Breaking: School collapses in Far North region

This video clip has just come through from our partner NGO in Cameroon. The primary school is in the Far North region. It collapsed on top of the children studying inside. Details are still coming through but we are hoping that we will be able to help this community...

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Meeting urgent education and protection needs

Meeting urgent education and protection needs

We will shortly be undertaking a new project, based in the North West and West regions, addressing the needs of many school aged children who are deprived of education because of war and are at risk of exploitation. Around 2,500 schools remain closed after seven...

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A new school coming soon to Mayo Linwa

A new school coming soon to Mayo Linwa

Earlier this year the village of  Peere in Mayo Linwa, Adamawa Region, was struck by high winds which tore the roof off the only classroom at their primary school.  The walls of the classroom, made from mud blocks, soon collapsed in the rains.  The parents of the 361...

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More destitute women trained in small business management

More destitute women trained in small business management

In recent months we have been able to build again on the enormous success of our Economic Empowerment for Education Project.  A further 75 destitute internally displaced women, now living in Yaounde and Bamenda, have been selected to benefit from SHUMAS' small...

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A new school year starts at St Paul’s Ntahkeka, Bamenda

A new school year starts at St Paul’s Ntahkeka, Bamenda

Our biggest ever school project was finally completed and handed over to the community of Ntahkeka in Bamenda II on 30th May 2024.  It was a day of great excitement and celebration.  This had been an audacious project from the start and it faced many difficulties...

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A promotional film for BSFA in the pipeline

A promotional film for BSFA in the pipeline

In April of this year, a small team from Main Road Films made their way out to Bamenda to capture some footage of the celebrations at the new school at St. Paul's Ntahkeka.  They met with staff, pupils and people from the local community: speeches were made, children...

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A new school coming soon to Mayo Linwa

Starting soon … our next school project

We are thrilled to be able to announce that a couple of our supporters have offered to fund another school building project this year.  It will take place at a small village called Peere, in the Adamawa Region. Until recently the school (Ecole Publique parent de...

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Real Progress – the Ntahtekah project

Real Progress – the Ntahtekah project

It was very exciting and encouraging to see how the community has come out to help on this project - our biggest school building project to date.  This is Participatory Development at its very best! The ground floor construction (three classrooms) is now complete and...

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Celebrating our 15th year as a charity!

Celebrating our 15th year as a charity!

Building Schools For Africa 2008 - 2023 Building Schools for Africa started as an idea in 2007 when Marianne (founding trustee of BSFA) came home from Cameroon with tales of a small rural community called Ntseimbang which was desperately in need of a school. She had...

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Economic Empowerment for Education in the Far North Region

Once again, with support from our funders, we have been able to help impoverished women who are the lone heads of households,  establish livelihoods for themselves and thus be able to feed their families and send their children to school. This year we have been able...

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Impact Report from EP de Sogum

Impact Report from EP de Sogum

Almost one year to the day that the new classrooms and office were handed over to the community in the village of Sogum in Cameroon's Far North Region, a team from the SHUMAS office in Maroua visited to assess the impact of the project.  We are pleased to say that the...

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Our most ambitious project yet

Our most ambitious project yet

There is a small plot of land behind St Paul's Catholic church in Ntahteka, Bamenda, which will soon be home to our most ambitious school project yet. When our trustees visited this school in January 2023, over 300 children from the local area were squeezed into small...

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A new water supply for a primary school

A new water supply for a primary school

Ecole Publique Kodek is situated in a village about 7 Kms from Maroua, the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon.  The school currently has 800 pupils enrolled but it has not had a supply of clean drinking water - until now!  This small project, costing just...

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Grand Opening for CETIC Kongola

Grand Opening for CETIC Kongola

23rd November 2023 was a day of great celebration in Kongola - a rural village in the sub-division of Maroua III in the Far North of Cameroon - as three new classrooms, an office and a new latrine (funded by BSFA and constructed by SHUMAS) were being handed over to...

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Big Give Christmas Challenge

Big Give Christmas Challenge

Many thanks to everyone who supported us during the Big Give Christmas Challenge.  With our matched funding, we reached a total of almost £6,000.  100% of this money will go directly to our current projects in Cameroon - the Economic Empowerment for Education...

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Matched Funding – One Donation – Twice the Impact!!

Matched Funding – One Donation – Twice the Impact!!

This year, Building Schools for Africa has linked up with the Big Give Christmas Challenge where modest individual donations to our charity, made between Tuesday November 28th and Tuesday December 5th through the link below, will be matched - up to a total of £6,250. ...

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Healing the Earth

Healing the Earth

Our partner, SHUMAS, has a new initiative designed to raise awareness in young people about environment issues, and also to improve their carbon footprint.  It is called the SHUMAS Healing the Earth Strategy and all projects will now incorporate this message.  The...

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CETIC Kongola gets a visit from the British High Commissioner

CETIC Kongola gets a visit from the British High Commissioner

We were so delighted to learn that the British High Commissioner, Mr. Barry Lowen, was able to visit the Technical High School at Kongola whilst he was in the Far North region recently.  CETIC Kongola is our latest school building project, which is due to be handed...

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Clean drinking water for the primary school at Kodek

Clean drinking water for the primary school at Kodek

There was great excitement today amongst the 800 children and the teachers at the primary school in Kodek, which is located approximately 7 Kms from Maroua, the capital of the Far North region of Cameroon.  A huge drilling rig arrived at the school and started to...

