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The community of Upper Munjong in the NW region have desperate for a reliable source of clean drinking water for many years.  Families have tended to dig wells but they were never deep enough for the water to be clean.  With aid from some foreign investors, some new catchments for... read more →

The Gered Gereedschap Foundation in the Netherlands generously donated to SHUMAS a container full of the most enormous number of reconditioned tools and equipment, for use in many  of technical schools that SHUMAS has constructed, including five that were funded through Building Schools for Africa.  The staff and students at these... read more →

It's just great when one of our satisfied funders inspires someone else to come on board with us.  This recently happened, and a generous new funder, who had been inspired by Positech's funding of the little school at Salle in the East Region, contacted us and said "I thought to myself, I could... read more →

Huge thanks are due to Felicity Dorey who, with her dad, took part in a Triathlon last September and raised the fantastic sum of £470 for us.  What a brilliant effort.  Felicity says that she had been really inspired by the projects that we have managed to fund and that... read more →

For the first time in our ten years of working in partnership with SHUMAS, we have had to postpone a planned trip to open school buildings in Cameroon.  We are disappointed but not downhearted - and we hope to be re-scheduling the trip for later in the Spring.  There has... read more →

These two sets of brand new football kit are the latest items destined to be squeezed into our luggage for our trip to SHUMAS next week.  BSFA's new supporter, Sunesis, has been receiving lots of offers of support from its suppliers and it's going to make the handing over of the first... read more →

Imagine our delight recently when we were totting up our total funds raised to date , ready for our 10th anniversary review of Building Schools for Africa, and realised that we had just tipped over the £2 million mark!!! It is absolutely AMAZING and it's all thanks to our wonderful supporters... read more →

Following our really mild autumn, the weather turned REALLY cold in mid-November just in time for our visit from Stephen Ndzerem and Billian Nyuykighan from SHUMAS.  Fortunately, it didn't deter them and they spent three weeks travelling around the country, meeting with many of our supporters and giving them all the... read more →

We are going to have heavy bags when we travel out to Cameroon in January for the opening of GS Nketisoh!  The new school building at this impoverished primary school has been funded by Sunesis and, in order to really give the children a head start, some of their suppliers... read more →