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Sponsor a Gambian child's education
for less than 25p a day
Pageant Ethical Gifts
- Did you know about
Pageant's Ethical Gifts Scheme?
(more details) You can give our
tokens for
any celebration,
providing help for schools, children, villagers and environmental
projects in The Gambia.
12 May 2012 - Urgent Appeal for New Water
Tank - The water tank at SHM Nursery in Gunjur has collapsed,
and the school has had to close until it can be replaced and the
water supply restored. Please help us with a donation to replace the
tank. [Further
information here]
29 April 2012 - Gambia Food Crisis - A drought covering much of west
Africa during the 2011-12 growing season has resulted in a 70% reduction
in Gambian crop yields, and an emergency has been declared.
[more
info]
19 April 2012 - World Malaria Day - 25
April is World Malaria Day, when we should all focus on the fight to
eliminate malaria.
Read about the latest developments.
18 April 2012 - Distribution of mosquito
nets - 64 sets of mosquito nets were distributed by Pageant in
upriver villages of Jarreng and Kanikunda.
See our news page
15 April 2012 - Blog posts from The Gambia
- The Pageant team have returned from two weeks in The Gambia, where they visited schools and villages, and giving
some 'fun' lessons to nursery children. Frances kept us up to
date with daily posts on
The Pageant News Blog. For your
convenience, we have collected all these posts on
this web page.
29 March 2012 - It's Official! - Sarah
Hayes finally gets certificate from Guinness World Records for the
"Fastest marathon dressed as a bottle (female)". [more
info]
29 March
2012 - Pound a Day - nearly £600 has been raised by Frances and
Rachel. They are now off to The Gambia with lots of goodies for
their 'fun' classes for nursery kids. [more
info]
14 March 2012 - New Ethical Gift
- Productivity of village vegetable gardens can be greatly increased
by the appropriate use of fertilizer. We have a new ethical gift of
a 50kg bag of fertilizer, which can be shared between many
gardeners. (see
our list of gifts)
12 March 2012 - Pound a Day - This is the
week! - Frances and Rachel will be attempting to live on £1 a
day from today until Friday 16, to raise funds for their teaching
trip to The Gambia.
(more
information and sponsorship link)
11 March 2012 - Microscopy & Science
Workshops Update - Chris Robertson's
report on the Waves topic is now published. (see
report)
9 March 2012 - Wordsmiths Wanted - Your
Chance To Write A Short Story - Pageant is now working with Julie
Laslett and Caroline Webster, who recently ran one-day workshops in
the Gambia on ‘Creative Writing’. Via this website, we hope to build
up a story bank of short, fictional stories, which can be used by
teachers in The Gambia. To find out more and learn how you can get
involved,
please click here.
8 March 2012 - Newspaper report on Pageant
Workshops - Horsham newspaper 'The Resident' has a report in its
current edition about Collyer's part in the Pageant workshops. This
can be read in their online edition by following
this link.
7 March 2012 - A Pound a Day - A
Pageant team are off to The Gambia in April, and will visit three
nursery schools to take some fun lessons in art, English and
sports. Frances and Rachel are raising funds to buy materials for their
fun classes. As a
challenge, they will try to eat and drink for less than £1 a day
during the working week. (more
information and sponsorship link)
9 February 2012 - Microscopy & Science
Workshops - Chris Robertson is one of the Pageant team running
these workshops in The Gambia, and he is posting regular updates on
our
Pageant News Blog. For
your convenience we are collecting his posts on
this page
as soon as they appear on the blog.
7 February 2012 - Brighton Teachers in The
Gambia Tom Kimber a teacher at Westdene Primary School in
Brighton has organised a group of teachers on a week-long visit to
Albion Lower Basic School in Banjul in the February half-term break.
This will allow the two schools to further strengthen their
relationship, and lead to significant learning opportunities for
both Westdene and Albion pupils. (see
news page)
2 February 2012 - Science and Microscopy
Workshops Pageant's Science and Microscopy Workshops will be
starting in The Gambia in a few days time (see
details). Pippa is already there,
and the other members of the team are flying out soon. Chris
Robertson will be keeping us up to date with news by posting to the
Pageant News Blog. See his
first post now:
Day -4.
24 January 2012 - Artemisia Ambassador Pageant has appointed
Lamin Njie as
'Artemisia Ambassador'. Following training at Gambia's National
Agricultural Research Institute, he will tour The Gambia providing
training and support to help village communities grow and use their own
crops of Artemisia annua - a plant with proven anti-malarial activity.
(more about
the Artemisia Project)