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New role for the SHUMAS Rehab Unit

New role for the SHUMAS Rehab Unit

The SHUMAS Rehab Unit at Mile 6 Nkwen, has undergone an major transformation in the past months.  For many years it provided training in skills from tailoring to hairdressing, shoe-making to basket weaving for disabled adults who were otherwise unable to earn a living...

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A new Science Lab for Bayelle

A new Science Lab for Bayelle

The school hall at All Saints Catholic College in Bayelle, Bamenda, was packed with pupils who were buzzing with excitement at the prospect of being able to study in their brand new science lab.  The fully equipped lab was handed over to the College in a wonderful...

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Working with International Communities Organisation

“ICO's goal is to be the leading international organisation working for peace and reconciliation in divided conflict settings with a special focus on enabling minority communities in these divided settings to participate in the respective peace process.” (James...

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Focus on the Far North

Focus on the Far North

The Far North region is the second most populated region of Cameroon and one of the poorest. The region currently faces immense challenges including weak public services and chronic insecurity caused by armed conflicts by the Boko Haram. The impacts of climate change...

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A trip that exceeded all expectations

A trip that exceeded all expectations

Two sixth-formers recently spent three weeks of their summer holiday working with our partner, SHUMAS, on behalf of Building Schools for Africa. Oby Gompels and Monty Woodward weren't entirely sure what they were letting themselves in for - but they declare they had a...

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Our next school building project

Our next school building project

We are excited to be funding another school building project in the Far North region this year.  The school that will be benefitting from a new classroom block, latrine with hand washing facilities and COVID 19 prevention materials is CETIC de Kongola in Maroua 111...

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Another Science Lab for school children in Bamenda

Another Science Lab for school children in Bamenda

We are excited to announce that work will soon start on a new Science Lab at All Saints Catholic College Bayelle in Bamenda, NW Region. All Saints College was created in 2019 in response to many requests from parents of children who had attended other secondary...

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Empowering Women One Step at a Time

Empowering Women One Step at a Time

By Oliver Smith In the early 1960s, after gaining independence from France and the UK, Cameroon was considered a place of hope in the central part of Africa, building essential infrastructure such as roads and railways as well as profitable agricultural and petroleum...

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Spotlight on SHUMAS

“There’s nothing greater than the feeling of helping another human. That's what motivates us.” Stephen Ndzerem, Founder and Director General, SHUMAS At Building Schools for Africa we have always been aware of the effectiveness of our exclusive partnership with...

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A New Primary School in the Far North Region

A New Primary School in the Far North Region

12th December 2022 was a joyful day in the village of Sogum.  After years of having to use straw huts as classrooms, the primary school in the village took ownership of three new properly constructed classrooms and a school office, built by SHUMAS contractors and...

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More of the beneficiaries of the 3E project

These are the beneficiaries of the Economic Empower for Education project that BSFA trustees met in Yaounde on 28th January 2023. Meriline is 35 years old. She came to Yaounde three years ago with her children aged 13, 10 and 6. She used to live in Kumbo and said she...

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Responding quickly to changing needs

Responding quickly to changing needs

When there is war in a country, it is essential for humanitarian agencies to be able to respond quickly to the changing needs of suffering communities and not have their response slowed by needless bureaucracy. Fortunately, our partner in Cameroon, SHUMAS, is expert...

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Our ‘Live’ newsletters from Cameroon – January 2023

Our ‘Live’ newsletters from Cameroon – January 2023

Normally our trustees visit Cameroon every year to monitor progress of our various projects, but this has not been possible in recent years because of the pandemic ... so the trip we made this January was really action-packed with SO MANY projects to visit and people...

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Our first visit to Bamenda since 2017

Our first visit to Bamenda since 2017

It was with mixed feelings that we ventured down into the middle of the town of Bamenda during our trip to Cameroon this year.  Bamenda has always been our 'home away from home' since we starting our partnership with SHUMAS, but we haven't been able to go there since...

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Economic Empowerment for Education – in action!

During our visit to Cameroon we met just some of the 100 IDP women that we have helped our partner, SHUMAS, to train in small business management.  The women were then each given start up materials, to the value of 50,000 CFAs (£65) to get their businesses started. In...

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How the 3E Project helped Kindness Shaye

How the 3E Project helped Kindness Shaye

Kindness Shaye is a 28 year old single mother of three children, aged 12, 10 and 7. She was physically abused by the father of the children who finally abandoned them and, because of the intense violence of the political crisis in her home village of Ndu, she fled...

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School Drop-Outs Project – another great success

School Drop-Outs Project – another great success

Last year we helped SHUMAS to launch a new initiative aimed at teenage boys and girls from the NW region, who had been forced to drop out of school early because of the war.  Most of these children had lost family members, some had signed up as child soldiers, many of...

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Summer Newsletter 2022

Please read all about what we have achieved in partnership with Shumas Cameroon over the past six months. 2022 Summer newsletter

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Community Learning Spaces for IDP children – a great success

Community Learning Spaces for IDP children – a great success

Whilst SHUMAS staff were busy implementing the Humanitarian Aid project at the IDP communities in Fungom, they were approached by many of the community leaders who begged them to try to find some way of getting their children back to school. They were desperate. All...

