Wednesday 13 February 2013

Gambia - recent fundraising success

We have raised sufficient funds to pay for 1 solar panel, 1 x 2000W inverter and 1 x 200A battery.

Our future fund raising efforts will target an additional panel and 3 additional batteries to the Solar Power capability. On hearing the news Alhagi the Medina Sering Mass scout leader wrote.
"Dear 3rd Ware Scouts, I have just spoken to the new school principal, Mr. Yahya Mass and he is profoundly thanking all 3rd Ware Scouts for their support to the scouts and the school in general. Everybody here is grateful of your efforts in helping our scouts, the school and the village.
These panels will go a long way in helping the students to be able to have their studies in the school as many parents cannot afford candles daily for their children to read. At the same time this will help in typing and printing questions at the end of the academic year.
We thus pray for the success of each and every scout there and their families. We pray that the lord will repay all your good work. You have made great impacts in our lives and we honestly cannot express our thanks in words. All we have is prayers and this we will surely keep showering you with. Best wishes, Alhagi."
After reading this response many of us were very humbled when we think of the things that we worry about it really does put things into perspective. Our Group twinning enables us to learn about their lifestyle – needing candles to be able to study & their grateful thanks for what we are doing, which is so little.

This gives us great encouragement for the future support of our friends in Medina Sering Mass

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