Sittanunku Project For Agriculture & Nursery School – Latest Update 2020
The school build as it stands now.
During December 2011 and March 2012 Karmic Angels have signed agreements to start their latest projects on the North Bank of the Gambia (the poorest part of the Gambia) in the construction of the 1st ever nursery school in the area on land donated by the village. The terms & conditions for Karmic Angels and Sittanunku were agreed and signed at the end of April 2012 with the school being named “Angels Sittanunku Nursery School”. Karmic Angels also propose to build perimeter fencing and an installation of a borehole for their magnificent crop field.
The cropfield is the size of 8 football pitches and there are 210 women who each have there own 25m by 25m plots where they have produced some wonderful crops which now need protection from the animals.
Now the foundations and block making were started by the villagers on 5th June and within 2 weeks of magnificent effort by many children, youths, men and women they have constructed 4000 blocks and dug the foundations ready for the skilled masons to start their work from 20th June. So all systems are go and it seems subject to the rainy season causing a problem that by the end of July the school will be nearing completion. This will enable 130 nursery children who have never had the chance of education to start on the educational ladder. Marvellous news indeed.
The Latest Update to the school project. “Angels Sittanunku Nursery School” is nearing completion and all that’s left is the roofing and the painting inside and out. The picture above shows the stage we are at on 23rd October 2012. Now all we need is the furniture which we need as soon as possible so that the school can be inaugurated in January 2013 on our visit to them.
Seven years on and the school is doing fantastic, the Minyantaa crop fields are doing well but the local bakery that was added is lacking by not having a baker, but all in all everything is going well. The village is doing well towards self sufficiency.
Look at the latest story below from the Point Newspaper on 8th May. Thank you to our top reporter Sainey Marenah and also to Halima Ceesay, the Point reporter who came with us on the ferry and long trip to provide this story.
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“Angels Sittanunku Nursery School is still going strong after 7 years and we are amazed at the progress that is continuing on the North Bank
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