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SHUMAS promotes integrated sustainable rural development and is active in agriculture and women's empowerment, health care, environmental management and protection, primary schooling, adult literacy and many other areas.........
Our aim is to improve the overall living standards of less privileged people, particularly women and children in rural areas of the North West Province of Cameroon.
Based in Bamenda, we work to reduce poverty and empower vulnerable groups irrespective of gender, status or tribe. We want to achieve these goals without exerting stress on the environment.
SHUMAS has a democratic structure comprising a
General Assembly, an Advisory Council and a Management Committee.
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Additionally, we value support from over 50
volunteers, both in Cameroon and abroad who give services and
technical expertise free of charge, We also work with partner NGOs
and the Cameroon Government.
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Poor peasant farmers who form the majority of the population, face problems of high input and get less output from their farms due to poor soil quality. Thus they remain in a vicious cycle of poverty.
Eucalyptus planted by early missionaries was a
disaster, occupying and draining cultivable lands and watersheds. In 2000 the Eucalytus Replacement Project was designed to resolve this. Project implementation began in 2000 and completion is scheduled for 2009. This project will help free up land for cultivation, soil regeneration and increase potable water supply to poor rural communities.
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We need to help relieve poverty with sustainable
activities in the Northern Sahelian Region. The Diocese of
Yagoua, Local Authorities and the Tertiary Sisters of St Francis
plus volunteers work as our partners to improve the lives of 3
million people in this region.
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Our Social Welfare programmes cover projects with
mentally disabled people and leprosy victims who are often
shunned by society, and are left fending for themselves with
little or no support from the wider community.
SHUMAS aims to give physical and educational help (training in self-reliance activities) as well as to
work to change attitudes in society.
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An exciting project still in design stage is to create Ethnobotanic Gardens in schools and communities in the various ecological regions of Cameroon. The aim is to promote ethno botany and create a mechanism for collaboration and networking between communities. The project has many potential medical benefits.
Please now go to our Programme pages to learn more about our work.
