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Nov 28

Matched Funding – One Donation – Twice the Impact!!

This year, Building Schools for Africa has linked up with the Big Give Christmas Challenge where modest individual donations to our charity, made between Tuesday November 28th and Tuesday December 5th through the link below, will be matched - up to a total of £6,250. Please consider this as an... read more →

Nov 23

Healing the Earth

Our partner, SHUMAS, has a new initiative designed to raise awareness in young people about environment issues, and also to improve their carbon footprint. It is called the SHUMAS Healing the Earth Strategy and all projects will now incorporate this message. The first school to benefit was All Saints Catholic... read more →

Nov 21

CETIC Kongola gets a visit from the British High Commissioner

We were so delighted to learn that the British High Commissioner, Mr. Barry Lowen, was able to visit the Technical High School at Kongola whilst he was in the Far North region recently. CETIC Kongola is our latest school building project, which is due to be handed over to the... read more →

Nov 16

Clean drinking water for the primary school at Kodek

There was great excitement today amongst the 800 children and the teachers at the primary school in Kodek, which is located approximately 7 Kms from Maroua, the capital of the Far North region of Cameroon. A huge drilling rig arrived at the school and started to drill a borehole which... read more →

Nov 15

New role for the SHUMAS Rehab Unit

The SHUMAS Rehab Unit at Mile 6 Nkwen, has undergone an major transformation in the past months. For many years it provided training in skills from tailoring to hairdressing, shoe-making to basket weaving for disabled adults who were otherwise unable to earn a living and live independently. It was hugely... read more →

Nov 05

A new Science Lab for Bayelle

The school hall at All Saints Catholic College in Bayelle, Bamenda, was packed with pupils who were buzzing with excitement at the prospect of being able to study in their brand new science lab. The fully equipped lab was handed over to the College in a wonderful ceremony on October... read more →

Sep 18

Working with International Communities Organisation

“ICO's goal is to be the leading international organisation working for peace and reconciliation in divided conflict settings with a special focus on enabling minority communities in these divided settings to participate in the respective peace process.” (James Holmes, Secretary General ICO) We were surprised and delighted to receive an... read more →

Aug 23

Dear donors, a letter from a couple of recent visitors to Cameroon

Dear amazing Donors BSFA and SHUMAS have just given us the greatest honour of allowing us to come visit Cameroon and see the amazing work that they do. During our trip we travelled all over the country, seeing the potential that the diverse landscape and motivated labour force have to... read more →

Aug 22

Focus on the Far North

The Far North region is the second most populated region of Cameroon and one of the poorest. The region currently faces immense challenges including weak public services and chronic insecurity caused by armed conflicts by the Boko Haram. The impacts of climate change leading to environmental degradation is exacerbating the... read more →

Aug 08

A trip that exceeded all expectations

Two sixth-formers recently spent three weeks of their summer holiday working with our partner, SHUMAS, on behalf of Building Schools for Africa. Oby Gompels and Monty Woodward weren't entirely sure what they were letting themselves in for - but they declare they had a brilliant time which had exceeded all... read more →