Archive for September 2019

Day 13 – Drumming workshop and party! Updated: Aug 29 Our final full day: our Gambian partners came to the Gunjur Lodge for lunch, for a drumming workshop guided by Butch our host at the Gunjur Project Lodge, followed by swimming and finishing off remaining piece of the projects.And then to the party! Many of us…

Day 11 The women’s garden, the unfinished mosque and spiders We’re busy doing our project work at the moment, but we did get out in the morning – quite early – to visit the women’s vegetable garden. It’s a very large, ten hectare site that had been given by a family to the women of…

Day 10 Youth Empowerment Project Today we went to visit the YEP in Bakau, the Youth Empowerment Project. It’s an EU funded programme to educate, train, and offer opportunities to young people in The Gambia. It’s focussed particularly on people who haven’t benefitted from a higher education. The fund addresses three key areas: tourism, IT,…

Day 9 Lunch at our partner’s compound I knew before we came out here that we would be spending a day in our Gambian partner’s compound, where they live with their family. And to be honest, I was dreading it a bit.Going to Kunte Kinteh Island and the slavery museum yesterday changed so much. After…