Mosquito nets

I am very happy to report that every Scout family in Sanyang now has a large treated mosquito net. That is 125 families! Almost all of the donations have come from 5th Sunbury Scout Troop. Well done to everyone! Very important preventative measure, especially this time of the year. Most families sleep in the same bed so I would estimate at least 500 people are now sleeping safer at night!

Basori prizegiving

Many thanks to everyone who provided gifts for the prizes. Every child received a prize with those who did well in their exams get special prizes. It was a great day even if it was total chaos!! The children and their parents were so happy. Many parents turned up and it was lovely to see so many people there. Most of the nursery 3 children are leaving now to go to the primary school and many of them have been there since the beginning so it will be hard to say goodbye. Many speeches were made and I reproduce below a transcript of the Headteachers speech.

"Since the beginning of the academic year 2010/11 the schoo has registered a giant stride in acquiring a series of supplies from GOAL For The Gambia, a non profit making charitably organisation through our able philanthropist and Executive Director Khadijatou Sandy Sanyang. These supplies included school uniforms, exercise books, reading books, notebooks, pens, colouring pencils, erasers and sharpeners, footballs, tennis balls, boxes of chalks, toothpaste and brushes for hygiene, first aid box and even a First Aid training course during which eleven people across the underprivileged benefited i.e. the poor villages or community.

The organisation further provided the school, with teachers and paying salaries and also maintaining a cleaner by a salary. The same organisation sponsored a toilet facility worth over D25,000 (twenty five thousand dalasis) in January this year. It is currently making cement blocks for the preparation of erecting a wall around the school premises in order to protect the children and others from passing vehicles and uncontrolled animals.

In a related development, the management and staff wish to inform the general public that 25 pupils have graduated this year and are to transfer to the Lower Basic School come September 11th 2011.

On that note the school management, the school committee, members, parents of the pupils and the Mayor wish to commend Khadijatou Sandy Sanyang, her Gambian counterparts and GOAL For The Gambia for a job well done"

Thanks from me goes to everyone who is supporting us, we could not do it without you