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Desperate times call for desperate measures in Fungom

Desperate times call for desperate measures in Fungom

This year we funded SHUMAS to undertake its biggest humanitarian aid project so far. 506 households – a total of 3050 Internally Displaced People - had been identified as being in dire need of humanitarian assistance in the Fungom district of Menchum Division in the...

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Good Luck to Cameroon in the Commonwealth Games

Good Luck to Cameroon in the Commonwealth Games

Spotted by our intrepid trustee from the Midlands, Andrew Hindle.  The Cameroon flag and team taking part in the rehearsal for the Opening Ceremony for the Commonwealth Games.  Welcome to England - and Good Luck!

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Empowering women to send their children to school

Empowering women to send their children to school

It has always been a problem for the poorest people in Cameroon to be able to earn sufficient money to send their children to school - and during the past seven years of war  this situation has got worse and worse.  The majority of the 3000+ anglophones who have been...

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A new Trustee for BSFA

A new Trustee for BSFA

Andrew Hindle and his family have been supporting this charity for the past ten years, during which time, they have raised funds for the construction of three primary schools, two school water supplies and the upgrading of a rural health centre.  Their fundraising has...

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Change of Project

Change of Project

It's not an easy task for our partners at SHUMAS, to find a suitable school project for our funders and then bring it all to completion without any hitches.  There can be any number of incidents that can cause a project to have to be abandoned - and the collection of...

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Surviving the war – and still working well.

Surviving the war – and still working well.

In 2015 we funded the construction of a secondary school building at Sabongari in the NW region and also helped the local heath centre with some new equipment. The community there was thrilled with both projects and the village really started to thrive.  However,  in...

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Our Latest Newsletter

Our biggest Humanitarian Relief project yet - read about it in our newsletter Please click on the link below to read our newsletter - giving details of what we have achieved since the summer 2022 January newsletter

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One very satisfied supporter!

One very satisfied supporter!

We recently sent a report to Andrew Hindle, one of our wonderful regular supporters, showing the progress that had been made on the project he and his family had funded. This was his response to us: "Excellent.  Yes thank you, I received the report and (it was) really...

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The Power of Football

The Power of Football

It is salutary to note that the recent start of the African Cup of Nations football competition, hosted by Cameroon,  has prompted the British media to suddenly show an interest in the five-year long war in that country.  The war, between the French-speaking...

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Our next school project

Our next school project

We are hoping that our next school project will be underway soon in the village of Njimbong in the Littoral region.  This village is very remote in the forest area, 28 Kms from the nearest town of Yabassi.  The school was created in 2014.  It is the only school in the...

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Getting essential aid to Fungom sub-division

Getting essential aid to Fungom sub-division

This is our biggest humanitarian aid project yet, in terms of numbers of people who will be helped - and the impact will be huge. SHUMAS has identified 506 IDP households - a total of 3050 people - who are  very isolated and vulnerable, living in abject poverty and...

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Our current building projects

Our current building projects

Water is essential for life and in rural Cameroon, it is usually the women and girls who have to collect water each day for the family needs.  To have potable water near to their homes saves hours of walking and means more girl children can go to school, so we have...

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We are so proud of this project!

We are so proud of this project!

It has been five years now since all schools in the NW/SW regions of Cameroon were closed because of war.  More than 78 of these have been destroyed in the fighting and, although a few are now back functioning again, there are no formal schools open at all in the Bui...

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Our latest school project – underway!

Our latest school project – underway!

The dry season has arrived at last in Cameroon, and work started immediately on the new classroom block at the Government Bilingual High School in the village of Ntui in the Centre region.  The foundations were dug in record time and the groundwork has now been...

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Improving sanitation and health at Bayelle

Improving sanitation and health at Bayelle

Since the political crisis started back in 2016, two primary schools and a nursery school in the village of Bayelle, have joined forces to make one large primary and nursery school with approximately 2,000 pupils and 55 teachers.  It has managed to keep functioning...

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Still smiling at the end of their Triathlon

Still smiling at the end of their Triathlon

Our fabulous supporters, the Hindle Family, have been pulling out all the stops again to raise money for a project that is close to their hearts.  In 2019, Andrew and Linda and their two children - Amelie and Fraser - travelled to Cameroon to witness the handover of a...

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School doing well – against all the odds!

School doing well – against all the odds!

It was so exciting to learn this week that the little primary school at Fungeh is still doing well. When we first visited Fungeh, back in 2008, the school was being held in a crumbling ruin with a meagre thatch roof.  The children had a constant battle with rain and...

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Our Latest School Project

Our Latest School Project

This brand new school building was handed over to the community at Mindassi in the Central Region in April 2021.  It is a marked improvement on the old school building  (see pictures below) which had three tiny classrooms for 6 year groups, very few benches and no...

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Lots of new benches

Lots of new benches

It's the little things in life that mean the most - especially if you haven't been able to go to school for years and you are desperate to catch up! St John's school in Bamenda needed lots of new benches so that the children didn't have to be crowded together in the...

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Learning in the dry – at last!

Learning in the dry – at last!

The children in Jakiri have not been able to attend school for more than four years.  Almost all schools in the NW Region have been closed because of the socio-politial crisis that has been escalating since 2016, but the children were desperate to get back to...

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Salaries of Charity CEOs

Reports of high salaries paid to charity staff have recently appeared in the UK press. The highest paid UK charity CEO reportedly earns £4.5 million a year. Salaries over £100k are very common in the UK charity sector. In the light of this the Charity Commission is...

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Can you help us get more benches for this school?

