Bakau
Community Project-Diaspora Friday handed over two classroom blocks worth over
D300,000 to Bakau Lower Basic School.
The
Bakau Community Project-Diaspora is a nonprofit charitable organisation with
the sole aim to undertake self-help projects that provide community benefit and
community cohesion through practical operational project.
The
organisation was founded by citizens of Bakau, who are currently living in the
Diaspora.
Speaking
at the handing over ceremony, the principal of Bakau LBS, Ash Njie, thanked the
organisation on behalf of the school.
She
said the school needs maintenance as it was among the oldest schools in The
Gambia, adding that when he first came to the school there was no school gate
and a garden.
Mrs
Njie appealed to the organisation on behalf of the school to help them with the
facelifting of the school fence.
For
his part, Ismaila Bajo, one of the founding fathers of the BCP, said as
citizens of Bakau, they want to see the school function as it was expected.
He
thanked the staff and students of the school and encouraged them to continue
their hard work.
Mrs
Ndure, the former vice principal of Bakau LBS, said that she noticed that the
few years she spent in the school were one of the most remarkable and enjoying
moments in her career.
She
said apart from the classroom buildings, the school was still facing a lot of
constraints.
She
thanked the Diaspora team on behalf of the community chairman as their
intervention has changed the school a lot.
Mrs
Ndure further advised the members of the organisation to be checking on the
school occasionally to enable them to see the problems.
Saikou
S. Darboe, secretary of Bakau Community Project, thanked the Bakau Community
Project in Diaspora for their intervention in supporting the Bakau LBS.
