Banjulinding; CRR village with absolutely no amenities, no trace of development

The village lies on the main road and is a village with no single trace of modern development or amenities necessary to create an enabling environment for its people, according to residents.

Getting to the village and coming face-to-face with the challenges and problems of the people, one may easily conclude that it is like a village of the 16-century, as there is nothing that could guarantee its people a bit of the taste of a happy life.

Speaking to this reporter, Ebrima Sanneh, a young native of the village, said that they have really been suffering. 

“We have nothing. We have no source of water and there is no electricity. There is absolutely nothing here. Even though we are by the roadside, transportation is one of the greatest problems faced by the villagers.”

He added; “There is no school here, no single school at all. Children go to school to other faraway villages. Those going to school must trek kilometers every day to get to those schools, and that is difficult. Having a bicycle makes it easier a bit the difficulty of getting to school, but very few can afford a bicycle. Therefore, many of the children here and the young people are not going to school,” he said in response to a question about their access to education.

Ebrima furthered that sports activities do not take place at the village because they have no field or playing ground where they could carry out sporting events. 

The young people of the village go to a village some kilometers away to play football whenever the need arises. This, according to him, has discouraged many of the youths of the village from sports.

There is little, or in fact, no farming practices being carried out, and this could simply be explained by the problem of access to water. 

“We find it very difficult to even have what to drink, not to talk about having enough water to water our gardens.”

He pleaded for help from people in any positive way they could which could alleviate them and ease the suffering that they have inherited from their ancestors who had lived there. 

He also appealed for the government to remember them now and come to their aid, for they have been forgotten for years.