Year: 2020

St Odile is the largest Health Centre in Edea, Littoral Region, but it doesn't have clean drinking water and it doesn't have a reliable electricity supply.  It sees around 2000  patients annually, including mothers with premature babies from across the whole area. ...

Five years ago, BSFA was able to help the village of Sabongari by funding the construction of a classroom block at their secondary school.  The villagers have remained very grateful and good friends of our partner SHUMAS ever since.  They heard that SHUMAS was helping...

We are so pleased to be able to announce that the little primary and nursery school, CS Charles Luanga,  in Up Station Bamenda will soon have a new school building, complete with furniture and blackboards, a head teacher's office and a new latrine - thanks to a...

We are delighted to have been able to fund the construction of a pop-up school in each of two IDP communities (Nkah and Benakuma) in the forest regions this year, and to provide learning materials for a third community school in the semi-urban community of Chinde. ...

The emergency humanitarian relief project for 1000 Internally Displaced People, which BSFA funded earlier this year, has been such a great success that we are now able to repeat it, on a smaller scale, thanks to additional funds donated by our wonderful supporters....

Many children in the developed countries of the world will be feeling excited and relieved to be getting back to school after six months of being stuck at home because of the Coronavirus.  Imagine how the anglophone children in Cameroon must be feeling after almost...

Back in 2015, thanks to our wonderful supporters at Market Makers, we funded some school projects in Mbiame, one of which was the little Nursery School at Ntoh Mbiame. The following year, unfortunately, almost all schools in the NW and SW regions started to close...

Many of the children in the IDP communities in Cameroon are suffering from either Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) or Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) during this period of political unrest.  It is very hard for families to get food.  Their livelihoods and farms are...

Here are two examples of how practical help can enable children to continue with their education. Nearly all schools in the NW Region have been closed for almost four years, but the teacher training college at Mbengwi has been struggling to keep open as often as...

Since 2016, Bui Division in the NW Region has been particularly hard hit by violence of the Anglophone crisis. This is a Division where, over the years, Building Schools for Africa and SHUMAS have been extremely effective in improving both access to education and the...

We recently received a wonderful donation of 21 reconditioned laptops from Willmott Dixon.  These are destined for children in secondary education and will make an enormous difference to their ability to study and pass exams.  In Cameroon around 90% of children write...

As if there weren't enough difficulties in Cameroon at the moment, COVID-19 has now arrived and it is spreading quickly.  Our partner in Cameroon, SHUMAS, has been quick to respond to this new crisis and is busy getting information about social distancing and how to...

During our trustees' visit to Cameroon in November 2019, we saw at first hand some of the appalling situations of the anglophone Internally Displaced People (IDPs), thousands of whom had fled their homes, farms and businesses in the NW and SW regions in order to...