tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84943419707389457322024-03-05T04:27:14.404+00:00GambiaGOESGambian Emergency Occasional Support (G.O.E.S.) is a micro charity aimed at giving assistance to people in need in The Gambia. We help with medical and educational expenses and are registerd with HMCR for Gift Aid.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger438125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-68233783861796372192021-07-04T12:36:00.000+01:002021-07-04T12:36:15.105+01:00Re-postedJust a reminder!<div><br /></div><div><div class="a-row" id="authorName" style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100px; height: 70px; width: 1000px;"><span class="a-size-large a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 28px !important; font-weight: 700 !important; left: 313px; line-height: 32px !important; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Tom Ireland</span></div><div class="a-fixed-left-grid" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; position: relative;"><div class="a-fixed-left-grid-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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He started writing by collecting stories he told in Gambian junior schools and published 'Stories for Gambian Children' as an experiment. Together with his wife he travels to West Africa several times a year in support of the charity 'GambiaGOES'. The Malinding series of books are set in an uninhabited area along the River Gambia and feature imaginary European and Gambian characters.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The books emphasize the similarities between peoples of different cultures, creeds and races.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />All monies from the sales of these books goes to support people in need of assistance with education or medical provision.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Now (late 2019) working on 'What use are Uncles?' - which seems to be turning into a ghost story, following the ventures into fantasy in 'Jodie Two'.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />General grumbles about life and reports of the work done by GOES may be found in our blog: GAMBIAgoes.blogspot.com</span></div><div class="a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header" id="author_biography_expander_heading" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; position: absolute; 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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-29921792768096548272020-09-12T16:35:00.005+01:002023-04-23T17:36:50.720+01:00Follow up!<p> Good news! 23 April 2023</p><p>Follow up? Well, it's been a few years but the good intentions are still there. Old age and ill health have prevented our return to the villages and people we love, bur email, giffgaff, and zoom keep us in touch. Donations from family and friends help us to direct assistance to where it's needed and deserved.</p><p>We help adult women to gain education, up to degree level, we help to employ teachers, and we assist with medical expenses. Small small, perhaps, but well intentioned and we'll keep on as long as we can. Greetings to our friends, best wishes to you all.</p><p>Tom</p><p>GOES has provided 500 pairs of protective gloves for use in the village clinic at Mandinari. Many thanks to our local agent, K, for his help in this matter. We continue to help 'small small' - better than nothing!</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-87410320313663013512020-08-31T13:12:00.000+01:002020-08-31T13:12:12.430+01:00<p> GambiaGOES plods on</p><p><br /></p><p>Slowly. Our ages total 165years and some days it shows! The pandemic has slowed things down, a lot. We continue to support a small school in a village, and an excellent clinic in Mandinari. We also offer help occaisionally to families, usually for education and health issues. This is really how we started out, all tjose years ago. The big difference is that then we were able to travel out two or three times a year, stay for up to three weeks, and lodge in one of the villages and join in village life. We have no regrets - true, there was always more to be done, more oeople to be helped. We didn't, sadly, have a magic wand.</p><p>Nowadays, age is against up, as are the fees demanded by the travel insurance companies, some of which now refuse cover at any price. So, in a way, that's a benefit. For the last two years we have directed the money we would have spent on fares, hotels, and insurance into GOES. Because we cannot travel we no longer seek contributions from outside our family because we can no longer say 'Your money was given to Mrs X for her operation, or to the infant school at Y for a new roof' because we didn't actually see the money handed over. </p><p>If there is any risk it must be our risk, not yours.</p><p>Best wishes to all who have helped us, both here and there!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-61593644556896082582020-03-26T11:07:00.001+00:002020-03-26T11:07:48.013+00:00Was Bayba, is Small World FS, Still open!GOES has used Bayba (now Small World FS) for twenty year to send support to schools, hospitals, and village clinics in the Gambia. We have been delighted with the speed such transactions can be made, and never once has a payment gone astray. We are happy to read the assurance that this will continue in spite of the present difficulties. This is an extract from a letter from their CEO;<br />
