Sankung and Oumie's Garden Party

We will very soon be sending out flyers to all our supporters to invite you to our fund raising Garden Party, to take place on May 19th, 2pm till late, at Monks Risborough. Our very special guests of honour are going to be our Charity Project Manager from The Gambia, Sankung Jammeh and his lovely wife Oumie. More details to follow, but we will be having refreshments all day - Barbeque, Gambian dishes to sample, Auction, Live music, Raffle, lots of stalls, bouncy castle, lots going on, but also places to just sit and relax in beautiful surroundings. This is Sankung and Oumie's first visit to England, and we would like to invite you to meet them and help make their trip a lifetime experience to be remembered always! Watch this space! You can if you wish contact me for details.............sjones@friendsofsikunda.org

February 2012 Trip

Anne, Matt, Gloz, Richard and I were in Gambia in February. We had a great time, and also achieved just about all we wanted to do on this trip, which is a miracle in itself! The Busumbala compound now has a roof, and lots of work put in by Matt and Yaya to make sure it was done so well. The ceilings will be put up this week by Yaya and his team. The Sikunda Village School has been painted inside and out, plus all the furniture has had attention to make sure it is all as it should be and the Community and Skills Centre has been given a paint job outside so it looks very smart! All the windows have been completed in Toniataba School and we have provided some dustbins for their clean campaign at the school. We had a meeting with the Gambia Red Cross Secretary General at the headquarters as we work quite closely with the Lower River Division Branch of the Red Cross in trying to help as much as we can. Richard worked at Pakalinding School in the computer lab with Kim a Peace Corp volunteer, in setting up new virus checking and rebuilding pc's where needed, etc., All this was done and so much more, we will be updating the projects section of this website as soon as we can. Our bonus ball is into its next session, we are so pleased to see that continue. We have just given a presentation to the Rotary Club of Bletchley this week, and had a very enjoyable lunch with them, we were presented with a wonderful donation and boxes of supplies for our shipment, we are so very grateful to them for supporting us for so many years. We have many wonderful supporters and thank you all! More updates to come..... Sue