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 →
Jan
20
Dec
04
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 →
Nov
23
Last year we helped SHUMAS to launch a new initiative aimed at teenage boys and girls from the NW region, who had been forced to drop out of school early because of the war. Most of these children had lost family members, some had signed up as child soldiers, many... read more →
Nov
23
Please read all about what we have achieved in partnership with Shumas Cameroon over the past six months. 2022 Summer newsletter
Aug
03
Whilst SHUMAS staff were busy implementing the Humanitarian Aid project at the IDP communities in Fungom, they were approached by many of the community leaders who begged them to try to find some way of getting their children back to school. They were desperate. All schools had been closed down... read more →
Aug
02
This year we funded SHUMAS to undertake its biggest humanitarian aid project so far. 506 households – a total of 3050 Internally Displaced People - had been identified as being in dire need of humanitarian assistance in the Fungom district of Menchum Division in the NW Region. These people had... read more →
Jul
28
Spotted by our intrepid trustee from the Midlands, Andrew Hindle. The Cameroon flag and team taking part in the rehearsal for the Opening Ceremony for the Commonwealth Games. Welcome to England - and Good Luck!
Jul
07
It has always been a problem for the poorest people in Cameroon to be able to earn sufficient money to send their children to school - and during the past seven years of war this situation has got worse and worse. The majority of the 3000+ anglophones who have been... read more →
Jul
03
Andrew Hindle and his family have been supporting this charity for the past ten years, during which time, they have raised funds for the construction of three primary schools, two school water supplies and the upgrading of a rural health centre. Their fundraising has been phenomenal with the entire family... read more →
Jun
29
It's not an easy task for our partners at SHUMAS, to find a suitable school project for our funders and then bring it all to completion without any hitches. There can be any number of incidents that can cause a project to have to be abandoned - and the collection... read more →