Blog

May 03

Another Science Lab for school children in Bamenda

We are excited to announce that work will soon start on a new Science Lab at All Saints Catholic College Bayelle in Bamenda, NW Region. All Saints College was created in 2019 in response to many requests from parents of children who had attended other secondary schools in the region... read more →

Apr 18

Empowering Women One Step at a Time

By Oliver Smith In the early 1960s, after gaining independence from France and the UK, Cameroon was considered a place of hope in the central part of Africa, building essential infrastructure such as roads and railways as well as... read more →

Apr 13

Spotlight on SHUMAS

“There’s nothing greater than the feeling of helping another human. That's what motivates us.” Stephen Ndzerem, Founder and Director General, SHUMAS At Building Schools for Africa we have always been aware of the effectiveness of our exclusive partnership with Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS), a development and humanitarian NGO in Cameroon.... read more →

Mar 15

A New Primary School in the Far North Region

12th December 2022 was a joyful day in the village of Sogum. After years of having to use straw huts as classrooms, the primary school in the village took ownership of three new properly constructed classrooms and a school office, built by SHUMAS contractors and funded by BSFA supporters, Rick... read more →

Mar 14

More of the beneficiaries of the 3E project

These are the beneficiaries of the Economic Empower for Education project that BSFA trustees met in Yaounde on 28th January 2023. Meriline is 35 years old. She came to Yaounde three years ago with her children aged 13, 10 and 6. She used to live in Kumbo and said she... read more →

Mar 11

Responding quickly to changing needs

When there is war in a country, it is essential for humanitarian agencies to be able to respond quickly to the changing needs of suffering communities and not have their response slowed by needless bureaucracy. Fortunately, our partner in Cameroon, SHUMAS, is expert in this nimble approach, utilising all resources... read more →

Feb 24

Our ‘Live’ newsletters from Cameroon – January 2023

Normally our trustees visit Cameroon every year to monitor progress of our various projects, but this has not been possible in recent years because of the pandemic ... so the trip we made this January was really action-packed with SO MANY projects to visit and people to meet. We decided... read more →

Feb 24

Our first visit to Bamenda since 2017

It was with mixed feelings that we ventured down into the middle of the town of Bamenda during our trip to Cameroon this year. Bamenda has always been our 'home away from home' since we starting our partnership with SHUMAS, but we haven't been able to go there since 2017... read more →

Jan 20

Economic Empowerment for Education – in action!

During our visit to Cameroon we met just some of the 100 IDP women that we have helped our partner, SHUMAS, to train in small business management. The women were then each given start up materials, to the value of 50,000 CFAs (£65) to get their businesses started. In this... read more →

Dec 04

How the 3E Project helped Kindness Shaye

Kindness Shaye is a 28 year old single mother of three children, aged 12, 10 and 7. She was physically abused by the father of the children who finally abandoned them and, because of the intense violence of the political crisis in her home village of Ndu, she fled with... read more →