Developing Under-Privileged Communities:

British Envoy Praises SHUMAS and Partners for Impacting Lives

By Njodzefe Nestor in Bafia

Handing over of Borehole at EP Kalong

The British High Commissioner to Cameroon Rowan Laxton has expressed satisfaction to endeavors made by Strategic Humanitarian Services, SHUMAS, Cameroon in fostering development and her fruitful partnership with United Kingdom Charities with whom SHUMAS has been working with over the years in building schools for underprivileged communities in Cameroon.

                The British Diplomat made the appreciation during the handing over of 3 newly constructed classrooms, 1 office and store, 27 benches, 3 tables and a toilet block of three compartment and provision of hand washing facilities to Ecole Publique Bape Mondial and a borehole to Ecole Publique Kalong in KomYabetta sub division, Mbam and Inoubou Division of the Centre region by SHUMAS.

                The project started in 2016 was handed over on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 and before the intervention of SHUMAS and her partners, the school had only a thatched building which made the teaching learning process difficult especially during rainy seasons.

                Commissioner Rowan Laxton particularly thanked Building Schools of Africa represented in the event by Marianne Johnson and the UK SUNESIS building company represented by a powerful team of seven officials for sponsoring the project and SHUMAS likewise the Kom Yabetta population for effectively executing the project.

               

New structure of School

Speaking at the highly attended ceremony, the SDO for Mbam and Inoubou Division, the Mayor of KomYabetta, the Head Teachers of EP Bape Mondial and EP Kalong and many other speakers who took turns to speak were unanimous that the timely intervention of SHUMAS and her partners was a stitch in time to salvage the school from its sorry state.

                It was a jubilant population of Kom Yabetta who turned out in their numbers and in song and dance to receive what many termed an early Christmas gift.

                While officially handing over the classrooms, the Director General of SHUMAS, Nformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka particularly thanked Building Schools for Africa and the Sunesis Company for coming to see for themselves the completed the project.

                Nformi Ndzerem Stephen was principally grateful to the British High Commissioner for the partnership between SHUMAS and British Charities especially Building schools for Africa, which he said has been instrumental to their achievements.

                The SHUMAS Director observed that the school infrastructures are only as valuable as the commitment they all make, to taking responsibility for their 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 added.

It is worth noting that SHUMAS has constructed and rehabilitated more than 800 classrooms equipped with benches, tables, and chairs as well as toilets blocks with hand washing facilities.

                Over 50 schools engaged in the School Environmental Garden Project aimed at inculcating values of environmental management and protection in pupils and students and more than 1000 children have been sponsored under the SHUMAS scholarship scheme. SHUMAS has equally provided potable water to more than 50 schools through, water by gravity, boreholes or protected wells for improved hygiene and sanitation in the different schools.