By Bakah Derick
Bamenda based not-for-profit nongovernmental organization Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon and British charity Building Schools for Africa (BSFA) UK have extended their school rehabilitation and construction benevolence to Ntui, Mbam and Kim division in the Center Region of Cameroon.
The organisations on Thursday 17 February 2022 handed over three classrooms, an office, a store, a four compartment ventilated improved pit (VIP) gender segregated toilet block with hand washing facilities, 27 benches, three tables and three chairs to the administration of Government Bilingual High School (GBHS) Ntui.
The handing over took place in the presence of the Deputy Bristish High Commissioner to Cameroon Nigel Holmes who described the long-standing relationship between SHUMAS and BSFA as impressive.
"110 schools and counting (more than 600 classrooms constructed and equipped) through a very impressive partnership between the Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) and Building Schools for Africa (BSFA) a small UK based charity which places great trust in SHUMAS. I would love to celebrate the relationship between SHUMAS and BSFA. SHUMAS has done a great job and is a great model on how to do development in Cameroon and I would like to see this happen more and more" The deputy commissioner said
Addressing the gathering that featured top administrative and political authorities of the community, the Director General of SHUMAS Cameroon Mformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka emphasised his organisation's commitment and engagement in the improvement of the teaching and learning process in the country. He indicated that added to the above items donated to the school that hitherto suffered from acute infrastructural issues, his organisation and partner have also ensured the training of the school health, water and sanitation club and also provided COVID-19 prevention material.
Speaking during separate interventions, the Mayor, Senator and parliamentarian representing the political class of the area showered SHUMAS Cameroon and partner with praises for making their school a priority project. According to them, building schools is the only way to guarantee development and a political future for Ntui. They assured the donors of their commitment to ensure the facility is well protected and catered for.
The School authorities, the Senior Divisional Officer and the representative of the Minister of Secondary Education all expressed gratitude to SHUMAS Cameroon and BSFA for accompanying government in her vision to provide education to as many Cameroonians as possible irrespective of their location.
Created in 2005, GBHS Ntui has been reputed for poor and insufficient infrastructure. With the exudos caused by the ongoing armed conflict in the North West and South West Regions, the school has witnessed an increase making the accommodation challenge worst. With the donations, it is hoped that not only will children from Ntui have a more comfortable environment for learning, so too will the internally displaced find a conducive place for studies in Ntui.
tarted in 1993, SHUMAS Cameroon is a development Non Governmental Organization focused on integrated sustainable rural development. Legalised in 1997, SHUMAS in 2013 was granted the status of a Non Governmental Organisation. The Bamenda headquartered charity currently has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
The organisation works in the areas of health, education, water and sanitation, social welfare, environmental protection and management, women empowerment, agriculture and volunteering. To benefit from their projects, the need must be expressed by the community after which she establishes the degree of need and decides in a nondiscriminatory manner to fund.