Can you help us get more benches for this school?

It's just a few more days before children in the UK return to school after two months of having to work from home.  Our schools will be prepared with COVID testing facilities and social distancing in place.  Imagine what it must be like for these children who have...

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COVID causes a change of plan

COVID causes a change of plan

At the beginning of 2020, we received a wonderful donation of 21 reconditioned laptops from our supporters at Willmott Dixon.  These were destined to be shipped out to Cameroon and distributed to some of our secondary schools there - but unfortunately the pandemic...

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Our Latest Newsletter

Our regular supporters will have received our latest newsletter in their inboxes last week.  We hope you all enjoyed reading about all we have achieved over the past six months. If any of you missed it, try checking your Spam files (just in case!) .... or you can have...

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The challenges of delivering emergency relief items.

The challenges of delivering emergency relief items.

Our project to provide emergency humanitarian relief to 1000 of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the hard-to-reach areas wasn't exactly easy to deliver! But our partner, SHUMAS, was as resourceful as ever. Many items, including 400 mattresses and mosquito...

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A much needed new latrine!

A much needed new latrine!

The St John Nursery and Primary school in Nkwen, NW Region was started by missionaries in 1988.  It was always a very popular and busy school until the escalation of the crisis caused all schools in the region to close in 2016.  However, it ventured to re-open in...

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Another new Science Lab

Another new Science Lab

December 4th 2020 saw the opening of the third purpose-built High School science lab that our charity has been able to fund. This one is at the Government Bilingual High School Bekoko in Littoral Region.  The school has just over 1000 students at present, including...

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Humanitarian project in Kourap completed

Humanitarian project in Kourap completed

On the night of 11th October 2018, the little village of N'taba in NW Region was attacked by unidentified armed men.  The houses were razed to the ground, the villagers' cattle were stolen and the 171 villagers fled, taking nothing with them, to Kourap in the West...

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Helping to save the lives of premature babies

Helping to save the lives of premature babies

St Odile is the largest Health Centre in Edea, Littoral Region, but it doesn't have clean drinking water and it doesn't have a reliable electricity supply.  It sees around 2000  patients annually, including mothers with premature babies from across the whole area. ...

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The Power of Friendship

The Power of Friendship

Five years ago, BSFA was able to help the village of Sabongari by funding the construction of a classroom block at their secondary school.  The villagers have remained very grateful and good friends of our partner SHUMAS ever since.  They heard that SHUMAS was helping...

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New school building for IDPs in Bamenda

New school building for IDPs in Bamenda

We are so pleased to be able to announce that the little primary and nursery school, CS Charles Luanga,  in Up Station Bamenda will soon have a new school building, complete with furniture and blackboards, a head teacher's office and a new latrine - thanks to a...

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Our pop-up Community Schools Project

Our pop-up Community Schools Project

We are delighted to have been able to fund the construction of a pop-up school in each of two IDP communities (Nkah and Benakuma) in the forest regions this year, and to provide learning materials for a third community school in the semi-urban community of Chinde. ...

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Helping hundreds more IDPs get humanitarian aid

Helping hundreds more IDPs get humanitarian aid

The emergency humanitarian relief project for 1000 Internally Displaced People, which BSFA funded earlier this year, has been such a great success that we are now able to repeat it, on a smaller scale, thanks to additional funds donated by our wonderful supporters....

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Happy to be helping more children get back to school

Happy to be helping more children get back to school

Many children in the developed countries of the world will be feeling excited and relieved to be getting back to school after six months of being stuck at home because of the Coronavirus.  Imagine how the anglophone children in Cameroon must be feeling after almost...

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Such good news from Mbiame, NW Region

Such good news from Mbiame, NW Region

Back in 2015, thanks to our wonderful supporters at Market Makers, we funded some school projects in Mbiame, one of which was the little Nursery School at Ntoh Mbiame. The following year, unfortunately, almost all schools in the NW and SW regions started to close...

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Testing for malnutrition

Testing for malnutrition

Many of the children in the IDP communities in Cameroon are suffering from either Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) or Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) during this period of political unrest.  It is very hard for families to get food.  Their livelihoods and farms are...

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Inexpensive and effective help for the IDPs

Inexpensive and effective help for the IDPs

Here are two examples of how practical help can enable children to continue with their education. Nearly all schools in the NW Region have been closed for almost four years, but the teacher training college at Mbengwi has been struggling to keep open as often as...

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COVID causes a change of plan

Computers for the children in Cameroon

We recently received a wonderful donation of 21 reconditioned laptops from Willmott Dixon.  These are destined for children in secondary education and will make an enormous difference to their ability to study and pass exams.  In Cameroon around 90% of children write...

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COViD-19 in Cameroon

COViD-19 in Cameroon

As if there weren't enough difficulties in Cameroon at the moment, COVID-19 has now arrived and it is spreading quickly.  Our partner in Cameroon, SHUMAS, has been quick to respond to this new crisis and is busy getting information about social distancing and how to...

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Our Special Appeal for 2020

Our Special Appeal for 2020

During our trustees' visit to Cameroon in November 2019, we saw at first hand some of the appalling situations of the anglophone Internally Displaced People (IDPs), thousands of whom had fled their homes, farms and businesses in the NW and SW regions in order to...

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We have almost reached our target!

Thanks to three large donations from supporters, we have very nearly reached our target for the Special Appeal to improve the living conditions of 1000 Internally Displaced People in hard-to-reach communities in the forests and the bush regions of NW & SW...

