Our heartfelt thanks go to the students at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts who have been fundraising to support our projects since 2009. They have just sent us sufficient funds to pay for the borehole which will provide clean drinking water for the pupils at the primary school in Nketisoh.... read more →
Jan
29
Jan
25
This will be a real TEAM effort from Thursday June 28th to Sunday July 1st 2018. Although at least two of the runners at this event will run the whole 180 miles, it is being organised as a Relay Run so as to include as many enthusiastic supporters as possible. The organisers... read more →
Jan
22
Our amazing supporter, Andrew Hindle, is really going the extra mile this year to raise sufficient funds to construct his THIRD school building through our charity! A couple of Andrew's friends are planning on running the length of Offa's Dyke (that's 180 miles!) over 4 days at the end of June... read more →
Nov
11
It's great to have Kevin Dundas as one of our enthusiastic supporters. Kevin keeps his colleagues at Sunesis updated with all the work they are doing with Building Schools for Africa through his blog and a short video he made about our work. We can't wait for him to come out... read more →
Oct
09
We were so pleased this week to receive a wonderful donation of almost £250 from North Walsham High School. Our charity was chosen by the Head Girl and Head Boy to benefit from the money the school raised through their non-uniform day at the end of last term. Thanks so much... read more →
Oct
05
We are so pleased to have been able to send our partner NGO, SHUMAS, the funds for two more school projects this week. Building will start straight away on 3 classrooms, an office and a new latrine at the primary schools in two villages in the Centre Region, Bapes Mondial... read more →
Oct
05
Andrew Hindle is raising funds for a third school in Cameroon - and his whole family is on board supporting him. They are simply amazing - and we love it that they are such ardent supporters of ours. The fundraising has been going on for some time already and, in... read more →
Sep
12
Keep up to date with all that's been going on at Building Schools for Africa in the past few months. Our latest newsletter has some initial findings from our 10-year Impact Assessment - which are all very encouraging and, we hope, interesting to our supporters. Just click on the link... read more →
Jun
25
A couple of modest donations that have come in to the charity lately are really going to make all the difference to the life chances of some children in Cameroon. Many young children are prevented from going to primary school because their parents are too poor to afford to buy a uniform... read more →
Jun
12
Two of the very remote primary schools that we supported with 6 classrooms apiece back in 2010, the Islamic school IPS Bamdzeng and the Baptist school CBC Bamdzeng, now have the benefit of electricity - thanks to a renewable energy project undertaken by SHUMAS with the help of Energy Without... read more →