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with the outbreak of COVID 19 (Corona Virus)<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> I want to reassure our customers that
Small World remains focused on ensuring that they can continue to send
money to their family, friends and loved ones.</span></strong></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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father to 3 children, I know how important it is to provide safety and
support to those close to us during these times and we are working hard
here at Small World to ensure the health and safety of our employees, communities
and their families.<br />
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Despite these uncertain times, Small World continues to remain open for
business - as a technology led business our teams can work remotely with
ease. <strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="https://smallworldfs.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=37ef9a9bba2875d4bb13b3114&id=bb4f510986&e=3f3713bafb" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #587f00; font-weight: normal;">SmallWorldfs.com</span></a></span></strong>
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worldwide, and globally we have a quarter of a million locations open
across 196 countries, bringing together an extensive network of offices,
agents, branches and payment points - although I do encourage you to
check <a href="https://smallworldfs.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=37ef9a9bba2875d4bb13b3114&id=ab4946c141&e=3f3713bafb" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #587f00;">www.smallworldfs.com</span></a> for any service
updates as some locations may have restricted opening times or temporary
closures if they are located close to outbreaks of COVID-19. We are
working closely with our partners around the world to minimise the impact
of any disruptions on our customers</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Explore <a href="http://email.futurelearn.com/mps2/c/4AA/SYoMAA/t.30d/LmYYBhtBSximovFCmHqTSg/h19/wl4AlRrr3ehWYr0LaiDsrNWzMr6j-2FbUN-2F3xHonQ0X3f0D-2Bos2ArYZrmMp6kD4G0yIiKNKvBTrDAIYDkB-2BQ-2B-2FiPX4BHzxL6ORVFZ7LPLJIYXREKT9sWlwbyIaZA4PyVYiqG-2BPTtRQa6OJeMcA7sLWToq8lNR2z8UvlXTEA1ASUNXkFnSEWtVh7sVfJMZLcyGfwQ0CGtTo-2BJ8YeGhmi6L297ghVP38RU5rDSHZi76pBoxn7Hhdc6zmGM83E5Z9nOQ0-2BOhQPTxMg6scrC-2FO5SJDxltkUIAlo2PiN85EfxSgyAY-3D/PHVD"><u><span style="color: #de00a5;">COVID-19</span></u></a> related topics and
collections<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<td style="background: #FAFAFA; padding: 7.5pt 30.0pt 7.5pt 30.0pt;">These free FutureLearn University courses may be of interest to medical workers in Sub Saharan Africa. There is no fee to pay, the courses are taught in English and are of high quality. An on-line forum enables students to exchange experiences, and other sources of information accompany each lecture.<br />
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set whilst isolating at home.</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/13640625-on-the-road-with-goes" style="color: #00635d; text-decoration-line: none;">On the road with GOES ...</a></h4>
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Where does your money go with GOES? Fair question. Let's imagine we're going to find out as we travel to some of the villages together.<br />We're staying at a small hotel on the Atlantic coast near Kotu village. Turn left out of the hotel and a ten minute walk takes you to the centre of the village. There are a few shops, a market, several hotels and that's it! Back to the hotel, keep going to the crossroads and we'll pick a taxi to Bakau, the next village along the coast. It's a good 20 minute jog but it's a hot day ... Bakau is a much larger fishing village with a fish market, a craft market, several hotels, large shops and banks and a crocodile pool! We've helped one of the large families here with housing, education, and health care. We might as well drop in for a brew of attaya (green tea). The children are anxious to show us their school reports and parents smile proudly ... while we're nearby we'll pop along to the Capital city, Banjul, and visit the hospital. We need to drop off supplies you've donated - medicines, bandages, catheters and a ream of computer paper.<br />Where next? Another taxi ride to see one of the schools we help in a suburb of Serrekunda. We drive across Denton Bridge which carries us across Oyster Creek, a wonderful place for bird watching, and eventually turn off the blacktop road onto a series of sand tracks which lead us to Bundung, where the school is. Here we have contributed to the running costs, bought paint, supplied school gates - numerous items which you've contributed to. The children greet us and sing! We tell a story but refrain from song!<br /> Back in the taxi - one of the yellow Mercedes which transport everything from people to goats and chickens and sheets of corrugated iron and ... everything that requires transporting, and mostly at the same time! Off again, back on the main road, past Abuko nature reserve on the right - must find time to visit one day - and Lamin Lodge Hotel on the left, on the bank of the mighty River Gambia, through Lamin village and turn left by the Taxi Centre on the road to Mandinari. We pass the Lower Basic School which has received a couple of dozen dictionaries given by you and carried free by Thomas Cook, plus a locally purchased sack of rice which the head teacher cooks so the children start the day with happy tummies - and stop outside the village clinic. We've had a long and happy relationship with this place. You'll remember helping to provide a clean water supply? See, there's the tap! This time we're bringing supplies for the medicine cupboard - stacks of paracetamol (for treatment of malaria) and rolls of bandages and a blood-pressure monitor.