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Dragon School does it again!

Our most grateful thanks are due, once again, to the children at the Dragon School in Oxford who recently sent us a second marvellous donation of over £300 towards our projects. Last November, the BSFA trustees who travelled out to Cameroon to hand over our 2019...

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Meetings with Government Ministers

Meetings with Government Ministers

This November we were fortunate to have a meeting with the newly appointed Prime Minister of Cameroon, His Excellency Joseph Ngute.  His Special Adviser has known of SHUMAS' work with BSFA for many years and he was keen that the Prime Minister should learn more about...

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Projects completed in 2019

Schools   These pictures of old and new school buildings show just some of what we achieved in 2019, thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. New classroom blocks,...

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We are celebrating World Toilet Day today.

We are celebrating World Toilet Day today.

We build new toilets at each of our school projects.  They are not fancy by western standards: they are Ventilated Deep Pit Latrines which are divided into cubicles, providig essential privacy - and they are appropriate structures for these rural locations.  Each...

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Our latest newsletter – Summer 2019

Our latest newsletter – Summer 2019

Our latest newsletter can be downloaded here  Newsletter _ Summer 2019 Update Our emphasis this year, across all our projects, has been to help as many Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Cameroon as possible. We hope you find it an enjoyable and informative read.

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Please support our special appeal

Please support our special appeal

This is the kind of makeshift house that thousands of families now call home in the jungle and bush areas of the NW and SW regions of Cameroon.  Their villages have been burned, their subsistence farms destroyed, family members killed.  They live in fear of their...

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Number of IDPs doubled in one year

Number of IDPs doubled in one year

The UN has recently announced that the number of anglophones who have become displaced since the start of the political crisis in 2016 has doubled since 2018.  There are now a million IDPs from the NW and SW regions of Cameroon - very many of whom have fled to the...

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Our 100th school project!

Our 100th school project!

We are so proud and very very happy to announce that our 100th school building project has been completed.  The primary school in the village of Konya Mbetta, in the Centre region, is finished and the children are already using their new classrooms.  There will be a...

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Our 99th school project !

Our 99th school project !

We are SO CLOSE to our 100th school project now .. we can hardly believe it. Thanks to the Ken Hughes Foundation, we have been able to send out the funds to construct 3 classrooms, an office and a new latrine at EP Bake in the West Region, where many of the Internally...

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The football fundraiser

The football fundraiser

Huge thanks are due to Kevin Dundas at Willmott Dixon for organising this year's football tournament, with teams taking part from their various suppliers.  This is the second such tournament and it looks as though they will have raised around £600 for BSFA (almost...

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Toilets might not be glamorous ….

... but they are so essential!! A new Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine at a school makes all the difference to the health, well-being and confidence of children - and it means that girls can continue going to school after they reach puberty, when otherwise they might...

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Our latest newsletter – Summer 2019

Another school project funded

It's very exciting.  We are getting close to 100 new school buildings funded since Building Schools for Africa started working with SHUMAS Cameroon in 2007.  This little primary school, called Ecole Publique Bamendou Chefferie is located in Penka Michel sub-division...

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Family fundraiser

Family fundraiser

Can you help Andrew Hindle and his family as they make their final dash towards their fundraising target of £16,750?  They are fundraising for 2 classrooms with all necessary furniture, an office and a new latrine to be built at the little bilingual primary school at...

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More projects underway

We were delighted recently to have been able to send funds to our partner in Cameroon which will enable the construction  of two more really worthwhile projects. Three classrooms with all necessary furniture, an office/store, a new latrine and a borehole for clean...

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Fundraising Footie

Following on from their successful fundraising football tournament last year, our supporters at Willmott Dixon are holding another - this time in Birmingham. If you are a football fan and live anywhere near Birmingham, do go along and support this event.  It will be a...

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Please support our fabulous fundraisers

Amelie and Fraser Hindle have often featured on our fundraising posts over the past few years.  They are big supporters of BSFA. In fact, the whole Hindle family have been amazing at fundraising for us.  They have already funded two school building projects through us...

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Rather belatedly posted … our Christmas Newsletter!!

Sometimes things get overlooked don't they?  It's the end of April and we have only just realised that we didn't post a link to our most recent Newsletter.... the Christmas one!   Oops.  We hope you enjoy reading it. December 18 newsletter

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New classrooms finished just before the rains

The new block of classrooms at Ecole Publique St. Barthelemy have been finished in record time.... and just before the rain pours down by the look of the photo.  All the building materials can now be cleared away to be used on our next project - then the 205 children...

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The Construction Industry spreads the word

It was really good to see an article printed by the Chartered Institute of Building in their magazine, giving our charity a very nice plug.  The article, below, is referring to the Sunesis initiative called A School for a School, where the company funds the...

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A marvellous gift for the Marvellous Nursery School

A marvellous gift for the Marvellous Nursery School

These little tots used to have to sit on the floor of their school room, or on a concrete block or a rock.  There were no tables for them to work at and no facilities at all, other than the teachers.  Thanks to our supporters at Sunesis, the children now have new...

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Another school on its way – thanks to Sunesis

We are delighted to announce that the little bilingual primary school, GBPS Sodiko, will shortly be benefitting from three new classrooms, an office and a new latrine.  The school is currently being held in a borrowed house that has been divided up with plywood sheets...

