Joyce's
International Nursery School, Gambia
slideshow
of the charity
Newsletter
issue No1
April
2008 Newsletter No3 -read now! |
Recently,
while birdwatching in the Gambia, we met a marvelous
English lady called Joyce Avard from Kent.
Joyce has spent the last ten years fund raising for
a children’s nursery
she had built in a village about 40 kilometres from
Banjul.
The school, Miss Joyce's International Nursery, was
originally built for 150 children. The school now serves
36 children, from the ages of three to eight years.
Miss Joyce's International Nursery school consists of
three breezeblock
classrooms, a dusty playground and a water well, which
supplies water
for the entire village.
There are no toliet or kitchen facilities at the school.
Each of the three classrooms can only accomodate 40
to 50 children so
the children have their lessons in relays.
One classroom has no chairs so the children sit on the
floor for their
instruction.
We have installed toilet facilities during the summer
of 2005 for the childrens return to the school last
September. We have also built a kitchen complete with
utensils to provide a much needed midday meal! ( And
a seperate play ground for the tiny tots! )
Donations
for the food programme would be very much appreciated!
Contact
us for details of sponsoring a child for only £25
a year !
Thankyou |