<br /> We also pay a quick visit to the nursery school next to the clinic and check that funds we donated last trip have been put to good use. More attaya, then a quick round of visits to friends GOES has helped over the years - school fees paid for children and adults (mainly women who missed out on formal education, house repairs funded - if cement is added to the home-made building blocks it can resist water damage for a much longer time. So many people here want us to stay and chat and drink attaya and share a meal that we promise to return in a couple of days and stay longer.<br /> Time to head back to the hotel in Kotu. Our driver, a long-time friend, mentions that his wife is preparing the evening meal and perhaps ... and the children would like to read to us? Of course - you don't mind, do you? You'll be welcome!<br /> It's much later when we return to the hotel and sit by the pool watching the bats chasing mosquitoes across the night sky. Hope you enjoyed the journey? What's that? Mandinari seems very like Malinding in the story books? I couldn't possibly comment!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-12452757791037037522020-01-29T16:41:00.001+00:002020-01-29T16:41:33.638+00:00We've come a long way!How it started - the first post.<br />
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"GambiaGOES" is the diary of a couple of oldies trying to set up a charity (Gambian Occasional Emergency Support) and struggling with the unfamiliar work of blogging, registering as a Charity, setting up a special bank account, raising funds, getting publicity, staying sane, fixing the printer, editing the newsletter ... resisting the temptation to pack it all in and buy that new car. Then we think of the pure joy on Lamin's face when he was accepted by the University, or of Ebou's relief when he received the cash to enable him to repair his mum's house before the rainy season, or - so many people who need occasional help.<br />
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'How will people know what you're doing if you don't tell them?' Good question. I'm rather shy about anything that says 'Look at me!' or in any way looks like boasting. I believe that the vast percentage of people are busy being kind to anyone who crosses their path and in doing so are probably doing ten times more than I can do. That was true at 09.39 hrs on the morning of the 29th of August 2007, when the first page of the blog took to the air, and it's still true today. Still the same car, still the same reluctance to go into details about what we do. I can justify this latter thought;what we do is very personal not only to us but also to the people we help. These people are very often stressed out by their worries about how to make ends meet, how to balance putting food on the table with paying medical bills or school fees for their children. I'm not going to make capital by identifying them and their problems. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-38050691658773609372019-11-30T20:36:00.001+00:002019-11-30T20:36:29.870+00:00November 2019 update
Well, there's a dull title.<br />
First, GOES: still marching on. Slowly - what do you expect - we have a
joint age 164 now! We haven't been travelling a great deal due to a problem
finding affordable travel insurance, but we have a reliable team in the
villages who keep an eye on what needs doing and making sure it gets done
properly!<br />
A school has been re-roofed, homemakers have been supplied with bags of
cement to weather-proof their walls. School fees and teachers’ wages have been
paid. GOES has covered medical expenses for several elderly people and children
– and covered the wedding expenses of a couple of friends.<br />
Funding has been sufficient; several friends have made regular
contributions, Gift Aid has refunded income directly to the GS bank account,
and we have tithed our income to the charity. <br />
The Malinding Village books bring in a small (tiny?) regular income. The two
‘dark novels’, Chasing Freedom Home, and Story’s End told the story of a dystopian
society so for the present work in progress I’ve chosen a more gentle word,
populated by good-natured ghosts. I’ll publish a few first-draft pages later.<br />
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Here it is - provisional title is <b>Ghost, writing? </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I'm
on a boat. This friend, Karen, lent m e her boat.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'Call
me Nameless' she said. 'It's a basic boat' she said. 'Simple, like
me. The less there is means there's less to go wrong. It's a boat. A
hull, a cabin roof, furniture from Ikea, and an engine. It's a proper
boat engine, strong as a horse, never goes wrong – there's fourteen
million of them in boats all over the world – perfect piece of
design. Can't go wrong. Send me a postcard from Runcorn. Don't worry,
the boat knows the way. Bon voyage.'</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What's
a postcard, I feel you asking. How should I know? There's something I
do know. The perfect engine, as used in zillions of boats all over
the world, won't start. Sorry, that's wrong too; it won't start
again. It started yesterday. Perfectly. So quiet you couldn't hear it
running. You can't hear it not running either. Silence all round.
