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Pageant News 14 January 2009
First of all, a big thank you all for the
messages of goodwill at Christmas and for the coming New Year that
we have received, not only from many of our members but also from a
large number of our Gambian students . We wish you all the best of
health and happiness for 2009 and we look forward to seeing as many
members as possible at the AGM on 25th January.
We were very busy before Christmas - as well
as all the preparations for a big family Christmas here we also
managed to pack up 5 more pallets of nursery school furniture! The
furniture was donated by two local schools - Shelley Primary School
in Broadbridge Heath and Littlehaven Infant School - and will be
eagerly received by the Gambian recipients. Thank you very much,
Shelley and Littlehaven.
The pallets left UK on 2 January and their
scheduled arrival date at Banjul is 25 January (I expect it will be
later!!) As this is NOT a complete container the goods will be
unloaded by Kamino Redcoat and then transport will have to be found
to take the still-assembled pallets to Campama LBS. This furniture
shipment is for two schools - one is Campama itself, for the new
nursery department that the Headteacher, Mrs Ndey Jatta, wishes to
start in the old GOVI building at the side of the school compound
and the other is a new nursery school we have started helping in
Gunjur, founded by Ahmed Manjang. We provided some furniture for the
latter school from the last shipment, which enabled Ahmed to open
the school - this latest shipment should complete his nursery
classroom requirements. There are also several classroom storage
units, again to be divided between Gunjur and Campama.
Packed into the spaces between the furniture
are a variety of packages, for use by families as well as by Schools
and Skills Centres. As ever, we give grateful thanks to our
pallet-packing assistants (Ann & Brian on this occasion) and to Tim
for storage and packing space and for transporting the pallets to
the shippers in Crawley on Christmas Eve.
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