School’s Open Again: Welcome Back!
BFiG Busumbala Nursery is open again for the new school year. School’s open again. ‘Uncle’ Lamin Barrow tells me that we have started the school year with 24 children but this will increase.
Our wonderful teacher, Mariama Fatty, has returned for her second year with us and you can see her hard at work with her new children in the attached video.
We have just paid for receipt books so we can accept school fees. We have also paid the printer man so he can print more school badges for the school uniforms.
We are still waiting for NAWEC (the Gambian water and electric company) to install the school tap. In the mean time, the compound next door to the school continues to provide water for our children.
The school grounds have now been cleared by Busumbala community members. Lamin has just said to me that it is important to work with the local community because, together, we will bring the benefits of education to the children of Busumbala Village in The Gambia. Lamin is a wise man.
In a few weeks time, when the seasonal rains have finally stopped, we will be repainting the entire school to make it look smarter.
As well as all the very kind and generous people who donate monthly to help pay our teacher, we have some wonderful new people working behind the scenes for ‘Building Futures in The Gambia‘…looking at you, Chris Sylla and Charlotte Amie Taylor.
And I am very hopeful that, with your support and the support of Albert Pritchard Infant and Wood Green Junior Federated Schools, we will have a wall built around our school grounds before the end of this new academic year. Please donate at Building Futures in The Gambia is fundraising for Building Futures in The Gambia if you’d like to help us along the way. If you’d like to bank transfer directly to our charity bank account then please contact me privately.
We still have 2025 charity calendars available. A4 is £8 and A3 is £10. Send me a message if you’d like one.
Don’t forget to check out our website at https://bfigcharity.org/ or https://www.buildingfuturesinthegambia.com/
School’s open again and there are exciting times are ahead for BFiG Busumbala Nursery School. Please come and join us on the journey!
