. The article, below, is referring to the Sunesis initiative called A School for a School, where the company funds the...
These little tots used to have to sit on the floor of their school room, or on a concrete block or a rock. There were no tables for them to work at and no facilities at all, other than the teachers. Thanks to our supporters at Sunesis, the children now have new...
We are delighted to announce that the little bilingual primary school, GBPS Sodiko, will shortly be benefitting from three new classrooms, an office and a new latrine. The school is currently being held in a borrowed house that has been divided up with plywood sheets...
All the trustees of Building Schools for Africa would like to thank the Dragon School in Oxfordshire for their splendid donation of over £235. This will buy 10 benches for primary school children - which will mean 30 of these children will no longer either have to...
The children at this little primary school, CS Batoke in Limbe, can hardly believe their eyes as they see their new school taking shape. Up until now they have been studying in a ramshackle wooden construction with gaping holes in the plank walls and a leaky roof:...