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End July 2011
I've spent the last month making colourful flower pots out of old car tyres. Local upper school students came to help. It's been hard work but fun.
We heard that the President is coming to Bakau on Thursday 28th July so, we decided that we were going to ask the organising committee if we can use our empty flower pots to decorate the street and the arena for the rally.
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!!! YIPPEE WE HAVE THE GO AHEAD !!!
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It was a great occassion. The president has plans for his country.
The following morning Yaya my caretaker and I decided to move our pots to the highway which is equivalent to a four lane 'A' road in the UK. We hired a truck and the rest is history.
Oasis Project colourful tyre pots are the talk of the town. Gambia hasn't seen recycling like this. The people love them.
Old car tyre recycling is about the health and environment of the nation. Old car tyres hold stagnant water and are breeding ground for mosquitoes. Mosquito bites can cause malaria. Malaria is a problem in Africa.
Mid July 2011
In between old car tyres and colourful flower pots, we found time to participate in a march past in Banjul for President Jammeh's 17 years in office anniversary. We had a fabulous day. I felt like a teenager again.
I was also taken to the womens vegetable garden and shown a practice that has gone on for years which is a real health hazard. In short they are diverting sewage water to use as fertilizer for their crop!!! This is an epidemic waiting to happen.
WHAT MAKES ME THINK I CAN SUCCEED WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED?
Well, I'm going to have a good try...
The Oasis Project approach is to educate the people causing the danger and the people suffering from this practice.
I have written an information sheet and intend to recruit local youths to go compound to compound using this newsletter to educate.
We will:-
Make people aware of the wrong they are doing
Make people aware of the sicknesses they are causing
Make people aware of how to avoid making others
sick and getting sick themselves
Make people aware of the danger they are causing
and how to do things better
June 2011
On my arrival in June I was invited to join the Operation Clean the Nation (OCN) taskforce committee. They are seeking an audience with the president to discuss equipment requirement for the continued operation of the President's initiative.
Divine Hope School - I have also spent some time with the children and teachers at the orphanage nursery school that Oasis Project support. Francis Obi who operates the school has been refurbishing additional classrooms.
I would like you to help Oasis Project raise funds to furnish and equip the classrooms for the start of the school year in September 2011.
NEWS from KENT
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