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 |
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.
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