Just like that library my dad bangs on about all the time. You’d
think silence would breed silence, wouldn't you?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Swans
breed swans. Cygnets. Swans in the future tense. Somebody said my dad
disliked swans. They attacked a canoe he was paddling across Hickling
Broad, forty years ago. I was about minus fifteen at the time,
waiting to be an egg or a cell or a seed. Perm any two of three and
you might get me. What's a Hickling anyway?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Anyway,
here I am. You might want to know where 'here' is. I'll tell you this
for free, you're not half as curious as I am. Let's look around; what
can I see? I can see water. The water is about thirty miles long and
forty feet wide, and three feet deep. I'm glad we're using Imperial
again, that metric stuff was fine for people who like counting on
their fingers and toes; there's no variety in it. There are trees,
assorted shapes and sizes. One tried to get into the boat yesterday;
big ugly thing, branches everywhere, loaded with gazillions of
imitation furry caterpillars. I hope they’re imitations. I'm not
Thomas a Kempis, what do I know? I know Nameless omitted to tell me
about invading trees. Or ignition keys; the sort of ignition keys
that get stuck in the lock and won't start the engine because really
it's the key to Nameless's house's front door. It's the master key,
switches all the computers and the washing machine and the swimming
pool filter and, oh, and everything that needs switching in her life.
Just not the boat; perhaps because it's broken in half and I don't
know where the other half is.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I
do know that we’re drifting along the canal. I do know that we’re
heading for a bridge hole and I can see that we’re going to miss
the hole and hit the bridge. The bridge should be all right, it’s
been there for two hundred years. I’m worried about the boat
because I’m on it. It’s fragile and I’m even fragiler. Look,
don’t worry, I survive. I live to think these thoughts, don’t I? </b></span></span>
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<![endif]-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-48850952159099105472019-09-25T21:00:00.000+01:002019-09-25T21:00:02.104+01:00Thomas Cook ltd fails.Thanks, Thomas Cook, for all the flights, more or less on time, for all
the help GOES received with generous extra baggage and all the donations
from staff at our local travel shop, and for the interest you showed in
our work. We'll miss you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-74949298023770640032019-09-13T18:05:00.000+01:002019-09-13T18:05:27.159+01:00Good Intentions :-) Greetings :-)<br />
<br />
Life has been busy for a few months - celebrating 60 years of marriage takes a while! We will continue to support the excellent clinic at Mandinari village on the south bank of the river, and contributing support for an equally excellent nursery school on the outskirts of Serekunda town. We haven't forgotten GOES but we have decided to modify our attempts to help everyone all the time!<br />
Our celebrations actually raised some very kind donations, which we used to restock the medecine cuboard at the clinic and replace some roofing at the school - you know who you are, thank you.<br />
<br />
Another time-occupier has been age-proofing the house and garden. Steps seem steeper these days, and walking can be a wobbly affair. We were refused a Blue Badge, which would have been helpful, but we now have a Rollator walking device and the local bus service is excellent.<br />
<br />
We've fitted grab rails at the doors and over the bath, and extra hand rails on the stairs. Next job is the replace the front and back doors - and we'll make some modifications to the back yard. We had fitted some wild flowers and butterfly bushes, and insect hotels --- we can't walk there now and birds have eaten all the apples and butterflies have feasted on the figs. Goblin Market - J loathed that poem long before we became a wilderness.ch<br />
<br />
The Malinding books, which I enjoyed writing (with the thought that they might help finance GOES) have proved to be unreadable failures (Proof? Nobody bought them), but the friends of GOES rallied round and helped support our tithes.<br />
<br />
Life in our eighties is good - we have slowed down, we're listening to the 5th Test Match on R4 as I write this - and I've put my glass of alcohol-free Pinot in some safe place somewhere - it's a small house but I manage to lose lots of things, including most of my socks, the Stone-age flint scraper that inspired part of the Girl on Wheels story, and my fountain pen. Still, I've got time to find them now. Did I celebrate discovering my treasured but mis-placed 1958 copy of The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry? Must find the faux-wine and celebrate ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-47768808724100306372019-04-20T11:49:00.001+01:002019-04-20T11:49:07.737+01:00Post-celebrations<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Fourteen days since
the public declaration of our diamond wedding. We’ve become
hermits, anchorites, even. Well, anti-social plague bearers. Joyce
arrived home after our celebrations and declared a state of cold.
Coughs, splutters, and sneezes. Oddly, Val was also afflicted. Me? I
don’t get colds, I just minister, saint-like, to the sufferers. Val
went home. Women. Men don’t get colds; a belief I fostered for
another week.
