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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14 Apr 2006 : 10:50:21
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If anyone out there is involved in sponsoring schools, could I ask that next time you are in Gambia you pay this school a visit? It really needs help.
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sab
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Apr 2006 : 16:47:34
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Greetings, please contact fundraising@GETSuk.org ... have a good weekend, regards, sab......
www.GETSuk.org |
The world would be a poorer place if it was peopled by children whose parents risked nothing in the cause of social justice, for fear of personal loss. (Joe Slovo - African revolutionary) |
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sab
United Kingdom
912 Posts |
Posted - 14 Apr 2006 : 18:38:07
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Greetings, Have you taken a look at Kwinella through Google Images plus News?
Regards,
Freedom & peace |
The world would be a poorer place if it was peopled by children whose parents risked nothing in the cause of social justice, for fear of personal loss. (Joe Slovo - African revolutionary) |
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ranga
USA
149 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jul 2006 : 05:44:19
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| gambiabev, we'll be glad to provide our free service to Kwinella Nursery School. It is small, but something. Can you recommend a teacher to us? |
T.K. "Ranga" Rengarajan
Founder, Geoseed Project
http://www.geoseedproject.com
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jambo
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Posted - 26 Jul 2006 : 19:19:19
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ranga can i ask what is the service.
bev, have you been in touch with them lately how are they doing. |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
3091 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 09:33:59
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I will find out the headteachers name and post it here.
I've just got back from a week in Spain........ didnt touch the computer or watch tv for a week. |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 15:11:32
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| Fab no tv, or computer, how is the fund raising going. |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
3091 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 16:50:27
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Not done much this year so far. I am doing a car boot sale on Sunday...its a start.
I am aiming to pay for the teacher at Kolior nursery school to become a qualified teacher. |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2006 : 18:38:28
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| keep foucesed good luck with the boot sale, i might have found a charity tohelp me ship my books to Essau, fingers croosed. It is a good idea to pay for the teacher. |
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ranga
USA
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Posted - 10 Aug 2006 : 07:21:05
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| jambo, our free service is a Geopack. It is a set of 12 recent issues of the National Geographic Magazine. Each issue is a small book with wide ranging colorful educational articles. The magazine has lots of beautiful photos. From time to time, the magazine comes with a wall map. We also include one such wall map in a Geopack. |
T.K. "Ranga" Rengarajan
Founder, Geoseed Project
http://www.geoseedproject.com
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
3091 Posts |
Posted - 10 Aug 2006 : 10:01:51
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This would be more appropriate to lower Basic Schools I think. Most large villages have their own school. You would be welcome at any of them. They mainly need very basic stationary; pens, pencils, paper. Then reading books, educational toys and so on. Some schools try to grow some of their own food, so tools, seeds etc are useful too. Clothes for the children would be helpful too.
Also dont forget the teachers and assistants. They would like pens, teaching materials and perhaps a few little luxuries such as shampoo, perfume or after shave, novels to read. The list is endless really. They have very little.
Of course the village teachers would all like mobile phones to keep in touch with family and friends and other teachers in neighbouring places.
If you take things to the villages, nothing would be wasted, but I would take low tech things FIRST. Then see what they need over and above the basics. It is my view you are best to choose one or two places to help ALOT rather than spread yourself too thinly and make no difference.
Kiang central, in the lower river division is one of the poorest areas as the road acess is very poor. Lots of people help areas fairly close to the tourist areas. I would say travel to Kiang central and just turn off the road into a village!!! |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 10 Aug 2006 : 16:36:34
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Agree on that, anyting i have taken to a village is used. clothes, shoes, books of any description will find a home. If you cannot focus on a school, take it kiang, find a mosque, shopkeeper, someone will put you in the right direction.
It is nice to go off the beaten track, Ranga do you have any ideas on which areas you want, for me it is Farfenni, or Niumi. Low tech is good.
Do you have access to wind up radio's just a suggestion they are well received. |
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ranga
USA
149 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2006 : 08:17:53
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gambiabev, jambo, thanks for the perspective.
I agree low tech is preferable. I had seen ads for the wind up radio, but they're often premium priced because they're targeted at high-end camping stores like REI.
Our premise is that Gambians will take care of themselves once education reaches a critical level. Our mission is therefore to simply stimulate the desire for education. We send a Geopack through the post office to dedicated teachers. In Gambia, we'd like to serve a network of schools in geographic clusters.
We do not have a preference for the area. Farafenni or Niumi are fine. Kiang Central is fine as well. Up the river is preferred, but not required. Off the beaten track is preferred as well. We have a simple form:
1. Name of teacher: Mr/Mrs ...
2. School postal address: (full address please)
3. Number of children likely to benefit: (estimate is fine)
4. Context: (a few sentences on teacher, school, community and students)
Just cut and paste and mail it to catalyst@geoseedproject.com.
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T.K. "Ranga" Rengarajan
Founder, Geoseed Project
http://www.geoseedproject.com
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jojo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 Aug 2006 : 09:15:14
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| Gambiabev - I don't think that the Geopacks are only suitable for lower basic schools. What about the parents and teachers in the nursery schools? The adults could borrow them. Even if the adults can't speak English, they could possibly talk to the children about the books, thereby instilling a love of books in the children. Also, the children are so unused to any sort of pictorial image that it would be an education for the little ones just to see the attractive colours and images. Children need to understand basic things first, like which direction the print goes,and how to "read" a picture, and how the text often explains the picture. The teachers could build on the visuals to teach them English vocabulary. I also agree that low tech is preferable, but the schools can do a lot with very basic tools. In nursery education here,(UK) for example, children are encouraged to play with sand and water, to explore volume and mass, vocabulary such as the difference between "full" and "empty" That would be seen as a waste of time in most Gambian nursery schools, which is a shame, because children actually learn best by "doing" rather than chanting. |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
3091 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2006 : 10:09:26
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I agree children learn best by doing. But the class sizes and available equipment severely restrict this approach. In Uk until the 1960s most things were learnt by rote because of similar class sizes.
Hopefully as Gambians are trained as teachers and more support is put into nursery education we may see some change. |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2006 : 14:43:47
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jojo, bev, All I hope is that Gambia gets the educational materials, if it does not get to an area I know of then I pray it goes somewhere. It will never be wasted.
Ranga, I will get you names of teachers and educationalists.
Since travelling to Gambia I have changed my approach, things once given to an education centre will trickle through, just get it there.
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