The following is culled from FRROYAA BURNING ISSUEs NO: 83/2002 12 - 15 December, 2002 ------------------ Gambia Tourism Support And Dumbarton UK Gives Free Education To 90 Children At Lambai Nursery School, London Corner The Gambia Tourism Support aims to link small scale tourism enterprises with the corporate responsibility to assist the community. Francis Glynn, Kabirou Touray and Foday Suso in collaboration with guests from Dumbarton, Alistair and Patricia Macindu met the National assembly member for SERREKUNDA central, the councillor of Serekunda ward, Mr. Francis Mendy, the Alkalo, Mr. Seedy Jobe and the chairperson of the ward committee Mr. Lamin Jobe at Santa Yalla street to launch a free education programme for 90 children enrolled at Lambai Nursery School. Mr. Lamin Jobe chaired the meeting. He indicated that the aim of the sponsors from Dumbarton is to provide, free education, meals and health care to 90 children in Lambai Nursery School. This was applauded by the parents. He assured the sponsors that these will be corporation by the community to support the school. Mr. Samateh, the teacher in charge of the school explained the history of the school and thanked Mr. Tunkara the proprietor of the building for his cooperation. He called on the National Assembly member, Halifa Sallah, the councillor, Mr. Francis Mendy, the chairperson of the ward committee, Mr. Lamin Jobe to help the school to stand on its feet. Mr. Kabirou Touray indicated that Foday Suso pioneered the project, that they had invited the National Assembly member, the Alkalo of Serrekunda, the councillor of Serrekunda ward and the chairperson to ensure that the project does not fail. He said that Foday could have taken the project to his own home town but had shown what a good citizen should do. Foday emphasizes the same sentiments. He indicated how Francis Glynn motivated him to utilise his musical skills to entertain tourists and serve the community; that it was not sufficient to make money but also to give support to the community. Alistair expressed his affinity to the Gambia. He saw that they have the aim to help the children but would want money to be utilized as programmed; that failure to do so could lead to ceasure of support. The councillor, Mr. Francis Mendy expressed his happiness that such a project for free nursery education could start in the constituency and ward; that it is a great development which should be managed properly through committees and boards to ensure that it succeeds. Alkalo Seedy Jobe expressed his appreciation for the developments and expressed his desire for corporation among the community leaders. The National Assembly member indicated that the heart should always speak the language of service, that the problem of humanity anywhere should be the concern of humanity everywhere. He expressed appreciation for the initiative and assured GTS and Alistair that there will be transparency and accountability in implementing the project, that he will corporate with the councillor, the chairperson of the ward committee, the parents, the headmaster and teachers to establish a plan and structure for the project to ensure it's successful implementation. He offered D2000 from the constituency Development Initiative fund to the project to promote the spirit of self help. One of the parents, Fatou Mbenga gave the vote of thanks. She called for cooperation and unity irrespective of tribe to serve the children. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: FOROYAA (Freedom) NO: 83/2002 12 - 15 December, 2002 ISSN: 0796- 08573 Address: FOROYAA, P.O.Box 2306, Serrekunda, The Gambia, West Africa Telephone: (220) 393177 Fax: (220) 393177 Email address: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~