Sep
09
Our fabulous supporters, the Hindle Family, have been pulling out all the stops again to raise money for a project that is close to their hearts. In 2019, Andrew and Linda and their two children - Amelie and Fraser - travelled to Cameroon to witness the handover of a school...
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Aug
29
It was so exciting to learn this week that the little primary school at Fungeh is still doing well. When we first visited Fungeh, back in 2008, the school was being held in a crumbling ruin with a meagre thatch roof. The children had a constant battle with rain and...
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Jul
27
This brand new school building was handed over to the community at Mindassi in the Central Region in April 2021. It is a marked improvement on the old school building (see pictures below) which had three tiny classrooms for 6 year groups, very few benches and no latrine. There were...
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Jun
29
It's the little things in life that mean the most - especially if you haven't been able to go to school for years and you are desperate to catch up! St John's school in Bamenda needed lots of new benches so that the children didn't have to be crowded together...
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Jun
28
The children in Jakiri have not been able to attend school for more than four years. Almost all schools in the NW Region have been closed because of the socio-politial crisis that has been escalating since 2016, but the children were desperate to get back to learning. So, following lengthy...
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Jun
07
Reports of high salaries paid to charity staff have recently appeared in the UK press. The highest paid UK charity CEO reportedly earns £4.5 million a year. Salaries over £100k are very common in the UK charity sector. In the light of this the Charity Commission is considering making reporting...
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Mar
02
It's just a few more days before children in the UK return to school after two months of having to work from home. Our schools will be prepared with COVID testing facilities and social distancing in place. Imagine what it must be like for these children who have recently returned...
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Jan
28
At the beginning of 2020, we received a wonderful donation of 21 reconditioned laptops from our supporters at Willmott Dixon. These were destined to be shipped out to Cameroon and distributed to some of our secondary schools there - but unfortunately the pandemic really put a spanner in the works...
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Jan
24
Our regular supporters will have received our latest newsletter in their inboxes last week. We hope you all enjoyed reading about all we have achieved over the past six months. If any of you missed it, try checking your Spam files (just in case!) .... or you can have a...
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Jan
12
Our project to provide emergency humanitarian relief to 1000 of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the hard-to-reach areas wasn't exactly easy to deliver! But our partner, SHUMAS, was as resourceful as ever. Many items, including 400 mattresses and mosquito nets, needed to get to communities deep in the jungle...
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