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The Gambia Project

More pictures from The Gambia

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About five years ago Trinity and other churches in the Circuit took on the support of a nursery school in The Gambia. This came about though the personal commitment of Mary and Tony Farmer, who have enthused us all to contribute no less than £9,000 to date.

The school was run from the Director's house until we raised enough money for them to start building a school room. There was a set back in 2008 when the partly constructed school was wrecked by high winds.  But this replacement building has now been constructed and our next objective is to raise more money to complete the third classroom and toilet block.

Mary and Tony returned from their sixth visit to the nursery on the 2nd February 2012. Gifts of pens, pencils, chalk, jewellery for the women or cash to use in the Gambia would be gratefully accepted for their next visit in Jan '13

January 2011

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This panoramic wide screen shot of the grounds and pupils shows the size of the grounds and the number of pupils supported by Trinity and the Vale Circuit.

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The young lady in the foreground seems to have spotted a child not paying proper attention.

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You'll notice the children wear uniforms and clearly enjoy being at school.  They are keen students and it is very rewarding to see what is being achieved.

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Here you see Mary at work with a dozen of them, dispensing largess.  All resources are very scarce so Tony and Mary carried 5 suitcases of toys, books, pens, pencils, wall charts, balls and much more on their last visit.

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This is the annual school photograph, and includes the four teachers we are funding. Their salaries are £500 p.a. each and we do hope you will feel inspired to contribute to this expanding project.  For more information click on Tony Farmer.

 

 

Dine with fine wine for charity

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There is a most attractive way to raise money for The Gambia project.  Mary and Tony Farmer run diner parties and you can join in for £18.  They wait until they have eight people (so you could bring a couple of friends) and then they lay on an attrative menu, taking into account any dietry requirements.

You eat in the elegant surrounding of their Victorian house in central Penarth and will go home having had some good fun with friends, and contributed painlessly to this most worthy cause.