The Jiffin Village Development Associationm is benefiting from a nursery school project, funded by Friends of The Gambia, a UK based charitable organisation.

Confirming this to the Daily Observer, Bakary Dembajang, Coordinator and Secretary General of the Village Development Association, said members of the association provided the human resource, while roofing and other small expenditures were done by the UK charitable organisation, headed by Lamin Jammeh, a native of Si-Kunda Village in Jarra West.

Mr Dembajang said the school project was near completion, saying “it was left with the furniture and the fence of the school premises. However, he lamented on the association’s inability to provide a clean-drinkable water for the children, as well as learning materials.

He then expressed gratitude to the donors for coming to their aid, “saying the school will serve as a stepping-stone for the acquisition of knowledge in the village. This is the first school in the village.

All the students had to travel to Kaiaf or Toniataba villages, to be educated. And this has been a burden on the village development efforts, because education is the key to everything”. He then called for support towards the development of the school and scholarship for the students.