Schools For Africa

Building a Future for These Communities

Our Progress to Date

THIRTY SEVEN SCHOOLS NOW FUNDED!!

Five schools, at Ntseimbang, Menjung, Quebessi, Bamali and Roh Meluf, were opened in 2007/8 and are now running successfully. Another seven, at Njap, Fungeh, Mbande, Njinikejem, Kumbo, Ndzevru and Achailam, were opened in December 2009.

Pictures of all these schools can be found on our Buildings Schools for Africa Facebook page.

Pictures of the schools opened in 2010/11 are now on the Building Schools page on this website.

Construction is now well underway on seven more schools funded by BSFA supporters. These will be completed by October this year, once the next rainy season has ended and they will be formally opened in November 2011.

GS Buh

CSS Lassin

G.S. Ber

C.S. Idenau

GS Abang has no school building at all. It is currently borrowing this house

GS Engomba in the South Region

GTC Jakiri

Local house being used as a schoolroom in the village of Mot

Thanks to further generous donations, the reconstruction of the schools below will start in a couple of months, as soon as the rainy season finishes.

GS Ndengue, South Region Cameroon

CS Mayo Darle, North Region Cameroon

GS Ndegvaya, Extreme North Region

GPNS Ntoh-Nseh, NW Region

Also the CETIC Technical School in Goulfey, Extreme North Region (no picture available at the moment)

Building Schools for Cameroon

The UN's second Millenium Development Goal

Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Our aim is to help to achieve this goal by raising money to build schools in rural Africa through our partner NGO Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS), Cameroon.

In addition to clean, hygienic and well-constructed classrooms, we aim to ensure clean drinking water and sanitation facilities are available at each of the schools we support, in order to help improve the health of the children.

"Education is the door to freedom, democracy and development"

(Nelson Mandela)

Donate Online

Secure On-Line donations to Building Schools for Africa can now be made through JustGiving.

£40 will buy 10 sets of primary school uniforms
£135 will buy a sewing machine or a set of carpentry tools
£235 will buy 50 text books for the children to share
£400 will help us build toilets for a school.
£500 will help us install clean drinking water.
£5000 will help us build a new classroom.

Help Us Build a School

Each year, SHUMAS, our partner organisation in Cameroon, receives hundreds of applications from rural villages asking help to rebuild their local schools. From these they ascertain which communities really are in need of help and then visit sometimes as many as 100 villages per year, to determine which schools are 'top priority', because of the state of dilapidation of the buildings. These are the schools that we are raising money for.

Building Schools For Africa started fundraising in April 2007. To date, we have funded the construction of 135 classrooms at 37 schools, and there are more in the pipeline. It costs so little to build a village primary school in Cameroon, and each school improves the lives of thousands of children.

Will you help us?

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Building Schools for Africa is a UK registered charity, number 1127661.

Millennium Development Goals

SHUMAS has recently been appointed by the Cameroonian government as inspectors of the progress towards the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals in NW Region. This is a great feather in the cap of our partner NGO and we congratulate them.

More support from the business world

Welcome aboard to two more companies that are helping us to build more schools. Pageant Media (London) have funded the reconstruction of CBC Mbot and Market Makers (Portsmouth) are funding the construction of both nursery classrooms and primary school classrooms in Nseh. Construction is already underway and these schools are expected to be finished early in 2012.

A new initiative means the possibility of new text books at the schools that we fund. See details on our What We Aim To Do page.

Yet more schools - thanks to Clymac

We are SO grateful to Clymac Ltd for its continued support of our school building projects. This year Clymac has funded the reconstruction of CSS Lassin in the NW Region, CS Mayo Darle in the North and CETIC Goulfey and GS Ndegvaya, both of which are in the Extreme North Region.

Having visited some of the schools we have built, the director of Clymac knows what a difference can be made to the lives of school children, for a relatively modest amount by western standards... and Clymac's continued support for BSFA inspires other businesses to support us too.

Funding for three more schools from America!

This wonderfully generous donation, which resulted from the launch of the computer game Civilization V, will mean that hundreds of children in the South Region of Cameroon will be able to study in clean, hygienic classrooms this year alone ... and thousands of children will benefit in the years to come. The funds have been used to reconstruct GS Abang, GS Engomba and GS Ndengue.

Schools in the West supporting schools in Cameroon

We are really proud of all the students in the West who make such enormous efforts to help Cameroonian children get a good start in life through education.

Three very special students from the IMPACT club at Amherst Regional High School, Mass., USA (which funded the construction of GS Ber) stopped over in London as part of a tour of Europe before going off to University. We were so pleased to be able to thank them for their support in person and we are now delighted to learn that the IMPACT club is continuing its support and hopes to fund a second school in the near future.

Charlie, Nick, Marianne and Ryan meet up in London

Trip to Cameroon 2011

Nick and Nicky will be heading out to Cameroon to monitor the progress of our projects in late November 2011. They are taking a small group of supporters with them, including three members of staff from Market Makers.

The completion of a major project

The final stage of a major project in the villages of Dzeng and Bamdzeng was completed in July 2011, when the newly refurbished and re-equipped Medical Centre and the new Water Supply were formally opened. This project, which also included the construction of four large primary schools, has not only transformed the lives of all the villagers, young and old - but has also resulted in real recognition at government level for the work that SHUMAS does for the rural poor.

Medical centre with new equipment and the wind-powered pump for the water supply

THANK YOU to everyone who has promised us help in the future. We will make sure that the money you raise will help to provide a bright future for the children of Cameroon.