Gifts to Share.....

These are Gift Donations with three designs to choose from!

Very often it is difficult to find that unusual gift, so perhaps we have found the answer for you!

No.1

No.2

No. 3

All you need to do is :

a)       Choose your card from one of the designs shown  

b)       Choose where your donation gift is to go from the descriptions below

c)       State the amount you wish to give as a donation gift to your friend or relative for Christmas

d)       Send all these details plus a cheque for the amount to us, Friends of Si-Kunda,  3 Moorlands Road, Wing, Nr. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU70RD

The description will be in the card, and will show the amount gifted. You will then receive this Gift card with free P&P for you to then pass on as a Christmas Gift.

 Donation Descriptions

1.To help with the shipment costs of sending vital supplies to the schools and hospital we support in  Lower River Division, The Gambia, West Africa.

2.This gift will help to supply new windows in three classrooms at Toniataba School, making the classrooms much lighter and also providing the ventilation needed to make these classrooms so much more comfortable in the hot and humid weather.

3.  This gift will provide a sack of rice to supplement the rice supply for Si-Kunda Nursery School, where there are 80 children relying on the school daily for their lunch!    - (this gift is £10 for a sack)

4. This gift will provide 4 exercise books for every pound, and will be given to children attending local schools in the Si-Kunda region. 

An example of what you might expect inside the card -

If you wish to purchase one of these Gift Share cards, please make cheques payable

to 'Friends of Si-Kunda Charity'

Many thanks

Christmas Cards for Sale!

We now have four designs of Christmas Cards to choose from.  All proceeds will help to pay for the new roof on the Busumbala compound -

No.1.  The Robin   -  from original painting by Marje Jones

No.2.  Walk to Church  -   from original painting by Marje Jones

No.3.  A Winter Scene  -  from original painting by Doreen Wright

No.4.  Yfelin, North Wales -  photographed by Richard Colville

Inside each card has the wording –

       

     Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 

No 1. The Robin

No2. Walk to Church

No.3  A Winter Scene

These cards are £3.50 for 5,
or £6.50 for 10, including postage

No.4 Yfelin

If you wish to order a selection, 
please send your request 
plus payment to -

Friends of Si-Kunda Charity

3 Moorlands Road, 

Wing, Nr. Leighton Buzzard, 

Beds, LU7 0RD

 

All cheques payable to "Friends of Si-Kunda Charity"

We will endeavour to send by return within a few days

Gift House

Hi,
Just to say we are a little behind with getting this "Gift House" up and running, my apologies for that. It is just taking longer than we thought to organise. However, we will soon (hopefully) be advertising Christmas and Gift cards on the website and then concentrate on getting the Gift House up and running as soon as we can. Meanwhile if any of you would like information about our Christmas and gift cards please let me know. sjones@friendsofsikunda.org

Enrolments, updates, etc.,

We have just enroled four more of our students at the GTTI, The Gambian Technical Training Institute - Sainy, Sanna, Lamin B Jammeh and Yankuba. They will be joining Seedy Dembo Jammeh who is about to start his second year of training as an electrician. We wish them all congratulations on being being accepted at the GTTI, and look forward to seeing them again on our next visit at the end of November.

Fatou has done exceptionally well in her exams and is now in Grade 12, she has ambitions to be a journalist. She is a very determined young lady and works hard, we wish her well.

We now have our next two trips to The Gambia booked, 28th Nov - 12th Dec 2011, and also 2nd Feb - 24th Feb 2012.

There is a lot of work done by Sankung in making sure all our students (we have 34 currently) are enroled in their appropriate schools and grades, uniforms made, text books purchased, any transport arrangements made, school fees paid, etc etc. But once they are all settled in their new school year, then plans are going to be made to have a roof put on the compound we have built in Busumbala this Autumn. We look forward to getting this progressed with the hope of Sankung and family being able to move in next Spring, along with any students needing accomodation.

New school uniforms are being made for the Si-Kunda Nursery School children, and I am pleased to say that three of the ladies who have had training at the Skills Centre are helping to make them.

Bonus Ball Game no.5!

This week we have just started our fifth game of the Bonus Ball, and our first winner this time is Eileen Stone, congratulations Eileen!!

This is proving to be a successful and enjoyable way of raising funds for our charity's projects and at the same time a new winner each week receives a cheque for £25.00

Long may it continue!!

Most of you have been with us since the very first game.

Many thanks to all of you who take part!

Olwen

Sadly our lovely mum-in-law Olwen has passed away. She has always been so supportive of us and this charity, and also sponsored one of our students, Ousmann. We shall ensure that he completes his education in her memory as that is what she would have wished. Also, the bonus ball number winner this week is No.42 which is her number. So we will leave her winnings in the charity to go towards the Si-Kunda Nursery School fund.

Sue and Marje.

Newsletter no.16.

Our Newsletter no. 16 has just been issued, so those of you on our mailing list should receive one any day now.

If anyone else would like a copy, or you believe you should have received one and haven't, please email me - sjonesfriendsofsikunda.org or telephone 01296 688039.

We will be pleased to send one on to you!

It includes amongst other news, reports on Si-Kunda Nursery School, Toniataba School and the Si-Kunda Community Centre & Workshop.

Sue