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Wonderful donation from the Dragon School

All the trustees of Building Schools for Africa would like to thank the Dragon School in Oxfordshire for their splendid donation of over £235.  This will buy 10 benches for primary school children - which will mean 30 of these children will no longer either have to...

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Great Progress at CS Batoke

The children at this little primary school, CS Batoke in Limbe, can hardly believe their eyes as they see their new school taking shape.  Up until now they have been studying in a ramshackle wooden construction with gaping holes in the plank walls and a leaky roof:...

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A Christmas present for nursery children

There is a little bilingual nursery school at Akok-Ndoe, on the outskirts of the capital of Cameroon, Yaounde.  The school is ironically called the Marvellous nursery school, however its facilities are far from marvellous.  The school has no building, so it has...

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Clean water for EP Kalong

There is cholera in Cameroon at the moment - and we are doing all we can to help reduce the spread of this dreadful disease.  Clean drinking water and good sanitation are key to preventing cholera from spreading.  Last year we funded a new block of classrooms at Ecole...

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Good news for CS Batoke

We are so pleased to be able to announce that this little primary school in the south of Cameroon will soon have three new purpose-built classrooms (to replace those in the picture), an office and a new latrine with hand-washing facilities.  This will make such a...

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130,000 steps … that’s a long walk!

We are delighted to announce that the wonderful group of supporters from Market Makers and Really B2B have survived their charity walk.  It took a total of 20 hours to get around the Isle of Wight last weekend, in the rain, wind and cold - but their spirits never...

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What a day for a walk!

It has hardly rained at all for months and months here on the Isle of Wight, where Building Schools for Africa is based .... until today, that is.  Suddenly it is distinctly autumnal - cold, windy and raining - and yet this plucky bunch from Market Makers and Really...

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Solar Lamps in remote villages

For the past three months, a pilot scheme has been running in the remote village of Buh in the NW Region, bringing solar powered light to households in the village, and a little extra money to the entrepreneurs who are trying this business project, introduced by...

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Amazing fundraisers

The Hindle family are on a mission to raise sufficient funds to build a THIRD school through BSFA.  This summer they organised a four-day relay marathon, with participants running the length of Offa's Dyke - a magnificent effort in anyone's book - and they followed...

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Another great school project opened

Thanks go to our wonderful supporters at Clymac who funded the construction of a new classroom block at the technical secondary school Banock, which was opened this week.   This was a wonderful example of participatory development in action.  The whole community got...

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FUNdraising football

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!  To Kevin Dundas from Sunesis (first on the left in the back row) and all these fellas who work for Sunesis suppliers.  They obviously had a great time taking part in a fabulous fundraising football tournament, organised by Kevin, to raise...

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THANK YOU – Positech!!

Another small school will soon be celebrating the news that their pupils will be able to learn in brand new classrooms by the end of this year.   Currently, the classrooms at St. Therese Nursery and Primary school in Muyuka in SW Region are made from roughly sawn...

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Football Fundraiser

Our fantastic supporters at Sunesis are raising funds for our charity by organising a friendly football tournament for their supply chain on 22nd May.  The venue is yet to be confirmed .... will it be Wembley?? Football 22nd May

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Welcome recognition for BSFA/SHUMAS projects

On the 15th February 2018 the British High Commissioner for Cameroon, Rowan Laxton, and the British Minister of State for Africa, Harriet Baldwin, visited our newly opened science lab at GBHS Sodiko, in the company of Billian Nyuykighan, the Programme Co-ordinator for...

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Practical experience for students

Thanks to generous funding from our regular supporters at Clymac, three new classrooms and a latrine are under construction at CETIC Banock - a technical secondary school in the West Region.  The number of pupils at this school is growing rapidly and the community has...

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Inside the science lab

GBHS Sodiko not only received the new science block building but it came fully equipped and ready for the students to get to work with their practical experiments.  Clean drinking water was also supplied at this school, and we are expecting that, in the months to...

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A brand new science lab

We are delighted to be able to report that the new science lab at GBHS Sodiko was opened today (8th February 2018). This bilingual high school is in the Douala sub-division of Littoral Region and, up until today, all the students studying science in the fifth and...

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Bapes Mondial school underway … at last!

The school community in the poor little village of Bapes Mondial (Centre Region) has been struggling for months and months to get their local contributions together so that we can help them build 3 new classrooms, an office and a latrine, to replace their current...

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Celebrations in Kalong

"Life in Kalong will never be the same again!"   This was the message we received from the Director of SHUMAS on the day that he handed over the keys to a block of 3 new classrooms, an office and a new latrine at Kalong primary school.  Ever since the school was...

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Thanks to our supporters in the USA

Our heartfelt thanks go to the students at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts who have been fundraising to support our projects since 2009.  They have just sent us sufficient funds to pay for the borehole which will provide clean drinking water for the...

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More news on the Offa’s Dyke run

This will be a real TEAM effort from Thursday June 28th to Sunday July 1st 2018. Although at least two of the runners at this event will run the whole 180 miles, it is being organised as a Relay Run so as to include as many enthusiastic supporters as possible.  The...

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Anyone fancy a run?

Our amazing supporter, Andrew Hindle, is really going the extra mile this year to raise sufficient funds to construct his THIRD school building through our charity!  A couple of Andrew's friends are planning on running the length of Offa's Dyke (that's 180 miles!)...

