We are excited to be part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge again for 2024. The online match funding campaign is running from midday on Tuesday 3 December 2024 to midday on Tuesday 10 December 2024. Your donations made during this time will be doubled, so it's the...
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters at Gompels Healthcare, we have been able to fund a large-scale water project in one quarter of Bamenda (Ntamafe 11) which will improve the health of around 150 households (800 people) and the 400 pupils of the local school....
This video clip has just come through from our partner NGO in Cameroon. The primary school is in the Far North region. It collapsed on top of the children studying inside. Details are still coming through but we are hoping that...
We will shortly be undertaking a new project, based in the North West and West regions, addressing the needs of many school aged children who are deprived of education because of war and are at risk of exploitation. Around 2,500 schools remain closed after seven...
Earlier this year the village of Peere in Mayo Linwa, Adamawa Region, was struck by high winds which tore the roof off the only classroom at their primary school. The walls of the classroom, made from mud blocks, soon collapsed in the rains. The parents of the 361...
In recent months we have been able to build again on the enormous success of our Economic Empowerment for Education Project. A further 75 destitute internally displaced women, now living in Yaounde and Bamenda, have been selected to benefit from SHUMAS' small...
Our biggest ever school project was finally completed and handed over to the community of Ntahkeka in Bamenda II on 30th May 2024. It was a day of great excitement and celebration. This had been an audacious project from the start and it faced many difficulties...
In April of this year, a small team from Main Road Films made their way out to Bamenda to capture some footage of the celebrations at the new school at St. Paul's Ntahkeka. They met with staff, pupils and people from the local community: speeches were made, children...
We are thrilled to be able to announce that a couple of our supporters have offered to fund another school building project this year. It will take place at a small village called Peere, in the Adamawa Region. Until recently the school (Ecole Publique parent de...
It was very exciting and encouraging to see how the community has come out to help on this project - our biggest school building project to date. This is Participatory Development at its very best! The ground floor construction (three classrooms) is now complete and...
Building Schools For Africa 2008 - 2023 Building Schools for Africa started as an idea in 2007 when Marianne (founding trustee of BSFA) came home from Cameroon with tales of a small rural community called Ntseimbang which was desperately in need of a school. She had...
Once again, with support from our funders, we have been able to help impoverished women who are the lone heads of households, establish livelihoods for themselves and thus be able to feed their families and send their children to school. This year we have been able...
Almost one year to the day that the new classrooms and office were handed over to the community in the village of Sogum in Cameroon's Far North Region, a team from the SHUMAS office in Maroua visited to assess the impact of the project. We are pleased to say that the...
There is a small plot of land behind St Paul's Catholic church in Ntahteka, Bamenda, which will soon be home to our most ambitious school project yet. When our trustees visited this school in January 2023, over 300 children from the local area were squeezed into small...