Promoting Teaching of Science &Technology:

SHUMAS Donates 35m-worth Lab. to GBHS Sodiko

By Njodzefe Nestor in Bamenda

Outside view of the lab

Strategic Humanitarian Services SHUMAS-Cameroon has handed over an ultra-modern well laboratory with state of the art equipment worth over FCFA 35 million to Government Bilingual High School Sodiko located in Douala IV sub division, Wouri Division of the Littoral Region.

            It was a jubilant population of Sodiko community that turned out in their numbers and in song and dance to receive what many termed a timely intervention for the science students of the school who before now had difficulties running their practical sessions.

            The lack of a science laboratory did not only weaken the chances of students to pass their end of year and course exams, but also limited them to pursue their carrier goals in science related fields.

            The laboratory was handed on to the school on Febraury 8, 2018 in a colourful ceremony presided at by the Divisional Officer of Douala IV. Also present were the traditional leaders from the Littoral, North West, South West and Benin Republic likewise the educational family of Douala IV.

           

Officials in the lab

This project was achieved by SHUMAS in partnership with her age long partner Building Schools for Africa and the community of Sodiko through the SHUMAS participatory approach to rural and urban poor development.

            In different addresses, the Divisional Officer of Douala IV, the Principal of GBHS Sodiko, the President of Parent Teachers Association just like the representative of the students thanked SHUMAS for thinking about them.

            “This remarkable success which we are celebrating today is eloquent testimony of the partnership between communities, NGOs and the government aimed at making Cameroon an emerging economy by 2035” observed Njatombi Mayibi Oscar, PTA president of GBHS Sodiko.

            Speaking during the ceremony, the Director General of SHUMAS, Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka appreciated some elites and people in the Sodiko Community for their participation and collaboration during the implementation of the project.

            “These school infrastructures and equipment are only as valuable as the commitment we all make, to taking responsibility for our actions and attitudes to promoting quality education. I want to call on the entire community to carefully and seriously protect these facilities so that many generations of children and their families can benefit from them” he advised.

            In appreciation for their humanitarian work throughout the National territory in general and Sodiko in particular, the Director General of SHUMAS, Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka was conferred a traditional title (Elolombe of Sadiko Village).

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Outside view of the lab