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Great support from Sunesis

It's great to have Kevin Dundas as one of our enthusiastic supporters.  Kevin keeps his colleagues at Sunesis updated with all the work they are doing with Building Schools for Africa through his blog and a short video he made about our work.  We can't wait for him to...

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Thanks to North Walsham

We were so pleased this week to receive a wonderful donation of almost £250 from North Walsham High School. Our charity was chosen by the Head Girl and Head Boy to benefit from the money the school raised through their non-uniform day at the end of last term.  Thanks...

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Another two schools are underway

We are so pleased to have been able to send our partner NGO, SHUMAS, the funds for two more school projects this week.  Building will start straight away on 3 classrooms, an office and a new latrine at the primary schools in two villages in the Centre Region, Bapes...

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The Hindle family keep on fundraising

Andrew Hindle is raising funds for a third school in Cameroon - and his whole family is on board supporting him.  They are simply amazing - and we love it that they are such ardent supporters of ours.   The fundraising has been going on for some time already and, in...

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Our Latest Newsletter – Summer 2017

Keep up to date with all that's been going on at Building Schools for Africa in the past few months.   Our latest newsletter has some initial findings from our 10-year Impact Assessment - which are all very encouraging and, we hope, interesting to our supporters....

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Small donations making a BIG difference!

A couple of modest donations that have come in to the charity lately are really going to make all the difference to the life chances of some children in Cameroon.  Many young children are prevented from going to primary school because their parents are too poor to...

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Let there be light!!!

Two of the very remote primary schools that we supported with 6 classrooms apiece back in 2010, the Islamic school IPS Bamdzeng and the Baptist school CBC Bamdzeng, now have the benefit of electricity - thanks to a renewable energy project undertaken by SHUMAS with...

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New school classroom blocks underway

Despite all the setbacks to progress caused by the civil unrest in Cameroon in recent months, the SHUMAS team has been able to get these classrooms at GSS Ichim built and almost ready for handover to the community.  BSFA trustees are looking forward to making a visit...

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Another school and more clean water

Another primary school is about to be constructed in the South Region, thanks to our wonderful supporters at Clymac.  Ecole Publique d'Edjom will soon have three new classrooms complete with blackboards, benches, tables and chairs, an office and a new VIP latrine  -...

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One of the schools we are hoping to help this year.

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...

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The impact of our water projects

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...

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Clean drinking water at Upper Munjong

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...

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Improved health facilities at Wainamah

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...

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Rising to the (Three Peaks) challenge!

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...

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A new collaborative project under construction

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...

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Just waiting for the formal handover

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...

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Clean water for a community

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...

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A generous gift to our technical schools

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...

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A new funder and a new school

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...

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Triathlon fundraiser

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...

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Trip postponed

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...

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Our bags are getting heavier!

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...

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Our Christmas 2016 Newsletter

We hope you have all enjoyed a happy and peaceful Christmas.   We hope you enjoy reading our latest newsletter, which is accessible if you click on the link below christmas_newsletter_2016_december All the trustees of Building Schools for Africa would like to wish you...

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Thanks a million … again!

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...

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Stephen and Billian visit the UK

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...

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Support from suppliers

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...

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Schools in Extreme North finally opened

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...

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A whole load of scrummy cakes!!

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...

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Another successful school opening

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...

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Floods in Extreme North hamper progress

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...

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Fundraising begins for two more schools

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...

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Trekking the length of the Thames

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...

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Bamboo Crowd – fundraising in Panda suits!

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...

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The Hindle family are fundraising again!!

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...

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A School for a School!!

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...

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Profits from a Fiver challenge

We recently received a wonderful donation from a primary school pupil from Ripon.Hamish took part in a 'Fiver Challenge' - he spent his fiver on seeds and set up a gardening business, weeding and planting at the gardens of friends and neighbours and also sold flowers...

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Our Summer Newsletter

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...

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Fundraising food at Brighstone Primary school

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...

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Thanks to Caistor Grammar School pupils

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...

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The Snaith School supports BSFA

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...

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End2End for children in Cameroon

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...

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Essential new schools underway in the Extreme North region

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...

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Two more schools funded

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...

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Bamboo Crowd run for us

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 -...

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Our Latest Newsletter – December 2015

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...

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Amelie following in her dad’s footsteps

Young Amelie Hindle is a regular fundraiser for us.  She is currently helping her dad, Andrew, raise enough funds to construct classrooms and clean water at Ngouekong King Place primary school in Babadjou, West Region.  Earlier this year Andrew undertook the...

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An inspiring young fundraiser

We are so lucky to get the support of young Mariyah Nadeem.  She is just turning 18 and now that she has left school, she has recognised how really lucky she has been to get such a good education in the UK.  She has set herself the target of raising £4000 in order to...

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May 2015 Newsletter

The Building School for Africa charity raises money for projects in Cameroon which contribute to the UN development goal of ensuring that boys and girls everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Building Schools for Africa builds schools...

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Famous friends supporting Andrew’s fundraising

Andrew Hindle is relentless in his efforts to fundraise for our charity - and he is well on his way to achieve his target of £20,000 this year, which will provide classrooms and a latrine at the primary school, water for the village and equipment for the medical...

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Welcome on board, Positech UK

We are delighted that Positech UK, a one-man computer games company, has chosen to support our charity.  The pupils at the little primary school in the village of Salle  in the East Region of Cameroon, could hardly believe their good fortune as the school has...

