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Ecole Publique Bape Mondial is one of the primary schools that has recently applied for help from the SHUMAS/Building Schools for Africa partnership. Around 200 children have been studying in these makeshift classrooms since the school was created in 2012. Imagine the difficulty the children have trying to keep their... read more →

We have just received details of the impact of a water project that was funded by our supporters Market Makers.  The picture above shows us tasting the water at the opening of this project in April 2016.   The Mubang/Menke water project is based in the suburbs of Bamenda in... read more →

Before we were able to find the funding for this project, the people from the Upper Munjong area in NW region were having to drink water from local streams which were also being used for washing clothes and motorbikes and had household waste dumped in them.  Grazing animals were also... read more →

This is the newly refurbished and equipped health centre at Wainamah in the NW region, which was handed over to the community on April 26th 2017.  The pictures below show what the facilities were like before.   The health centre treats over 7,000 patients each year and now boasts a... read more →

We have just learned that our brilliant supporters at Market Makers in Portsmouth are encouraging their staff to take part in the Three Peaks Challenge in the Yorkshire Dales this June.  They will be raising funds to help build quality classrooms  at the High School in Jiyane and the Technical... read more →

This building, under construction now in the village of Ichim-Oku, NW Region, will be the new secondary school, GSS Ichim.  It is our first collaborative project with Rotary International Canada and came about because we met members of this group over breakfast in Bamenda more than a year ago!  Building Schools... read more →

This is the new primary school at GS Nketisoh - just waiting for its final coat of paint and its official handover to the community.   It will transform this village community who were struggling to provide any kind of building for the school when we first visited it in... read more →

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 →