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 Mayo-Linwa, with a current enrolment of 361 children) was housed in a small building made from mud blocks, unplastered and with no weatherproof roof.  This was blown down quite recently by high winds so the community has  put up some temporary grass shelters to act as classrooms for now.  The grass roofs offer some ..read more

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 to help 50 women in the Far North Region get training in Small Business Management and have funded the purchase of start-up materials for their businesses, mainly the buying and selling of  foodstuffs.  This group of women, most of whom have been traumatised by Gender Based Violence from marauding terrorists and left ..read more

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 news is very good indeed. Pupil enrolment this year has increased from 301 to 320 and there are almost as many girls attending school as there are boys.  The number of teachers has increased from 5 to 7, despite their pay being low and infrequent.  This is an extremely poor village with only 14% of families current ..read more

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 makeshift classrooms – and another 200 were on the waiting list to enrol.  This part of Bamenda is a safe area and many IDP families from all corners of the NW region had fled here during the recent political crisis.  Their children hadn’t been able to go to school for five years and social problems were on the increase ..read more

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 £8,860, will significantly improve the lives of all the children and teachers at the school, pupil absences will decline and it is anticipated that the children’s academic performance will improve as a consequence.  This part of the country lies in the Sahel: it is dry and dusty and communities are very poor.  Cho ..read more

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 the technical school, CETIC Kongola.  This is the only public technical school in an area serving 40 communities.  It currently has 592 students and 44 teachers but, until we managed to find the funding for this project, the school only had three properly constructed classrooms.  The majority of the classes were set o ..read more

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 programme and the primary school project in Ntahteka. We are REALLY grateful to everyone who responded to our request to support this Christmas Challenge – it’s such a great time of year to be generous towards those in need … if you can afford to do so.  Thank you ..read more

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.   Please consider this as an opportunity for your donation to be doubled, increasing opportunities for children in Cameroon to access education.  No child should have to go to school in conditions like those in the picture above. https://donate.biggive.org/donate/a056900002RXtdeAAD   ..read more

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 first school to benefit was All Saints Catholic College in Bayelle, where we recently created a fully equipped Science Laboratory to help students achieve the best possible results in their science exams.  SHUMAS decided to hold a rally of all students at the college where they encouraged the children to be aware of th ..read more

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 over to the community on 23rd November 2023, and is the first of our projects that Mr. Lowen has seen.  We understand that he was very impressed and enjoyed the visit immensely.  All the trustees of BSFA, the staff at SHUMAS and the staff and pupils of the school were so appreciative of this visit – it means a lot to ..read more