Comments on: A Gambia School Visit

By: Kathryn Burrington

Kathryn Burrington — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:42:24 +0000

Dear Ann,
That’s wonderful ! It is particularly heart warming when you hear of the generosity of a young child like this.
Regarding sponsorship I would always suggest that people sponsor children through an existing charity such as:
FoTGA http://fotga.org.uk/page9.html
where you can select a child from a short list,
Plan http://www.plan-uk.org/
or Gam-BLE http://www.gam-ble.co.uk/
where you can sponsor a teacher rather than a child

Has any one else any experience of sponsoring a child directly?

Well done, Ann, and all the best for the future. We’d love to hear how you get on. I hope you have a wonderful experience.
Kathryn

By: Ann Breheney

Ann Breheney — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:40:52 +0000

Hi I’m going to The Gambia next Wednesday 18th jan 2012 to support the work of a newly formed Irish charity GIVE( Gambia, Ireland, Voluntary education) Most of the 18 people are retired Irish Teachers and it was by chance that as I was travelling for a weeks holiday to The gambia last february that I was sat next to the Charity Founder on the plane and we struck up a conversation about teaching and schools in the Gambia. I expressed my interest in his work and i am so looking forward to the 6 week experience. I am humbled by the generosity of our schools population as they have raised 400 pounds so that we can sponsor 2 childrens education and strike up a link with them so that our children can begin to understand the lives and experiences of children in a 3rd world country.One little 6yr old brought me 11 pounds that he had saved from his Eid money! I was wondering if anyone has any information on how sponsorhip works. i don’t really want to go through a charity for this as I would like to select the children myself when I am there.

By: Denver Stvictor

Denver Stvictor — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:02:43 +0000

tnanks alot

By: Kathryn Burrington

Kathryn Burrington — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:54:02 +0000

Hi David, Footballs are always popular! Other ideas are chalk, skipping ropes, pencils, exercise books, plain paper, flip-flops are useful too. Avoid things like felt tip pens that dry out easily. I’m sure you wouldn’t but I’d just like to remind people that you should never hand things out from vehicles as this encourages the children to chase them and can be very dangerous.
Hope that helps, Kathryn

By: David Netherway & Family

David Netherway & Family — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:23:32 +0000

Hi, we are visiting Gambia in December and each of us will pack 5kg of gifts for children of Gambia ( 6 in family so 30 kgs in total) can you advise us whats best to bring for school children/infants etc?

We will also pack lots of small treats.

Thank you.

David

By: Mary Ann Luciano

Mary Ann Luciano — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:53:40 +0000

If you want to help out in a new school for girls, go to Starfishinternational.org to connect with my friend Mam Yassin Sarr

By: sana cham

sana cham — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:19:21 +0000

Hi publishers,
Am a borned and bred up Gambian.Schooled by action aid the gambia-a uk ngo, taught as a qualified primary school teacher for 5years in gambia.currently in portugal learning portugues, already learnt deutch in austria.
my dream is to go back home and open an education centre including nursery and adult education in my little new residence at gunjur sambuyang by end of 2011.yet, we looking for partners in edu… development materials.
Upon my travelled,i’ve witness a lot of obstacles encountered by young gambians who have travel abroad due to language barriers, reaading,writing,etc.
as a young teacher, i would be please with whoever can lead my dreams go true in any kind links for educational development. we are recently working on our web site which will be soon open to public.
Kind gesture to all of your services done and doing in OUR LITTLE GAMBIA.
Big thanks

By: Making a difference | The Gambia Blog

Making a difference | The Gambia Blog — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:04:07 +0000

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By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:34:52 +0000

Reply to school twinning and volunteering:

I believe the best way to arrange twinning with a school is through The Ministry of Education. We are currently looking in to getting the full details for this so that we can pass in the information to anyone who is interested. I’m afraid I do not have an email address or contact number but the postal address is:
Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education
Willythorpe Place Building
Banjul
website: http://www.edugambia.gm

Regarding volunteering in schools I suggest people contacting the VSO in The Gambia.

http://www.vso.org.uk/where-we-work/the-gambia.asp

I hope that is of help and please do let us know how you get on.
Kathryn

By: maxine

maxine — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:37:04 +0000

I am going to visit gambia in december and as a teacher I am hoping to get my students to donate things for me to take over to one of the schools. I would really like to make contact with a school so that I can give my students more information about what they need and to encourage them to become more interested in fundraising. Are there any schools out there who would like to make some links with a school in England?