Hazel Foot Print Trust and Share Foundation UK Base Charities on Thursday donated computers and funded The Gambia arts Project at Bakau Lower Basic School.Each Charity contributed 5000 pounds making it a total of ten thousand pounds.The donation was in partnership with Affecting
Real Change, a charitable foundation based and registered in the United
Kingdom, The Gambia and Indian.
Speaking
recently to The Point, the founder of Affecting Real Change, Musa Saidy, said
they are currently building a computer lab in Bakau New Town Lower Basic School
and are also rolling out a project for the school called the Gambia Art
project.
He
said the two projects are geared towards helping in enhancing students’
knowledge and understanding of computer and art at early age.
According
to Mr Saidy, the two projects – the computer lab construction and the art
project - are funded by different charitable organizations in the UK to the
tune of £10,000 .
He
said the building of the computer lab started since 11 January 2017 and it is
expected to finish on 25 February 2017, when the new lab will be handed over to
the school headmistress together with computers in for laboratory. The volunteer sponsors and facilitators of
the project “are currently in The Gambia making sure the work is completed as
planned,” he said.
Saidy
said the intervention as timely, adding that the computer lab will go a long
way in boosting students’ knowledge and understanding of computer skills at the
early age of childhood.
“It
will also make teaching more attractive and easier for teachers,” he added.
He
said the students are academically sound and would certainly utilize the lab
wisely.
Mr
Saidy also thanked the donors for their invaluable support to the school and
pleaded with them to continue doing more for children in The Gambia and beyond.
Elicia
Morgan, who spoke on behalf of the donors, expressed gratitude to the
management of the school for partnering and cooperating with them to achieve
results, saying the projects will be of immense help to students as, for
instance, the computer lab project would let them understand computer science
at early age.
Madam
Morgan, in her remarks, assured the management of their commitment as a
charitable foundation to continue doing more for the school as a charitable
foundation.
She also appealed to the school headmistress to allow the students to be using the computers, as they are mainly for them, when the lab is handed over to the school management on Saturday.shares foundation is sponsoring the Gambia Arts project for the pupils and teachers at thee said school.while Hazel foot print trust sponsor the computers lab.
