OUR PROJECTS

The right to adequate health and education is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, have the physical and economic access at all times to adequate health and education or means for its procurement.

Viridiane’s Hope completes the construction of an outdoor cafeteria and six toilets in rural villages of Cameroon

In December 2025, Viridiane’s Hope completed the construction of an outdoor cafeteria to provide nutritious meals to more than 1,300 students daily at Notre Dame primary and nursery school in the village of Banka, Bafang. During a mission trip in February 2026, Viridiane’s Hope missionaries worked with the locals to finalize the construction of six toilets to improve dignity of over 300 primary school students and one furnished multipurposed room in the rural village of Nguenack, Bafang, Cameroon.

Viridiane’s Hope completes its 9th water well project powered by solar energy providing drinking water to 1,500 children and villagers in Mbeme, Cameroon

In October 2025, Viridiane’s Hope completed the drilling of a water well, construction of a water tower with a 3,000 gallon reserved tank, and a distribution point to provide drinking water to 1,500 inhabitants of the village of Mbeme in the southwest anglophone region of Cameroon. There are about 500 students attending primary and secondary schools in Mbeme. Previously, villagers relied on distant springs and shallow wells, leading to health issues like malaria and typhoid. The new solar-powered well provides reliable drinking water even without electricity. The project was funded by proceeds from a swim-a-thon event hosted by the Orange Hunt Swim and Tennis Club.

Viridiane’s Hope marks a significant milestone with the completion of the 8th drinking water well project and is now serving more than 15,000 children and families in rural Cameroon!  

Current Projects

Unforgettable Moments and Life Changing Impacts – Two solar powered water wells completed in February 2025, along with a renovation of a house of worship, and outreach to more than 2,000 youths.

During our recent mission trip to Cameroon in February 2025 , VHCHE missionaries generously donated their time and talents to work with the locals to plant crops that will be harvested to fight hunger; to build drinking water wells which provide water to children and the villagers (one of the wells was finalized a week after our return due to logistical challenges associated with coordinating the deployment of heavy equipment in a remote village); to remodel/repair a chapel to provide the villagers a safe place to worship; to visit the sick to provide comfort and most needed medication. Water well projects enable children to focus on school and learn, instead of spending their time walking long distances to collect contaminated water, which exposes them to diseases. The missionaries also empowered local youths through speaking engagements at several local elementary, secondary, and high schools, with an outreach to more than 2,000 students in several villages; they also met with a group of university students from the Central African Republic who were completing their practicum in Cameroon, and engaged in dialogue about global issues of importance to youths in need of awareness and action; they donated much needed chasubles to priests in the communities they visited, as well as clothing and food to children in orphanages; they supported Viridiane’s Hope Grief In Action initiative by donating student desks to schools in memory of the deceased of our community; they also met with religious, government, and university leaders to discuss health and education programs for youths of Cameroon. These engagements with students foster opportunities for collaboration that VHCHE provides between students in the United States and those in the communities VHCHE serves.

Drinking Water Wells for the Rural Villages of Babouantou and Bangang – Winter 2025 (Complete in February 2025)

Children and families of the rural villages of Babouantou and Bangang in the western province of Cameroon will soon have a relief with Viridiane’s Hope drinking water well projects. The villagers currently experience significant drinking water and infrastructure challenges. They rely on water from a local spring for drinking, laundry, shower, and several other house chores. Children are often exposed to waterborne diseases due to the poor quality of their source of water. Children can not learn when they do not have water to drink.

This situation will soon change, when in the winter of 2025, a group of Viridiane’s Hope missionaries will be on the ground to help drill two water wells to the two rural villages so that children and families can have clean water to drink. In August 2024, Viridiane’s Hope engineers completed hydrogeological surveys in these two villages and released reports in early September which show that drilling will be completed at depth of approximately 460 feet for a yield of about 2,500 liters/hour at each of the sites. Each water well will supplement a water tower with a 5,000 liter reserve tank which in turn will supply water to two distribution systems. Given the remoteness of these two villages, the existing electric grid is not powerful enough to supply sufficient energy for the submerged pump. These will be the first two projects where Viridiane’s Hope will use solar power for the pump, which add significant costs to our projects.

THREE DRINKING WATER WELLS PROJECTS IN THE WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN REGIONS, A PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND A PASTORAL CARE CENTER

Viridiane’s Hope Vhche partners with the Arlington Missions Office and Our Lady Of Lourdes Catholic Church in Arlington, VA to help the needy children of Cameroon. As part of the 2024 Mission Cooperative Plan, Reverend Father Maurice Akwa, Viridiane’s Hope Chaplain and Parochial Vicar of Saint Lawrence Catholic Church in Alexandria, VA, along with Reverend Father Ignatius Agure, Parochial Vicar of Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale, VA will appeal to parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes on August 10 and 11 on behalf of Viridiane’s Hope. The appeal supports Viridiane’s Hope project to build an English-speaking primary school with a clinic and computer literacy center in Cameroon to help many English-speaking families who are fleeing the war and have no local infrastructure to accommodate their learning curriculum in English. It also supports a project to build a pastoral care center in the Northwest region for victims of violence in the war, and the drilling additional drinking water wells in other villages of rural Cameroon, including in Mamfe in the Southwest region, so that children and families may have water to drink.

