Humanitarian Response
Emergency clinic set up in a forest community
Since 2016, there has been a political crisis in Cameroon which has escalated into violent conflict between the Government and the Anglophone separatists.
Thousands have been killed, villages and businesses destroyed and many thousand anglophones have been displaced to other parts of the country. We have been able to respond to these new challenges, by supporting SHUMAS in its Relief Programme.
Despite the extremely dangerous situation, SHUMAS has been able to access these isolated and destitute communities and ascertain their needs. With our focus still clearly on children being able to access education.
Whilst our focus remained on children being safe and able to access education, we managed to find funding for emergency humanitarian aid for these desperate communities
Emergency resources
In recent years we fund the provision of;
Emergency humanitarian aid supplies and psycho-social counselling;
Access to primary education for IDP children, including pop-up classrooms, learning materials and teachers salaries;
Training and support for the restoration of livelihoods for widows and single mothers displaced by war, to enable them to send their children to school;
Agricultural training and start up materials for adolescents who have had to drop out of school because of the war;
We were also able to provide timely intervention with emergency COVID prevention materials and appropriate awareness training when the pandemic hit these vulnerable communities.
Vitamins provided for children who were malnourished.
Support we have provided
Emergency education
Emergency supplies
Seeds and plants for food
Business training for mothers
Emergency healthcare
One of the beneficiaries of the 3E programme who can now pay her children’s school fees.
Our current focus
Economic Empowerment for Education (3E) programme
This programme helps Internally Displaced widows and single mothers, who are destitute and who have children of school age. The programme provides them with small business training and appropriate start-up materials to provide them with an income which will feed their family and pay their children’s school needs.
The cost is approximately £100 per beneficiary.