We are pleased to publish our latest newsletter, which you can download and print if you wish. It has been a really busy year to date, with lots of new classroom blocks at schools being opened and clean drinking water provided to communities that have never before enjoyed this basic... read more →
Jun
30
Jun
30
The pupils in Year 6 at Brighstone Primary School are really enjoying working in their brand new classroom - and were concerned to see how children have to put up with terrible conditions at many schools in Cameroon. They decided to raise some money for BSFA and agreed that food is... read more →
Jun
30
The pupils at Caistor Grammar School decided to donate the money they raised earlier this year to Building Schools for Africa. We were delighted, needless to say! It may not sound very glamorous but their fundraising has paid for the construction of the new VIP latrine at one of the... read more →
Jun
20
We had a lovely surprise in April - a cheque for over £100 from The Snaith School in East Yorkshire! The girls at this secondary school decided that they would like to help children in Africa get a better education, so they organised a bake sale which raised this splendid... read more →
Jun
04
A group of eight students and two teachers from Robert Gordon's College are making the stupendous effort of cycling from Land's End to John o'Groats to raise the money to build a classroom for children in Cameroon. What a BRILLIANT effort - and such a memorable event for every member of... read more →
May
25
Thanks to the fabulous financial support we have received from this year, we have been able to help SHUMAS to construct classroom blocks at desperately needy schools, like the one in the picture above at EP Maye Ibbe in the Extreme North region of Cameroon. This region is really suffering... read more →
Jan
24
We are very pleased to be able to announce that we have started the 2016 building programme with classroom blocks at two primary schools in the NW Region. GS Keonom is really looking forward to new classrooms to replace this very fragile construction, and St. Francis Xavier Primary and Nursery... read more →
Jan
24
Bamboo Crowd employees set themselves the challenge of running from Henley on Thames to Regents Park - 100 kms - to raise money for our projects ..... and they did it in December! Brrrr !! They formed themselves into teams and ran a relay of 20 kms each team -... read more →
Dec
29
We are pleased to publish our latest newsletter, which you can download and print if you wish. You will see that we haven't included any pictures in this edition - that is because we had SO MUCH we wanted to say following our recent visit to Cameroon that there wasn't... read more →
Oct
16
Imagine our delight when we opened the post today to find this note and a donation of £2. Thank you very much, Sam.