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DRINKING WATER FOR THE WAYUU COMMUNITIES IN LA GUAJIRA IN NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA, SOUTH AMERICA

In July 2024, Viridiane’s Hope partnered with a Virginia based nonprofit World Wise Water Systems and held a zoom call with ACOPI, a nonprofit based in Bogota, Columbia, to discuss potential collaboration for a drinking water project in the area. Columbia is currently facing significant water issues particularly plaguing indigenous Wayuu communities in La Guajira in northeastern Columbia. Viridiane’s Hope is sensitive to this water shortage and would like to help by providing the indigenous communities with one source of drinking water. This could be by drilling a water well or using other existing methods that have proven efficient and effective in the area. Viridiane’s Hope and World Wise Water Systems will continue to engage with local organizations with experience and expertise in this area to further understand the issue and explore ways of which our first project can be initiated on the ground. We’re in the data gathering stage and hope to be able to identify the most effective and cost efficient way to carry out our first project sometime in 2025 directly or through a partnership with a local nonprofit or a church.

TWO DRINKING WATER WELLS FOR CHILDREN AND THE COMMUNITIES OF BIG MANKON AND ALAKUMA, BAMENDA, CAMEROON

In May 2024, Viridiane’s Hope completed two drinking water well projects in Cameroon, this time in the war-torn areas of Bamenda, one in Big Mankon and the other in Alakuma in the northwestern region where children severely lacked access to drinking water. Since 2017, these areas have suffered the impacts of the Ambazonia war, an ongoing armed conflict in Cameroon’s English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions between Cameroon Armed Forces and Ambazonian separatist groups, where separatists calling for an independent state. Thanks to Viridiane’s Hope and all of its benefactors, these suffering children and families are blessed with two drinking water wells, each with a tower holding 3,000 gallons of drinking water in reserve. With clean drinking water, children will stay healthy enough to learn.

A DRINKING WATER WELL FOR CHILDREN AND THE ENTIRE VILLAGE OF BALEVENG, CAMEROON

In February 2024, Viridiane’s Hope completed its fourth drinking water well project in Cameroon, this time in the rural village of Baleveng in the western region where children severely lacked access to drinking water. Children were using an unhealthy spring in the area to get water to drink and for multipurpose household usages, leading to several water-related illnesses and diseases in children and the community. Thanks to Viridiane’s Hope and all of its benefactors, the children and the entire village were blessed with a drinking water well with a tower holding 2,000 gallons of drinking water in reserve. With clean drinking water, children will stay healthy enough to learn.

A DRINKING WATER WELL AND TWO TOILETS FOR DISPLACED CHILDREN IN THE VILLAGE OF YABASSI, CAMEROON

In January 2023, Viridiane’s Hope completed its third drinking water well project in Cameroon, this time in the rural village of Yabassi where war displaced children had no bathrooms to use and no water to drink. The children were using an area behind the shack to relieve themselves in the bushes during the school day. Thanks to Viridiane’s Hope, the children and the entire village were blessed with two toilets, and a drinking water well with a tower. With clean water and sanitary restrooms, children will stay healthy enough to learn.

A DRINKING WATER WELL FOR THE RURAL COMMUNITY OF ELOUMDEM, CAMEROON

In November 2022, Viridiane’s Hope completed its second drinking water well project in Cameroon, which provided drinking water to more than a thousand children and residents in the rural village of Eloumdem.

A DRINKING WATER WELL FOR THE RURAL COMMUNITY OF NEW MELONG, CAMEROON

In May 2022, Viridiane’s Hope completed two major life changing projects to support St. Anne School. (1) The drilling of a water well, installation of an electric pump, construction of a water tower with 1000 gallon reserve tank and two distribution systems with 4 faucets each. (2) The funding of 60 multi students’ work stations for six renovated classrooms.

SAINT ANNE CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, NEW MELONG – CAMEROON

In January 2022, Viridiane’s Hope completed its first major project to improve health and education environments of over 300 students at a K-6 school in New-Melong, Cameroon. Saint Anne Catholic School was created in 1965 and experienced serious infrastructure challenges, including old and collapsing school buildings, lack of school supplies, first aid room, trained nurse, and drinking water.

VHCHE grants, in five months time, have supported the construction, electrical wiring and lighting, and interior finishing of two new classrooms, an office with a rear window, a wider front sidewalk the length of the building, and two toilets.

The grants also provided for the complete renovation of two existing buildings with six classrooms.

Thanks to contributions from Virginia Knights of Columbus Councils and Assemblies, the Virginia State Council, the Mount Vernon Columbus Club, and many contributions from individual Knights and other benefactors.

Students at St. Anne’s now have access to a better facility.

Future Projects

Viridiane’s Hope remains open to undertake new projects in rural and underserved communities around the world that aligns with its mission. There is still more work ahead for VHCHE, including drilling water wells in other villages, building a school, and continuing support to the poor, the needy, and the outcast, especially children in rural and underserved communities, with health and education initiatives. Based on the experience from the recent mission trip to Cameroon, acquiring a vehicle, especially a pickup truck is essential and crucial to help transport equipment and personnel to perform the work on the ground. Ownership of drilling equipment would also be instrumental to provide seamless continuation of our water well drilling and will allow us to reach many more underserved communities and villages, thus providing easy access to this resource for which children and families must significantly endure daily and will improve their overall health and education.

ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS AT SAINT ANNE SCHOOL, NEW MELONG – CAMEROON

An additional two-story building for the English section with 6 classrooms, one library, one nurse room, and two toilets. 

A computer room to allow for student’s training in basic computer skills.

ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Support orphanages with food and other infrastructure improvements.

Support pediatric departments of the local hospitals.

Computer literacy