The British Minister of State for Africa, Harriet Baldwin has expressed satisfaction to endeavors made by Strategic Humanitarian Services, SHUMAS Cameroon in fostering sustainable rural development and her fruitful partnership with United Kingdom Charities with whom SHUMAS has been working with over the years.
She made the appreciation Wednesday February 14, in Sodiko, a locality in Douala IV sub division, Wouri Division of the Littoral Region while on a tour to do an appraisal of the impact of work of UK Charities who have been partnering with SHUMAS.
Accompanied
by the British High Commissioner to Cameroon Rowan Laxton, the British Minister
of State for Africa visited an ultra-modern laboratory with state of the art
equipment worth over FCFA 35 million at Government Bilingual High School Sodiko
which was realized and handed over by SHUMAS and Building Schools for Africa, a
UK Charity that has partnered with SHUMAS over the years to build schools in
Cameroon.
It is worth
mentioning that SHUMAS has over the years worked in close partnership with UK
Charities and NGOs such as Aid Camps International, Spreading health UK, Future
in Our Hands, UK, Building Schools for Africa, amongst others with whom they
have achieved life changing results.
Harriet
Baldwin and Rowan Laxton were briefed by the Programs Coordinator of SHUMAS,
Mme Nyuykighan Billian on the areas that SHUMAS intervenes in, the various UK
Charities that SHUMAS works with and a brief balance sheet of results attained
so far much to the satisfaction of the duo.
They were
guided around the laboratory project of GBHS Sodiko by the Programs Coordinator
of SHUMAS who explained the details of the project and the mode of
implementation.
On site to
welcome the British Minister of State for Africa and the British High
Commissioner were the officials and students of GBHS Sodiko, the Chief of
Sodiko, Elites, cross section of the Sodiko population and SHUMAS staff.
Harriet Baldwin and Rowan Laxton also received gifts from the population handed
over by the Chief of Sodiko.
SHUMAS is a
Developmental Non-Governmental Organization that focuses on integrated
sustainable rural development and aims to improve lives, reduce poverty, and
empower people to meet their needs without compromising the needs of posterity.
The
organization was legalized in 1997 as an association and subsequently as an NGO
per the decision of the Ministry of Territorial Administration in the
2013. SHUMAS also holds a special consultative status with the UnitedNations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2013.
SHUMAS
activities cover the national territory of Cameroon and targets rural as well
as urban poor communities. SHUMAS strongly believes on impacts of integrated
development activities for communities, instead of isolated actions that might
have no meaningful results.
To achieve
this SHUMAS has eight interconnected axes of intervention namely; health, water
and sanitation, social welfare, environmental protection and management, women
empowerment, agriculture, volunteering and education.
In all these
areas, SHUMAS works towards the achievement of the Cameroon Government’s Growth
and Employment Strategy of making Cameroon an emerging country by 2035 through
infrastructural and human development.
First published by The Focus Online
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