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It's hard for most of us living in the West to imagine what it must be like for people who suddenly become IDPs in their own country. This has happened to almost a million Cameroonians in the NW and SW regions simply because they are English speaking, living in regions... read more →

The St John Nursery and Primary school in Nkwen, NW Region was started by missionaries in 1988.  It was always a very popular and busy school until the escalation of the crisis caused all schools in the region to close in 2016.  However, it ventured to re-open in September 2019... read more →

December 4th 2020 saw the opening of the third purpose-built High School science lab that our charity has been able to fund. This one is at the Government Bilingual High School Bekoko in Littoral Region.  The school has just over 1000 students at present, including more than 350 anglophone IDPs... read more →

On the night of 11th October 2018, the little village of N'taba in NW Region was attacked by unidentified armed men.  The houses were razed to the ground, the villagers' cattle were stolen and the 171 villagers fled, taking nothing with them, to Kourap in the West Region.  On a... read more →

St Odile is the largest Health Centre in Edea, Littoral Region, but it doesn't have clean drinking water and it doesn't have a reliable electricity supply.  It sees around 2000  patients annually, including mothers with premature babies from across the whole area.  The Centre has six incubators but they often... read more →

Five years ago, BSFA was able to help the village of Sabongari by funding the construction of a classroom block at their secondary school.  The villagers have remained very grateful and good friends of our partner SHUMAS ever since.  They heard that SHUMAS was helping their former neighbours, now destitute... read more →

We are so pleased to be able to announce that the little primary and nursery school, CS Charles Luanga,  in Up Station Bamenda will soon have a new school building, complete with furniture and blackboards, a head teacher's office and a new latrine - thanks to a generous personal donation... read more →

We are delighted to have been able to fund the construction of a pop-up school in each of two IDP communities (Nkah and Benakuma) in the forest regions this year, and to provide learning materials for a third community school in the semi-urban community of Chinde.  This project has enabled... read more →

The emergency humanitarian relief project for 1000 Internally Displaced People, which BSFA funded earlier this year, has been such a great success that we are now able to repeat it, on a smaller scale, thanks to additional funds donated by our wonderful supporters. The beneficiaries will be 30 households (171... read more →

Many children in the developed countries of the world will be feeling excited and relieved to be getting back to school after six months of being stuck at home because of the Coronavirus.  Imagine how the anglophone children in Cameroon must be feeling after almost four years of being excluded... read more →