Kindness Shaye is a 28 year old single mother of three children, aged 12, 10 and 7. She was physically abused by the father of the children who finally abandoned them and, because of the intense violence of the political crisis in her home village of Ndu, she fled...
Last year we helped SHUMAS to launch a new initiative aimed at teenage boys and girls from the NW region, who had been forced to drop out of school early because of the war. Most of these children had lost family members, some had signed up as child soldiers, many of...
Please read all about what we have achieved in partnership with Shumas Cameroon over the past six months. 2022 Summer newsletter
Whilst SHUMAS staff were busy implementing the Humanitarian Aid project at the IDP communities in Fungom, they were approached by many of the community leaders who begged them to try to find some way of getting their children back to school. They were desperate. All...
This year we funded SHUMAS to undertake its biggest humanitarian aid project so far. 506 households – a total of 3050 Internally Displaced People - had been identified as being in dire need of humanitarian assistance in the Fungom district of Menchum Division in the...
Spotted by our intrepid trustee from the Midlands, Andrew Hindle. The Cameroon flag and team taking part in the rehearsal for the Opening Ceremony for the Commonwealth Games. Welcome to England - and Good Luck!
It has always been a problem for the poorest people in Cameroon to be able to earn sufficient money to send their children to school - and during the past seven years of war this situation has got worse and worse. The majority of the 3000+ anglophones who have been...
Andrew Hindle and his family have been supporting this charity for the past ten years, during which time, they have raised funds for the construction of three primary schools, two school water supplies and the upgrading of a rural health centre. Their fundraising has...
It's not an easy task for our partners at SHUMAS, to find a suitable school project for our funders and then bring it all to completion without any hitches. There can be any number of incidents that can cause a project to have to be abandoned - and the collection of...
Some months ago we reported that the construction of a new classroom block at GBHS Ntui had been started. Close to 900 pupils were already attending this secondary school, including 100 Internally Displaced children, and with only 12 classrooms in the entire school,...
In 2015 we funded the construction of a secondary school building at Sabongari in the NW region and also helped the local heath centre with some new equipment. The community there was thrilled with both projects and the village really started to thrive. However, in...
Our biggest Humanitarian Relief project yet - read about it in our newsletter Please click on the link below to read our newsletter - giving details of what we have achieved since the summer 2022 January newsletter
We recently sent a report to Andrew Hindle, one of our wonderful regular supporters, showing the progress that had been made on the project he and his family had funded. This was his response to us: "Excellent. Yes thank you, I received the report and (it was) really...
It is salutary to note that the recent start of the African Cup of Nations football competition, hosted by Cameroon, has prompted the British media to suddenly show an interest in the five-year long war in that country. The war, between the French-speaking...
We are hoping that our next school project will be underway soon in the village of Njimbong in the Littoral region. This village is very remote in the forest area, 28 Kms from the nearest town of Yabassi. The school was created in 2014. It is the only school in the...
This is our biggest humanitarian aid project yet, in terms of numbers of people who will be helped - and the impact will be huge. SHUMAS has identified 506 IDP households - a total of 3050 people - who are very isolated and vulnerable, living in abject poverty and...
Water is essential for life and in rural Cameroon, it is usually the women and girls who have to collect water each day for the family needs. To have potable water near to their homes saves hours of walking and means more girl children can go to school, so we have...
It has been five years now since all schools in the NW/SW regions of Cameroon were closed because of war. More than 78 of these have been destroyed in the fighting and, although a few are now back functioning again, there are no formal schools open at all in the Bui...