About Us
We are a women-led organisation. Our only job is to keep girls in school.
Hope Spring For All Nations is a Cameroon-based organization working to remove structural barriers to girls’ education by improving access to clean water, hygiene, and school retention systems.
Who We Are
Our Vision
A world where no girl is forced to miss school because of lack of water, where safe water, dignity, and learning are part of everyday life.
Our Mission
We ensure girls stay in school every day by making safe water available where they learn and live. Through practical water solutions and community-led systems, we help families protect their health and sustain safe learning environments.
Our Goal
To ensure girls in crisis-affected and underserved communities stay in school every day by making safe water available where they learn and live, while supporting families and communities to sustain safe, healthy learning environments..
Our Values
Dignity First
We believe every girl deserves to learn in an environment that is safe, healthy, and dignified. Access to water and basic needs should never stand in the way of education.
Girls at the Center
We focus on girls because they are most affected by the challenges we address. Every solution we design is built to help girls stay in school and thrive.
Practical Solutions
We focus on simple, effective solutions that can be implemented and maintained in real-world conditions.
Sustainability
We build systems that last. Our work is designed to continue making an impact long after implementation.
Community Ownership
We work with communities, not for them. We involve families, schools, and local leaders to ensure solutions are owned, managed, and sustained locally.
Safety & Protection
We are committed to creating environments where girls feel safe, protected, and supported, both in school and in their communities.
Accountability
We are committed to transparency, learning, and measuring our impact to continuously improve our work.
OUR CORE PROGRAMS
We deliver six integrated programmes, each one targeting a specific barrier between a girl and her education. They work together. A girl who has water, a private toilet, hygiene education, and a safe school environment is a girl who has everything she needs to stay.
Water Where Girls Learn
We install reliable water systems directly in schools, water stands, pipelines, boreholes, and filtration infrastructure where needed. Children stop leaving class. Girls stop being asked to choose between education and a basic daily need.
Outcome: Students stay in class. Attendance improves. Learning resumes.
Safe & Private School Toilets
We build gender-separated toilet facilities that give girls private, dignified sanitation access during the school day. This is the single most direct practical intervention for keeping girls in school during menstruation.
Outcome: Girls attend consistently, including during their periods.
Clean Hands, Healthy & Safe Schools
We install handwashing stations and embed practical hygiene education into school routines, reducing waterborne illness and building habits that protect children's health long after our project ends.
Outcome: Fewer illness-related absences. Healthier children. Lasting hygiene behaviour change.
Girls’ Health & Dignity
We provide menstrual health education and hygiene support directly in schools, reducing stigma, building awareness, and ensuring that menstruation is never again a reason a girl stops coming to class.
Outcome: Girls manage their health with knowledge and confidence. Period-related dropout decreases.
Safe Spaces for Learning
We support child-friendly, safe school environments through infrastructure improvements, child protection training, GBV awareness, and community safeguarding. Because safety is not a bonus, it is the foundation on which everything else is built. Outcome: Girls feel safe. Children learn. Communities are more protective of their schools.
Community Ownership and Sustainability
Every infrastructure project we deliver comes with a trained management committee, a maintenance plan, and follow-up visits. We do not build and disappear. We build, hand over, and return to verify that things are still working, because they need to be working in five years, not just five months.
Outcome: Systems that last. Communities that are capable, confident, and self-sufficient.
How We Make It Last
We return. After handover, HSFAN conducts follow-up visits to verify that systems are functioning and communities are managing them effectively. Where we find problems, we help solve them. Where we find community members who have gone beyond what we trained them for, we celebrate that.
Our water stand at GS Great Soppo has been serving 590 pupils consistently since construction. The benches at Government School Nsuke were formally handed over to a community-appointed management committee at a public ceremony. The community management structure we put in place continues to oversee them.
This is what sustainability looks like in practice, not a statement in a proposal, but a system of accountability that outlasts the project.
GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS
We work in Southwest Cameroon, with a primary focus on public primary and secondary schools in Meme Division, including Buea, Tiko, and Muyuka, and Manyu Division, including Tombel, Ngusi, Nsuke, Mbabe, and surrounding communities.These are places that were already structurally underserved before the Anglophone crisis. In some of the communities we work in, over half the population are internally displaced persons. Schools that should have been built to serve stable communities have instead been asked to hold children who have lost everything and need, more than anything, a place that is consistent and safe.
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We work where the gap is deepest and where the trust has been built over years of consistent presence.
TARGET POPULATION
Primary Target
Girls (ages 6–18) in public primary and secondary schools in crisis-affected and underserved communities in Southwest Cameroon.
Why: Most affected by lack of water
Leave school to fetch water
Face safety and hygiene challenges
Secondary Beneficiaries
Women, especially mothers and caregivers, in the same communities.
Why:
Manage household water and hygiene
Influence whether girls attend school
Sustain behavior and system changes
Additional Beneficiaries
Children (boys and girls) in the same schools and communities.
Why: Benefit from improved water, hygiene, and safe environments
Support overall school health
Institutional Target
Public schools and surrounding communities in rural and crisis-affected areas.
Why: Entry point for intervention
Where systems are implemented
Our Partners
HSFAN collaborates with community leaders, civil society organizations, educational institutions, and development partners.
These partnerships help expand program reach, strengthen knowledge exchange, and support sustainable development outcomes.
Partnerships also help connect communities with resources and opportunities that strengthen resilience and improve wellbeing.
Below are our Various Partners:
Alliance for women and girls [AFWAG]
MINDDEVEL
SDG
global youth connect for sustainable agriculture (GYCSA)
women empowerment and family centre
Children Educational and Empowerment Association Cameroon (CEEAC)
Global Giving
international NGO safety organization
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