CETIC Koupe Menke is a technical secondary school in the West Region. It currently has just 2 classrooms, both of which are in a bad state of repair. It has very few benches that can be used by the pupils, so the children must sit on the floor and write on their...
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...