We are extremely pleased that we have been able to repeat our very successful pilot project of last year, where we provided catch-up lessons at Neighbourhood Learning Corners in Babessi (NW Region) and Galim (West Region) for almost 300 children who had missed out on...
Many pregnant women in the NW region of Cameroon have great difficulty in accessing the vital vitamins which will help ensure they have a healthy baby. The political crisis and the conflict-related insecurity have created additional barriers to the distribution of...
Sometimes just very small donations can help many children get back to school. Can you help? When families are displaced because of war, they lose everything they own and they have to rebuild their lives from scratch when they reach a place of relative safety. ...
One of our trustees, Andrew Hindle (Main Road Films) has written and shot a promotional film for our charity which has now been published on our website. Please view it by clicking on the link in our Main Menu on the Home Page. The film is about a factory owner who...
We would like to thank everyone who donated to our Big Give Christmas Appeal in December. Thanks to your support - and that of our Pledger and our Champion, as well as the incredible generosity of Gompels Healthcare who offered to continue matching donations during...
This project has not been the easiest to undertake. The village of Moh in Nkambe, NW Region, is very remote at the best of times but the political crisis in that region, combined with torrential rains which made roads impassable, meant that transportation of building...
This brand new classroom block, complete with pupils benches and teachers' tables and chairs, is set to significantly improve the outcomes of the 164 pupils already enrolled at the school. Up until we undertook this project, CETIC Koupa Mengke had just 2 classrooms -...
The new big school of St Francis in Bafut, NW Region, is almost ready to be handed over to the community. There is just the plastering to finish and the painting left to do. Excitement is growing in the village. It is another huge project for our charity to have...
We are extremely pleased to be funding another Education in Emergency project focussing on getting Internally Displaced children, who have been out of school for many years, back into education. (Please see the short film in our post dated 7th Feb 2025) This year we...
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters at Gompels Healthcare, we have been able to fund the construction of an 8-classroom school in Bafut, NW Region. St Francis Xavier Nursery and Primary School is progressing fast and will, hopefully, be ready to hand over to...
The completed classroom block at EP Bagam was finally handed over to the community in September - just in time for the start of the new academic year. The three new classrooms provide much needed space at this overcrowded school so that another 90 children will be...
We have recently been able to provide funding for the drilling of a new borehole in Kumbo, NW Region, where the water system in the town has been broken for some time. The borehole is located at the only secondary school which is still functioning since the start of...
Three separate communities will be celebrating the start of the new academic year in September when they each receive a new block of classrooms, classroom furniture, a new latrine, a head teacher's office and the makings of a school farm to earn income and aid...
On 19th June 2025, the IDP children of Galim Neighbourhood Learning Corner graduated in a wonderful ceremony fitting to their achievements. 67 children who had been out of school for over 6 years because of the war in the NW region, and who could barely read or write...
The Hindle family have long been supporters of this charity - and they don't shy away from challenging themselves in order to raise funds for us. Andrew and Linda Hindle have always encouraged their children, Amelie and Fraser, to get involved too. Both children...
During our visit to Bamenda this year, we were pleased to call in to see the new Ante Natal Clinic and Infant Welfare Hall at the Nkwen Health Centre in action. This project was funded by our long-standing supporters, Gompels HealthCare and, although by the time we...
On 12th April 2025, Marianne Johnson and Stuart Whitman, two of our trustees, were privileged to represent Building Schools for Africa at the funeral of Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka, the founder of our partner NGO, SHUMAS. It was a momentous occasion, as was fitting for...
CETIC Koupe Menke is a bilingual technical secondary school in the West Region with 164 pupils and 13 teachers. It currently has just 2 classrooms, which are borrowed from a local primary school and are in a bad state of repair. It has very few benches that can be...
Following on from the success of our Economic Empowerment for Education (3E) Project over the past couple of years, we have managed to fund a further 75 women IDPs who had fled from the rural villages of the NW Region to Bamenda. These women had lost everything in...
It's been almost ten years since we have been able to undertake a school building project in the rural parts of NW Cameroon. All government schools were closed due to the political crisis, but CS St Martin in Moh, being a mission school, was allowed to function. ...
Any new development at a Health Centre is always very welcome - but for the people of Nkwen, the construction of a purpose built ante natal and infant welfare hall has been a real life saver for many hundreds of women and babies in this corner of Bamenda. The...
One of the most inspiring projects undertaken in 2024/25 has been our Education in Emergency project, where 260 children in seven communities of the NW and West regions have been helped back into education, having missed more than five years of school. Since the start...
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Stephen Ndzerem, the founder and Director General of SHUMAS, our partner NGO in Cameroon. He died on 18th January 2025 after a short illness. Trustees of Building Schools for Africa first met Stephen in 2006,...
We would like to send a huge vote of thanks to all our supporters for their generous donations to our Big Give Christmas.Challenge at the end of last year. We were on tenterhooks for the whole of the Christmas Challenge week but - thanks to you - we not only reached...
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....
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...