Gloz, Marje and I have just returned from a trip to The Gambia. We had a wonderful time, and achieved quite a lot in the time we had. The compound in Busumbala is well on the way to be habitable, the ceilings done, floors tiled, doors and windows in, hopefully it wont be long now till Sankung and his family are able to move in. We met quite a few of our older students who are in further education, and all seem happy and well. We intend to send out updates of our all our students to their sponsors in the next few weeks. We are providing further excercise books to Toniataba and Fonkoi Kunda schools to see them through to the end of the school year. While we were in Si-Kunda we had the well pump repaired, it had become very difficult to draw up water, so need some replacement parts. The workshop is being managed by Syah, and they need some sewing needles, both hand and Singer machine, also some very thin (ideally cotton) materials to practice their 'cutting out' skills with and basic sewing for those wishing to learn. If anyone can help we would be very grateful! There are currently 88 children registered at the Sikunda Nursery School, they would like some new toys, but nothing to bulky that would be difficult and expensive to send by shipment. We always need pencils and colouring pencils, rulers, erasors, biros and excercise books for the schools we support if anyone has any spare? We managed to get to the Independence Day celebrations in Banjul stadium. The first time any of us has been and we were very glad we went, it was the 48th year celebration of Independence. It was quite an event with the military, schools and cultural groups all represented. The Gambian president was present, also a few other African leaders. I do realise that the website really does need updating, and that is on the list of things to do, so watch this space. Many thanks to all our supporters, and the Bonus Ball continues to roll on which really does help with our revenue. Sue
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