My S ite - SHUMAS - 'Give a coin to save a soul'
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Supplying clean drinking water
In 2011 seven communities benefited from a SHUMAS water project, which provided them with potable water ensuring improved health, hygiene, and sanitation.
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Nurse in training
SHUMAS has sponsored the training of individuals from less priviledged backgrounds. In the past year 21 student have graduated.
Newly constructed toilet at Bilingue School
Last year SHUMAS helped disadvantaged children access education by constructing 48 classrooms in 16 schools. We provided 432 benches, 48 tables, 48 chairs, 16 toilets.
School garden at Bilingue School
SHUMAS enhances environmental awareness, builds pupils' life skills, and enables schools to boost their income by introducing a functional School Environmental Program into each school we constructed.
Training in Sustainable Agriculture
SHUMAS provided poor locals with 10 months of professional training in integrated sustainable agriculture at our Biofarm in 2011.
Organic Maize
In 2011 SHUMAS offered 300 peasant farmers short courses on sustainable and organic farming techniques.
Wind Power
At our Biofarm we offer training on the use of clean energy, including using wind turbines, biogas and solar power.
Improving health in rural communities.
SHUMAS water and sanitation projects strive to reduce the incidence of water borne diseases in rural communities.
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Bringing people with disabilities back into the community.
SHUMAS provides intensive rehabilitation and training for people with physical and mental disabilities at our Rehabilitation centre. In 2011 ten trainees graduated from our two year program and were provided with materials and support to start their own small businesses.
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GBSS MBEUNKONG NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BY SHUMAS
Another school constructed by the AIDCAMP volunteers, which has boosted the enrolment and improved on the level of literacy in this community in Cameroon.
Our Vision
A society where everyone, especially the most marginalised, is empowered economically, culturally, and socially, with equal opportunity capable of enhancing them and exploiting their fullest potentials.
Our Mission Statement
We strive to improve lives, reduce poverty and empower people so that they can meet their own needs, without compromising posterity.
How We Help
We help struggling rural communities with an integrated approach to development. We make a real difference with what matters most locally, reducing poverty and improving lives. We believe strongly in a participatory approach and empowering communities to help themselves so they can take full ownership of the project after our intervention.
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How You Can Help
There are many ways you can get involved in our programs and make a real differnce too. You could offer your expertise in a volunteer placement, donate to support our programs, sponsor a project, or become a member.
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Welcome to SHUMAS
Strategic Humanitarian Services (SHUMAS) is a non-governmental development organisation. Our head office is in Nkwen, Bamenda, Cameroon. Our programs reach into eight of Cameroon's ten regions.
We started as an informal initiative in 1993, helping to educate deprived children who had been pushed into a premature adulthood. By June 1996 we formalised our activities focused on enhancing and promoting sustainable rural development and assisting urban poor. In 1997 SHUMAS was legalised as a charity.
Over the years SHUMAS has gradually proven that an African NGO can be trusted. We have done this by implementing our projects and programs according to set objectives, achieving concrete results, and within a given financial constraints and a specified time frame, to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.