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SHUMAS Cameroon, 25 Years On...

 By Hilltopvoices  Created in 1996 and recognized as an association in 1997, Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon became a full fletch Non-Governmental Organization in Cameroon following decree number 000156/A/MINAT/SG/DAP/SDLP/SONG/BA of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization at the time.  In 2013, SHUMAS gained special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and became a member of the NGO Committee on Social development with the UN on the 4th of February 2016. Mformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka, Director of SHUMAS Cameroon  With the vision “For a Just One World and Sustainable Development”, SHUMAS focuses on Humanitarian Response and Integrated Sustainable Development with the aim to improve lives, safe lives, reduce poverty and empower the most vulnerable people to realize the fullest of their potentials without limiting posterity from meeting theirs.  For over 25 years, SHUMAS has successfully c

NGOs: For Outstanding services to the Nation, NW Governor knights 12 SHUMAS Cameroon staff with 15 Labour Medals

By Bakah Derick  The Governor of the North West Region has described Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon as an examplary nongovernmental organization in Cameroon. Lele Lafrique Adolphe Tchoffo Deben was speaking in Bamenda on Tuesday 11 April 2023 during an event to award Labour Medals to  12 meritorious staff of the not-for-profit organization. He expressed the wish for organization to copy the example of SHUMAS and push the country's emergence agenda. The region's top-most administrator praised the organization for the projects realized in communities across the country. While congratulating the staff for their medals, the governor noted that it is their commitment and hard work that has earned them the recognition from the state.  North West Governor Lele Lafrique Adolphe (center in black) and other administrators with SHUMAS staff  "The award of a distinction as prestigious as a Labour Medal is obviously a special occasion to reward, encourage

IWD 2023: armed conflict rendering many in need of basics not Tech in Bamenda

By Bakah Derick  Abengetu Sheron is a single mother from the outskirts of Bali a small town on national road number six (N6) about 20Km from the North West Regional Headquarters; Bamenda. She has been displaced from her community to Bamenda by the over six year’s old armed conflict in the region with her native Bali as one of the epicenters.  Courtesy https://www.internationalwomensday.com Abengetu is attending a two-day training workshop on March 3-4, 2023 organized by the not-for-profit organization Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon with support from the World Food Programme (WFP) alongside other women drawn from different parts of the Northwest region.  The training workshop on pastries, natural juice and soya beans products Abengetu like her other sisters attending the workshop believe can be a turning point in her life that has been literally shattered by the armed conflict.  “We are being thought on how to make pastries. I am taking this very serious b

Community Development: SHUMAS Cameroon celebrates partners, staff, volunteers on Silver Jubilee

By Bakah Derick  Bamenda based not-for-profit nongovernmental organisation Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon turned 25 years old this Thursday 21 April 2022. In an outing to observe the Silver Jubilee, the Director General of SHUMAS Cameroon, Mformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka reminder the  workers, partners, supporters and stakeholders of the organisation at home and abroad of the passionate commitment conferred to them as a team to serve humanity diligently as captioned in the  vision: "for a One World and Sustainable Development."  Picture of SHUMAS Cameroon actions  "From our humble beginnings, SHUMAS has contributed enormously in development in the fields of Education, Agriculture, Humanitarian Response, Women Empowerment, Health, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Environmental Protection, Gender Based Violence and Protection, Shelter Program, Livelihood Program, Nutrition, Volunteering and Social Welfare. All these 14 programs provide eminent l

Education: SHUMAS, partner extends benevolence to Ntui-Center region

By Bakah Derick  Bamenda based not-for-profit nongovernmental organization Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon and British charity Building Schools for Africa (BSFA) UK have extended their school rehabilitation and construction benevolence to Ntui, Mbam and Kim division in the Center Region of Cameroon. The organisations on Thursday 17 February 2022 handed over three classrooms, an office, a store, a four compartment ventilated improved pit (VIP) gender segregated toilet block with hand washing facilities, 27 benches, three tables and three chairs to the administration of Government Bilingual High School (GBHS) Ntui.  The handing over took place in  the presence of the Deputy Bristish High Commissioner to Cameroon Nigel Holmes who described the long-standing relationship between SHUMAS and BSFA as impressive.  "110 schools and counting (more than 600 classrooms constructed and equipped) through a very impressive partnership between the Strateg

Humanitarian Action: SHUMAS Cameroon pulls out, empowers female IDPs from the Douala "jungle"

By Bakah Derick  Not fewer than 35 female internally displaced persons (IDPs) now based in Cameroon's economic capital city Douala as a result of the ongoing armed conflict in the North West and South West Regions now have an opportunity to earn a decent living. The IDPs found their new livelihood following the intervention of Bamenda based not-for-profit nongovernmental organisation (NGO) Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) Cameroon.  SHUMAS Cameroon Director Nformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka handing over startup assistance  Handing over financial and material support to the women and girls most of whom are single mothers on Friday 25 February 2022 in Douala, the Director General of SHUMAS Cameroon Mformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka explained why his organisation decided to intervene.   "We visited Douala and discovered that many young women and girls from the English Speaking regions displaced as a result of the ongoing crisis were living under very d

Education: SHUMAS Cameroon, partner donates to Catholic School Bayelle

By Bakah Derick  All Saints Billingual Nursery and Primary School Bayelle-Nkwen Bamenda has received a modern borehole water source and a toilet facility being a donation of Strategic Humanitarian Services SHUMAS Cameroon. The institution officially received the donation on Wednesday 2 February 2022 during an event attended by local administrative authorities, parents, members of neighbouring communities and the visibly satisfied pupils.  Nformi Ndzerem Stephen Njodzeka cutting the inaugural ribbon  The donations realised by SHUMAS Cameroon and partner Building Schools for Africa-UK have been described as timely following the increase in the number of pupils as a result of the ongoing armed conflict in the region, the covid-19 pandemic and a threatening cholera outbreak.  The Old toilet facility  According to the representatives of the school, the initial water source had become too small to meet the needs of the growing population that has gone from a previewed