Mr. Camara thanks for the correction. It was a error that was not meant to
mislead anybody. On the issue of lack paper in some schools, I am sure
region 5 (CRD)is not alone in that. Anyway the point I wanted to make was
that atleast a lot of effort is being made towards the improvement of access
to education facilities throughout the country and to that end everybody
should help whenever possible. I am sure if your efforts in providing
corrugated Iron sheets and writing materials are emulated may be in, say 10
years time, the literacy level in the country will improve significantly. A
few weeks back a Seatle based group donated about 25,000 books to schools in
The Gambia. No I haven't travelled between Farafeni and Janjangbureh for
quite a while now but I know that road is in a terrible state. In fact I
come from a place not very far from Panchang along that road and my some
members of my family still live there.

KB



>From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Let us respect expression of views
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:32:50 +0100
>
>On 26 Feb 2001, at 16:15, Daddy Nying wrote:
> > 2. EDUCATION
> > Last year the government built 237 schools throughout
> > the country under IDA sponsoreship, through the medium of Gamworks
>agency.
>
>This figure about government building 237 schools is very misleading. I
>think
>you mean 237 class-room blocks because I have seen some of these. Whenever
>you
>have the chance, I think you should visit Panchang Basic Cycle School
>because
>they could use one of these buildings. In November we bought 5 packets of
>corrugated iron sheets and nails for them to have a roof for the only good
>building they had there.
>
>During my recent trip to The Gambia in November I was informed by many
>schools
>in region 5 (CRD) that they were lack of papers since the beginning of the
>school year in September. Imagine that a whole school was without a single
>sheet of paper from September to November. How do you expect teachers to
>prepare their lessons? Three of the schools were lucky because we had
>brought
>them more than 50.000 sheets of A4 paper and other school materials. I
>visited
>the regional Education Office in Jangjanbureh and was informed there that
>the
>only paper that education department supplied to schools was the class
>registers.
>
>Have you travelled from Farafenni to Janjanbureh recently?  How is the
>condition of that road?
>
>
>Momodou Camara
>Copenhagen - Denmark
>
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