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Our chair Diane Fisher reports on her third week in the Gambia, where she’s been securing the land for Ceesay Nursery School’s permanent school building and watching a country celebrating a new political era. This week has been a complete contrast to last week. On Saturday evening, former President Jammeh finally left the country andContinue reading “Ceesay Nursery School Construction Project: Week 3 Report”

As outgoing Gambian president Yahya Jammeh finally hands over power to his successor Adama Barrow, our chair Diane Fisher reports back on a troubled week in the country. To my dismay, most of our work this week has been delayed due to the stalling of the outgoing president Yahya Jammeh. He was due to handContinue reading “Ceesay Nursery School Construction Project: Week 2 Report”

On 9th January our chair Diane Fisher and steering group member Mala Gassama flew out to Serrekunda in the Gambia to kickstart our project to build Ceesay School a permanent building. Their first task? To buy some land for the school. Diane reports back on their first week. Happily leaving behind the cold, wet UK,Continue reading “Ceesay Nursery School Construction Project: Week 1 Report”

On Sunday 7th August our chair Diane Fisher and her team of volunteers hosted a fundraising open mic-style gig at the famous Water Rats pub in central London. Between entry money and the raffle and auction, we raised nearly £450, bringing us another step closer to generating the £20,000 needed to build a permanent buildingContinue reading “Fundraising Gig Raises £450 for Ceesay School”

A knitting group at Kings Cross Brunswick Neighbourhood Association held a fundraising event for Ceesay Nursery School right before Easter. They baked delicious cakes, encouraged all the community centre members to bring in items to donate to the tombola and made a beautiful display of all their hand-knitted items, to sell in aid of ourContinue reading “Knitting Group Fundraiser for Ceesay School”