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Brilliant Midsummer Ball Fundraiser

The most splendid Midsummer Ball was held at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Saturday 13th June.  It was part of Andrew and Linda Hindle's fundraising campaign to rebuild the primary school at at the village of Babadjou in the West region, and the event raised well...

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Water on its way!

We are making a concerted effort this year to get clean drinking water to many of the schools we have already helped with new classroom blocks.  The children will no longer have to drink from streams and this will significantly reduce their risk of suffering from...

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The other side of the Mud Run

Congratulations to Andrew Hindle's group of Mud Runners in Derbyshire.  They all survived the course - and Andrew managed to keep his bow tie on to the end!  They also raised well over £500 towards their target of £20,000 - and they seem determined to smile all the...

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Clean drinking water for schools in the Far North

The Far North region in Cameroon is exceptionally dry, except during the very short rainy season when flash floods have been known to wash children away whilst they were on their way to school.  Getting clean drinking water is very difficult for many school children....

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Fantastic fundraising at Chichester High School for Girls

The pupils of Ennis House at Chichester High School for Girls, really pulled out all the stops during their recent Charity Week.  With fantastic support from the Head of Year, Kate Whitmill, just 200 girls from 8 form groups raised an amazing £500 for us.    How did...

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A new bridge for Roh Kimbo

At last the children from all parts of Kumbo Central can travel safely to school.  This new permanent river bridge was opened at the end of March 2015.  It replaces a dilapidated wood and bamboo structure that was collapsing under the strain of weighty lorries,...

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Insane Fundraising!

All the trustees of Building Schools for Africa are immensely grateful to the students from Royal Holloway College who were involved in the Insanity Radio broadcast over the Easter holidays. Katherine, Matthew and Harley undertook a mammoth 24-hour charity broadcast...

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An unexpected boost

We have had an unexpected and generous donation which will really give a boost to the students with disabilities at the SHUMAS Rehabilitation Centre. For some years now SHUMAS has been training young adult students with various physical and/or mental difficulties, in...

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Mud Run

Good luck and best wishes to Andrew Hindle and his team of fellow mad-caps who are undertaking a sponsored Mud Run for us today (18th April). This is one of several fundraising events which Andrew is organizing to raise money for classrooms and a latrine at this...

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More fundraising by our supporters

The staff at Market Makers and Lead Forensics in Portsmouth are really going the extra mile to raise funds to build  schools in Cameroon.  This year they have a Mission to get to London by various means.  Some people are going to cycle to the capital from Portsmouth,...

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Insanity Radio fundraising

We have recently learnt that students from Royal Holloway College in Surrey are undertaking a whole string of 24-hour broadcasts over the Easter Holidays, on their university radio station - Insanity Radio (103.2 FM in the Surrey area, or on-line at insanityradio.com...

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A New Health Centre Opened at Kovifem

The 25th February 2015 was a long awaited day of celebration for the people in Kumbo Central when a brand new Health Centre was opened at Kovifem, funded by BSFA supporters.  This forms part of a large integrated project which also included the construction of...

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Two more Technical Secondary Schools opened

Friday 20th February 2015 was another great day for secondary education in NW Cameroon, with another two Technical Secondary Schools getting new classrooms blocks for their pupils.  Government Technical College (GTC) Ntigi in Bambili got four new classrooms and GTC...

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Projects ready to be opened soon

The next few months will be a busy time for SHUMAS  as it is hoped that all the projects we have funded recently will be handed over to their respective communities in the first quarter of 2015.  The communities themselves are busy too - digging new catchments for...

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School funded by schoolchildren

A number of the students at Amherst High School in Massachusetts, USA belong to a club which likes to make an impact on the world.  And they have certainly managed that!  This year they raised $20,000 which is helping the children at the Government Bilingual Primary...

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FUNdraising for BSFA

Andrew Hindle is certainly concentrating on FUN with his fundraising for us in 2015!  He is encouraging others to join him in a Wild Warrior Race in April and is also organising a Mid Summer Ball at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on June 13th.  His target for...

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Christmas fundraising

Huge thanks are due to two local Isle of Wight men's singing groups - the Brighstone Barnacles and the Slipshod Singers - who raised almost £600 for our charity at a concert which formed part of the Brighstone Christmas Tree festival.  Thanks very much indeed, chaps....

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Amazing year for Mbveh village

AidCamps International volunteers have really helped us to put the village of Mbveh on the map this year.  The primary school classrooms were refurbished and re-equipped by one group of volunteers in January and in November another group funded the construction of two...

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October 2014 Newsletter

The Building School for Africa charity raises money for projects in Cameroon which contribute to the UN development goal of ensuring that boys and girls everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Building Schools for Africa builds schools...

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Recent Support for New Projects

Market Makers funded  a third  significant project through BSFA in 2013 and three schools, equipment for a health centre and a water supply at Makanene (Centre Region) are about to be opened by a team of employees who are flying out especially for the occasion.  They...

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We Feel Like Millionaires!!

We have now raised over £1million - thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. This is AMAZING!! ... and we would like to thank each and every one of you who have helped us. In the UK, this amount of money would probably build perhaps three classrooms at a...

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Progress on Projects in Kumbo Central

Our project in Kumbo Central is the largest undertaken by us to date.  It will make a significant difference to the lives of thousands of people in the area.  Five schools are all now complete and were handed over to the village communities in April 2014.  The river...

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