About Us
Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS), is a Development and Humanitarian not for profit Non-Governmental Organization with its head office located at Mile Six Nkwen, Bamenda. SHUMAS was recognized as an Association in 1997 per the 1990 law of association under authorization number 1082/E.29/IIII/VI.7/APPB. In 2013, SHUMAS was recognized as a Non-Governmental Organization by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization under decree number 00000196/A/MINATD/SG/DAP/SDLP/SONG which made her upgrade from solely development interventions to embracing both humanitarian and development intervention. SHUMAS is an organization in special consultation status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2013 and equally a member of the NGO Committee on Social development with the UN since the 4th of February 2016. Her status as an NGO was later on renewed to registration number 000156/O/MINAT/SG/DAP/SDLP/SONG/BA on the 7th of May, 2020.
Through her vision “for a Just One World and Sustainable Development”, SHUMAS focuses on Integrated Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Response with the aim to protect lives, ensure wellbeing, reduce poverty and empower target populations to realize the fullest of their potentials without limiting posterity from meeting theirs. To achieve this, SHUMAS has specialized programs under her 2 main axes of intervention; Development interventions (Education, Environment, Health, Agriculture, Shelter, Water and Sanitation, Social Welfare, Volunteering and Women Empowerment) and Humanitarian response (Education in Emergency, Food security and Livelihood, Protection, Health, Nutrition, Shelter and NFIs). All of this is achieved following the intergrated, participatory and holistic approach.
i) MISSION STATEMENT
Improve lives, reduce poverty and build the productive capacity of disadvantaged people to meet their needs without compromising posterity from meeting theirs.
ii) OBJECTIVES
1) Enable vulnerable communities in Cameroon to have access to equitable, inclusive education and sustainable learning opportunities.
2) Promote sustainable food production systems and progressively improve land and soil quality.
3) Improve rural and poor urban community health.
4) Enhance the productive capacity of poor urban and rural women through a series of interventions.
5) Contribute towards environmental sustainability.
6) Provide volunteering opportunities for national and international university graduates and professionals.
7) Empowerment of persons with physical disabilities (socio economic and psychological).
8) Provide Humanitarian Assistance in communities affected by natural disaster /political crisis.
9) Ensure availability of potable water and it’s sustainable management .
10) Foster partnership through collaboration, networking with International Organizations, Government departments, local councils and Community Organizations.
iii) SHUMAS INTERVENTION APPROACH
Participatory: We involve benefiting communities at all stages of the project so that they can gain full ownership of our interventions.
Holistic Approach: SHUMAS uses a holistic approach in all her projects to ensure a meaningful change.
Integrated: SHUMAS strongly believes that, isolated actions cannot lead to any meaningful development in a community. In consequence, she adopts an integrated rural development approach which is realized through her 2 main axes of intervention.
iv) MAJOR AXES OF INTERVENTION
(a) Humanitarian Response programs.
- Food security/livelihood
- WASH
- Protection
- Shelter
- Health
- Nutrition
- Education in Emergency
(b) Development Intervention Programs.
- Education
- Water and Sanitation
- Agriculture
- Women Empowerment
- Social Welfare
- Environment
- Health
- Volunteering