Volunteering with AidCamps International

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AidCamps International has been working with SHUMAS, building rural primary schools, since 2003. Each November, 15 volunteers and a group leader travel to Bamenda in NW Province, to meet and work with the team at SHUMAS.

They spend three weeks working on the school building which their donations have funded. The school building is constructed to ‘four walls and a roof’ standard – and the volunteers help to plaster and paint it, fit the doors and windows and construct a toilet block. The experience is enhanced by the fact that the volunteers live together in the village where the school is being constructed: they become part of the community.

Groups of AidCamps International volunteers, in partnership with SHUMAS, have now funded and built 5 rural primary schools in Bangwe, Mbokui, Mogni, Bamali and Tsenka. The building of such good quality, long lasting schools in the poor rural villages improves the lives of literally thousands of children.

AidCamps International also offers opportunities for individual volunteer placements.

 

Visit the AidCamps International website (www.aidcamps.org ) for full details of future projects in Cameroon.

Visit the SHUMAS website (www.shumas-cameroon.org ) for full details of the work undertaken by this very special NGO.

 

 

“The ultimate in ‘green’ tourism. Leave behind a footprint of opportunity – Education! Expand your cultural understanding and be humbled” Lesley Player, volunteer 2006

“SHUMAS and AidCamps, you have made a people whose voices could never be heard in terms of education somewhere, to speak proudly everywhere." (Chair of PTA at Mogni Primary School)

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 April 2008 )