Illiasa inaugurates literacy school

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:59:29 GMT

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Illiasa Village in the North Bank Region (NBR), recently inaugurated a D250,000 adult literacy school for women sponsored by Withinton Girls School in London. The objective of the project is aimed to empower women through education by improving their literacy skills.

Edward Seckhan, Governor of North Bank Region (NBR), speaking at the inauguration ceremony on the school grounds extolled the donors for their kind gesture.

He described the project as timely, and greatly complementary to efforts of the Gambia Government towards the provision of accessible and affordable education to all Gambians.

Mr Tamba Kinteh, local government officer (LGO), Kerewan Area Council (KAC); Alhaji Afang Saikou Jammeh, Alkalo of Illiasa village; and Mrs Kaddy Marong, chairperson of the Village Women Development Association, all expressed heartfelt and sincere gratitude to the donors for the project.

Lamin K Jammeh, project manager of Malvern Charity Organisation in The Gambia, urged the villagers to make good use of the school. He gave assurances of his organisation’s readiness to work with the village association whenever the need arises. He revealed that the donors had built a nursery school named after Mama Tamba in Illiasa Village.

The Withinton Girls School also donated 2 bycles to Duntumalang village and medicament worth thousands of Dalasis to the Illiasa Village Health Centre in NBR.

The donors, on December 19, 2007, also laid the foundation stones of a poultry house valued at D150,000 in Kombo Kerewan Village, Western Region (WR). The poultry house is expected to start operations in Febuary ,2008.

Mrs Kaeren Browninj, head of the Withinton Girls School delegation, expressed pride in setting up the poultry house in The Gambia. According to her, the project is part of her school’s development programmes for The Gambia. She revealed that the chicken for the poultry will be secured in The Gambia through the Department of Livestock and Vetinary services.

Ebrima D F Jarjou, representative of the Alkalo of Kombo Kerewan, Alhaji Dawda Jarjou, described the laying of the foundation stone of the poultry house as yet another positive development registered in the village.

Author: by Lamin M. Dibba

Blood Chilling Machine for Illiassa Health Centre

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:05:20 GMT

Saturday, July 07, 2007

A blood-chilling machine valued at thousands of dalasis, was recently presented to the Illiassa Health Centre by the Managing Director of CMI Trading UK Limited, Mr. Steve Gotting, through his West African agent based in The Gambia, Mr. Bakary Jammeh.

This gesture is in response to Mr. Gotting’s pledge last year that he would provide the machine for them. This is his second gift to the centre within a year.

The machine was handed over by Mr. Bakary Jammeh to a member of the Council of Elders of the area, Alhaji Momodu Mbake Jammeh.

Receiving the machine, Pa Jammeh thanked Mr. Gotting for the gift and for honoring his pledge.
Mr. Lamin Jammeh, NAM for the area appreciated the gesture and called on members of staff to handle the equipment carefully.

According to Mr. Bakary Jammeh, Mr. Gotting is no stranger to The Gambia, as he has a branch of his company in our Sub-region.

He said Mr. Gotting was impressed with the improvements made in the health sector (as his wife is a Nursing Sister in the UK), and as a result he made a pledge that he would assist in any way possible to help supplement the efforts of government.

Mr. Jammeh revealed that a three-phase generator to provide electricity for the Health Centre is on its way.

Author: By Ahmed Carayol

Source: The Point

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Illiasa inaugurates literacy school

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