ChildFund-The
Gambia, Wednesday handed over assortment
of learning materials to five schools across five districts in the Foni area,
at a handing over ceremony held in Sibanor.
The
donated items include 30 bicycles, 30
rechargeable lamps, footballs, over 4000 exercise books, book shelves for
school libraries as well pens and pencils. The gesture is part of a one-year
project on education and child protection funded by ChildFund Korea.
Country
Director, Musu Kuta Komma, said the items are intended to yield positive
learning outcomes for children.
“The
project dubbed ‘Dream Reader’ has the overall goal of enabling children to
acquire basic learning skills through access to education services. It is also geared towards helping parents and
communities to acquire knowledge and skills to properly nurture practices that
can be beneficial to children,” she explained.
Fatou
Camara, who spoke on behalf of the beneficiary communities and their children,
said given the economic condition of most parents, they find it hard to fulfill
some of the basic educational needs of their children.
“The
bicycles alone will help reduce the time our children endure to trek to and
from school, while the lamps will make it easy for the students to study in a
convenient way. We therefore thanked
ChildFund for the development.”
The
Dream Reader project is being implemented by ChildFund The Gambia and one of
its local partners Ding Ding Federation. It was launched in October 2019 and
since then, it has established reading clubs in the intervention communities
and recently held a child protection sensitisation forum for stakeholders for
teachers, parents, and police officers.
