The dry season has arrived at last in Cameroon, and work started immediately on the new classroom block at the Government Bilingual High School in the village of Ntui in the Centre region. The foundations were dug in record time and the groundwork has now been...
Since the political crisis started back in 2016, two primary schools and a nursery school in the village of Bayelle, have joined forces to make one large primary and nursery school with approximately 2,000 pupils and 55 teachers. It has managed to keep functioning...
Our fabulous supporters, the Hindle Family, have been pulling out all the stops again to raise money for a project that is close to their hearts. In 2019, Andrew and Linda and their two children - Amelie and Fraser - travelled to Cameroon to witness the handover of a...
It was so exciting to learn this week that the little primary school at Fungeh is still doing well. When we first visited Fungeh, back in 2008, the school was being held in a crumbling ruin with a meagre thatch roof. The children had a constant battle with rain and...
This brand new school building was handed over to the community at Mindassi in the Central Region in April 2021. It is a marked improvement on the old school building (see pictures below) which had three tiny classrooms for 6 year groups, very few benches and no...
It's the little things in life that mean the most - especially if you haven't been able to go to school for years and you are desperate to catch up! St John's school in Bamenda needed lots of new benches so that the children didn't have to be crowded together in the...
The children in Jakiri have not been able to attend school for more than four years. Almost all schools in the NW Region have been closed because of the socio-politial crisis that has been escalating since 2016, but the children were desperate to get back to...
Reports of high salaries paid to charity staff have recently appeared in the UK press. The highest paid UK charity CEO reportedly earns £4.5 million a year. Salaries over £100k are very common in the UK charity sector. In the light of this the Charity Commission is...
It's just a few more days before children in the UK return to school after two months of having to work from home. Our schools will be prepared with COVID testing facilities and social distancing in place. Imagine what it must be like for these children who have...
At the beginning of 2020, we received a wonderful donation of 21 reconditioned laptops from our supporters at Willmott Dixon. These were destined to be shipped out to Cameroon and distributed to some of our secondary schools there - but unfortunately the pandemic...
Our regular supporters will have received our latest newsletter in their inboxes last week. We hope you all enjoyed reading about all we have achieved over the past six months. If any of you missed it, try checking your Spam files (just in case!) .... or you can have...
Our project to provide emergency humanitarian relief to 1000 of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the hard-to-reach areas wasn't exactly easy to deliver! But our partner, SHUMAS, was as resourceful as ever. Many items, including 400 mattresses and mosquito...
It's hard for most of us living in the West to imagine what it must be like for people who suddenly become IDPs in their own country. This has happened to almost a million Cameroonians in the NW and SW regions simply because they are English speaking, living in...
The St John Nursery and Primary school in Nkwen, NW Region was started by missionaries in 1988. It was always a very popular and busy school until the escalation of the crisis caused all schools in the region to close in 2016. However, it ventured to re-open in...
December 4th 2020 saw the opening of the third purpose-built High School science lab that our charity has been able to fund. This one is at the Government Bilingual High School Bekoko in Littoral Region. The school has just over 1000 students at present, including...
On the night of 11th October 2018, the little village of N'taba in NW Region was attacked by unidentified armed men. The houses were razed to the ground, the villagers' cattle were stolen and the 171 villagers fled, taking nothing with them, to Kourap in the West...