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J seemed a little
recovered by the following Sunday so we went for a drive and a
coffee. By the time we were home I had a slight scratchy feeling at
the back of my throat. By next morning I had a streaming, steaming,
cold. We boarded up the doors and windows, took to our bed, ordered
groceries and medication – well done Ocado and Brown’s Chemist.
We lived on just coconuts and fish from the sea (via the freezer),
and paracetamols. We planned adventures in weak, rattling voices. We
escaped once to post a letter, then stumbled back to bed.</div>
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A good neighbour,
believing we had gone abroad, cut the grass and put the bins out. The
boy delivered the papers and the milk and orange juice. We sneezed on
one another but never, not even once, did we sneeze on another human
being.
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We hope to venture
out next week into a better, cleaner, germ and Brexit free world.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-47659686730874720292019-04-07T16:51:00.003+01:002019-04-07T16:51:35.584+01:00I believe ...I originally posted this about four years ago. It still represents my beliefs. <br />
<br />
All religions/faiths/beliefs have their share of extremists/fanatics/thugs looking for an excuse to behave violently.<br />
All religions/faiths/beliefs have their share of wonderful, loving,
caring people who seek only to help their fellow human beings in any way
they can.<br />
Fortunately, the good people outnumber the evil ones ten million to one, or more.<br />
Sadly, the good people rarely appear in the headlines.<br />
I was born into a Christian family and attended a Christian school and
college. I was amazed and dismayed when I encountered people who called
themselves Christians but were intolerant of people who did not share
their extremist views. <br />
Rarely, if ever, is violence prescribed in Sacred Writings. Feed the
poor, care for the sick and elderly, help the stranger - respect one
another. We can only continue to set an example in our own lives: it can
be very difficult. Sadly, it seems impossible to reason with the
blinkered folk who believe that they are right, and are willing to
murder men, women and children who disagree with them.<br />
Our gentle friends in West Africa have fed us, shared their last cup of
rice with us, trusted us with their children, cared for us when we have
been sick, chatted to us about their beliefs and questioned us about
ours. Never once have we felt threatened. They have earned our love and
respect: I hope we have earned theirs.<br />
Je suis Charlie?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-12889724631627370092019-02-27T15:58:00.000+00:002019-03-01T10:32:21.712+00:00Gladstone's Library, Hawarden, North Wales.Gladstone's is the finest library in the world. Founded by a British Prime Minister, Mr W.E.Gladstone as a home for his collection of books. It has become a wonderful refuge for writers and readers from all over the World. Imagine a silent reading room, a lively dining room providing three good meals a day, constant coffee and cakes, a sitting room with a log fire and an honesty bar, peaceful gardens and thirty comfortable bedrooms - that's Gladstone's Library.<br />
It's fact, but it features in several works of fiction; I'll confess now, I considered burning it down in 'Chasing Freedom Home'. Not me, of course; Ed-Lamin who was imprisoned in the dungeon there after his capture by the PPP (People's Purity Party - the worst ever government ever to have gained power in the UK). Young Ed's mum and dad had spent part of their honeymoon staying in room 9, delighting in the atmosphere and eating cake. Twenty five years later their first son, Ed-Lamin, was a prisoner there.<br />
I'm delighted that common sense returned to the fictional electorate and the library remains to this day, a haven of peace in a peaceful world. I know this to be true - I'm working in the silent room, the sun is shining outside, I've had a walk round the garden and all's well with the world ... apart from Brexit.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-873912625822009322019-01-22T12:15:00.000+00:002019-01-22T12:15:00.627+00:00Extract from 'Chasing Freedom Home '<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I’m so scared. Hold me. Hold me. Tell me it’s going to be all right.’ She
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I don’t know what I am; I’m a mixture of excellencies; our baby will be as
beautiful and intelligent and fit as both of us put together. If anything had
been wrong it would have been detected long ago. Both your parents are in
bustling good health and humour – well, until they see me. My dad lived to a
ripe old age and my mum’s indestructible. Her granddad lived to be a hundred,
and that’s in a country with limited resources. Come on, let’s go for a drive
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disenchanted lovers. He had already rolled the fabric roof of the little yellow
car back in readiness for the trip. She settled herself in and allowed him to fuss
with a rug round her knees, and tolerated him checking that if he closed the
door it would not trap any part of her anatomy or clothing. Heavens, she longed
for him to accept she was not made of chocolate icing, likely to melt or
crumble or shatter if a breeze or a dragonfly or a speck of dust ventured too
near. He started the engine, double checked the mirrors, looked over both right
and left shoulders and pulled carefully out onto the deserted road. He glanced
at her. She was the loveliest, sexiest woman on the planet. She slipped her arm
across his shoulders as he drove, stroking the nape of his neck with one finger
and smiling to see him smile. He turned back to his chauffeuring with a wide
grin on his face. He drove carefully, avoided overtaking anything faster than a
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fresh white paintwork disgusted them, and the parcel of excrement that had been
flung through the broken window had them staring in frightened horror at one
another.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They stared at the
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Why? Who could do
this? What’s the point? What have we ever done to deserve this?’ They had no
answers. Jane reacted first.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jodie's Chariot </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hi, it's me, Jodie. Well, that's
how I start my tweets (Rachel showed me how) so that's how I'll start the book.
