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...