Education and School materials

29 children can attend school for a year, made possible by there sponsors! They all got a new school uniform, a pair of shoes and a schoolbag. Each child is supported by a sponsor who takes care of the cost of the school year.

The foundation guarantees the children they can finish their education, even if a sponsor has no longer the possibility to continue his support.

We have transported books and other materials from the Netherlands to the Gambia.

Foundation Read to Grow supplied the books and other materials where donated by people and schools, who also subscribe the aims of the foundation.

School furniture is produced in the Gambia, whereby the local economy is also supported.

Lower basic school Tabokoto.

Our first visit to this lower basic school convinced us of the necessity to support this project. The building lacks doors and windows, it cannot be locked and there are no school materials to work with. The furniture consists of concrete benches.

We want to support the building activities of this school, so the 300 children who attend classes in this school, can do so in classrooms provides with school materials and wooden tables and benches.

In 2006 the first step is finished and the school is already to small for the student who now are attending class. The plan to build more classrooms is supported by the foundation and we make a start with it. In 2008 the school is not finished, but the school board is ready to go on by them selves.

Freetown School

In 2006 we visit Freetown, where Amadou Fadera founded a nursery school, with a few community members. The school is made of palm trees and leaves and has hardly any furniture or lesson materials. We decided to support this project, and in 2007 the building of a school is started by the community, facilitated by Nice to be Nice.

In 2008 the school with two classrooms and a teachers office is finished. The well near the school is made deeper so they can have fresh water from it.

The project in total still is not completed, for there is also the need to fence the garden, where the women grow different kinds of vegetables. They sell them on the market and with the output they can pay the salaries of the teachers, the maintenance of the building, the meals for the children etc.

The Freetown project is a project which we like to complete as much as possible, so the general conditions of life within the community can be improved.

Misiranding School

In 2008 the foundation is requested to support a project in Misiranding, a village on the north bank. We visited the village together with Foundation Laat Gambia Leren, and we start with the building of a school with four classrooms and a teachers office.

In this community we also have the intention to make it complete as possible. For both projects we like to support the communities with their plans, to improve different aspects, so they will be increasingly self-supporting.