The St. Anne School in New Melong, Cameroon, provides pastoral and education services to a large and expanding multilingual population of local French-speaking citizens and refugees seeking to escape the dangers of civil unrest and armed conflict in adjacent English-speaking provinces of Cameroon. This new educational building will relieve classroom overcrowding and allow the school to add a full K-6 curriculum in English to its current French curriculum. This expansion will help accommodate the growing influx of predominantly English- speaking refugee children fleeing the areas of conflict. Outside of school hours and during the summer, the new building will be used to host organized youth camps and vocation camps sponsored by the diocese of Nkongsamba.

Melong is primarily an agricultural area that relies upon the production of coffee and banana to support the local economy. Currently the area is economically depressed due to civil unrest in the northwestern and southwestern parts of the country, and many families and children from that region are seeking refuge in other localities, including Melong. This heavy influx of migrants is causing more economic stress in prominently in rural communities like Melong.

New Melong is one of the newest communities in Melong, comprised of four districts with a total population of approximately 4,300 people. In the pastoral territory of New Melong, there are two lay private colleges, both offering general education. There are also two elementary schools: a Government Nursery and Primary School New Melong and the Saint Anne Catholic Primary School New Melong.

Saint Anne Catholic Primary School of New Melong was established in 1965. It has an enrollment of over 350 pupils. Saint Anne has suffered from a serious lack of infrastructure including degraded roads, lack of clean drinking water, old and collapsing school buildings, inadequate number and poor quality of chairs and tables in classrooms, overused blackboards, insufficient textbooks, a lack of equipped first aid room or trained nurse, and insufficient training for staff. Additionally, the kindergarten classroom is currently overcrowded as it houses upwards of two classrooms for children in the same area, just about 90 students.  A project for the construction of two more classrooms was initiated by the faithful of the parish but due to lack of funding the building site was abandoned. However, in 2023 VHCHE, a US-based nonprofit organization run by a Cameroonian native, was able to address this immediate problem by financing and supervising the construction of two new classrooms at St. Ann's.  

It is apparent from the increasing arrival of English-speaking refugee families in New Melong that this additional six-classroom building with a nursing station and computer center is necessary.