This website details how Kitwell Primary School in Birmingham, UK has worked alongside schools in the Gambia for nearly two years. Please take a look and reblog. Thank you.
(Source: kitwell.bham.sch.uk)
This photo was taken in Makasutu Quarry. It’s just up the road from Makumbaya Village. The children had followed us from the village to the quarry. The gentlemen in the middle is called Keith. He’s a headteacher at a primary school in Halesowen UK.
Mohammed was one of our guides. He’s worked with students and lecturers from Newman College in Birmingham for a number of years. This photo was taken in Talinding Nursery School.
These ladies help prepare the food and the tuck for the children at Makumbaya Lower Basic School.
The gentleman in the photo is one of the elders in Makumbaya Village. He’s played an important role in the line of communication between myself and the headteacher at Makumbaya Lower Basic School. The boy in the middle is his son.
Children at Talinding Nursery School. I was inside the classroom. They were outside. Their school day had just finished but they didn’t want to go home.
Wise words on a wall in the Headteacher’s office at a Bakau Newtown Lower Basic School.
This family were sitting amidst all the activity at Bakau Fish Market.
Fatou and her family have worked alongside Newman College for a number of years. The boys in this photo are three of her children. The pose is entirely of their own doing:- two eyes, one eye, no eyes.