Education

Background
Our society is heavily stratified in such a way that some communities and individuals do not have equal opportunities to education, and some are completely left out. Others receive mediocre educational services and facilities, thus hindering them from many opportunities in life. One of the factors hindering effective learning in schools is overcrowding. Additionally, there is a high prevalence of waterborne diseases in schools and other problems, such as defecating in the school vicinity due to lack of toilet facilities, which generally lead to many diseases.

Intervention Strategy
To address these issues and achieve its objective of universal education for all, SHUMAS undertakes the following initiatives:

i. Improving school infrastructure through the construction of classrooms, rehabilitation, and equipping of dilapidated structures, and the construction of modern toilet blocks and stores.

ii. Providing scholarships to underprivileged children at the nursery, primary, and higher education levels, who, without scholarships, would drop out of schools.

iii. Inculcating values of environmental management in pupils and students through practical training on organic farming and tree planting techniques, and the provision of equipment for school gardens and farms.

iv. Improving WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) in schools by providing portable water, hand-washing facilities, and drinking pails.

Objective
Improve access to inclusive and equitable education through the construction, rehabilitation, and equipping of dilapidated educational structures and the provision of scholarships to underprivileged pupils/students in areas of dire need.

Achievements
Our commitment to improve access to inclusive and equitable quality education is evident in the tangible impact we have created across Cameroon with the following:

• Constructed and rehabilitated more than 1000 classrooms equipped with over 27,000 benches and 500 tables.
• Constructed over 315 gender-segregated toilet blocks with handwashing facilities that have benefitted 94,500 pupils/students all over Cameroon.
• Engaged over 50 schools in the School Environmental Garden Project aimed at inculcating values of environmental management and protection in pupils and students.
• Sponsored more than 1000 children under the SHUMAS scholarship scheme.
  Provided potable water to more than 40 schools through water by gravity and boreholes for improved hygiene and sanitation.
• Constructed, rehabilitated, and equipped 10 science laboratories.

Challenges Faced

• Limited available resources.
• Very bad roads, hence high transport fares, as well as the cost of transporting construction materials to the project sites.

GALLERY

 

(Provision of Benches and handwashing equipment)

 

(Gender segregated toilet constructed)

 

(Refurbished and equipped science laboratory of All Saints Catholic College Beyelle)

 

(Classrooms, benches and chairs donated to ST Paul Nursery and Primary School Ntahkekah)

 

(The Director of SHUMAS, his entourage with the pupils and teachers at ST Paul primary school Ntahkekah)

 

(Cutting of the ribbon by the Divisional Officer for Bamenda III)

 

(SHUMAS Directo handing over keys of classrooms to the school proprietor)