03 November 2016
Day 2
Off to Kotakula
Nursery and Lower Basic School on a very hot day where we were met by Ebrima
Cham, the administrator. We had a good
look at the tiling work that had been carried out and agreed it was to a very
high standard. We agreed to fund the installation of some ceilings for
classrooms that had only a bare corrugated-iron roof. Putting in ceilings
provides much needed insulation against the heat. We also discussed tiling the
library and improving the playground facilities. We asked for a feasibility study
into repairing and improving the solar power installations,
A tour of the
classrooms followed where we were greeted enthusiastically by all the children, then an impromptu dance in the playground. Pippa danced brilliantly – see the
picture below.
On then to Din
Ding Nursery school which Pageant hasn’t been to before. This school is funded
and helped by a Dutch charity. We went there as a student newly sponsored by a Pageant
member went there.
We then went to a
few compounds to deliver sponsorship money for students and after that to the offices of a company that specialises in providing deep bore holes to discuss the
installation of a one with associated pipework at a school with very poor water
facilities.
Tomorrow we are
leaving early to go to Gambia College which is in Brikama and then hope to
visit Lamin Lodge on our way back after several other visits
