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Sometimes it takes a long time for our school building projects to reach completion and be ready to hand over to the village communities ... but we get there in the end, thanks to the determination of the SHUMAS expert workers!   Three more schools in the villages of Dama,... read more →

Amelie Hindle is obviously a fan of the Great British Bake Off .... she must have spent most of September baking in readiness for her Grand Afternoon Charity Tea Party which raised a staggering £1000!!  The whole family pitched in to help, with Amelie's grandma making and selling lots of... read more →

The Lycée de Mogon has finally opened its two new classrooms - thanks to our wonderful supporters, the Gompels family.  This is one of four schools in the Extreme North region that are currently having new classrooms constructed.  The school has also benefitted from a new solid fence around its... read more →

The construction of our school projects in the Extreme North region can be slow-going at times!!  There is currently terrible flooding of the all the roads leading to our project at CES Dama in the Mayo Danay Division, so SHUMAS staff who were monitoring the building work had to put their... read more →

Our brilliant supporters at the Portsmouth companies of Market Makers and Lead Forensics are well underway with their fundraising for our charity for this year.  The plan is to build blocks of classrooms at two schools in the NW Region - GS Kungoh (a primary school whose current overcrowded and... read more →

Two young students, Henry Gardner-Roberts and Ed Gripper, recently got in touch with us to say they were going to trek the length of the River Thames - from its source right down to the Thames Barrier - to raise some funds for our projects.  And now they have done... read more →

On one of the hottest days so far this year, our plucky supporters from Bamboo Crowd decided to get dressed up in Panda suits as part of their attempt to raise £1000 for us.  They are such a great crowd and are already over half-way towards their target.  Thanks guys!  

Andrew (with the mike above) and Linda Hindle and their two young children, Amelie and Fraser, are - quite simply - Superstars!! They have started fundraising again for a third school building project through BSFA/SHUMAS - and this month the children took the lead with a sponsored climb up Mount Snowdon -... read more →

We are thrilled to welcome another company on board!  SUNESIS is supporting Building Schools for Africa and SHUMAS in our attempt to help as many Cameroonian children as possible to go to school in clean, hygienic, weatherproof classrooms.   They have started a new initiative of funding the construction of a school in Cameroon for every school they construct in the... read more →