Almost thirty words already. Don't get it right, get it written, that's what
Karen said and I always do what teacher tells me. Quite often, anyway. See,
fifty words now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let's get the jargon out of the way first,
shall we? Then you can decide if it's worth your while to read on. OK? Right.
I'm 28 years old, IC3, T10-L1, 1.45m tall, 62kg. heavy. M.Sc., demographic
class C2, favourite vehicle is my custom built 6kg racing chair, and I play rugby to
relax. Let's move on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One hundred and nine words, and you already
know a fair bit about me. I reckon I can finish this book in under a thousand
words. Fifteen hundred tops. That photo of me on the front cover? Yes, a bit
out of date. I don't like any that's been taken of me since then. Twenty-one
years ago and I loved life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn't <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>know that, of course, I just got on with it.
School was good; I loved hearing stories and poems. I liked games and swimming
- we all learned to swim. Then it all went wrong: mum died. She'd been too busy
to go to the doctor about the pains in her chest. Then she dropped dead. Just
collapsed and died. Gone. I was sitting at the kitchen table and she was
fetching my dinner from the microwave. She sort of gasped, looked at me, tried
to speak. I sat there, thought it was some kind of joke for a moment. I grabbed
the phone and called 999. I tried to turn her over into the recovery position -
we'd learned about that in school - tried the kiss of life and the paramedics
had to drag me off her. I ran. That was all I could do. Just ran and ran and
ran. The police found me - that was where I first heard the IC3 bit.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span id="goog_11914951"></span><span id="goog_11914952"></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-28266864345026498372019-01-16T10:37:00.000+00:002019-01-16T12:07:42.669+00:00Fiction and fact?People who haven't quite got round to reading or buying my Malinding series of books ask 'Well, what exactly are they about?' Good question. I'll attempt an answer. First of all, they are not crime stories, although crime features in some of them. Not crime in the detective novel sense; crime by the State against individuals and minorities. I worry about people who avoid voting in elections; sometimes such apathy leads to the election of governments which do not care for the welfare of the poor, the homeless, the weak or the aged. Such governments tend to support only their own supporters, the wealthy, the influential, the aristocracy. But my books are only political by inference.<br />
'Do your characters make love?' Of course, they're human. And the odd one, thinking here of the Lord Protector, use sex, not love, as a weapon of control. He doesn't prosper.<br />
I try to write about the sort of people I might have as friends and neighbours. They may not be perfect, few of us are, but they are caring, loving, well intentioned people who sometimes get it wrong...<br />
I decided that the easiest way I could show you what I write is to publish here a few extracts from some of the ten books. Tasters, if you like. Hope you enjoy the taste; all income from the sale of the books goes to help people, real people, in real Gambian villages, who need real help with their health care or education. Malinding is not a real village, and for goodness sake don't try to follow the directions I suggest in some of the books; you might at best get very very wet and, at worst, make a crocodile very happy ...<br />
Many of the other places mentioned in the books are real, the wonderful range of food and drink is very real, as is the sunshine (and the rain). Most real of all is the welcome given to visitors; friends of a lifetime.<br />
Religion? None of my business. If you're a good, kind, considerate person that's all I need to know. That's how we try to live, and most of the fictional inhabitants of Malinding seem to manage it too.<br />
Kindness, that's the keyword. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-33675344944644230112019-01-14T12:09:00.000+00:002019-01-14T12:09:21.612+00:00Extract from Jodie Two (pre-publication)
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Family
meeting</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">It
was late. The biscuits were eaten, the coffee consumed, and the
flames from the logs in the firepit were reduced to golden embers.
Nobody wanted to break the atmosphere by standing up and declaring
bedtime. There was more to be spoken but the words seemed elusive.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Trust
Alison.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'How
do we know we're not robots?' </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Helen
struggled to sit up.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'How
do we know we're not what?'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'Not
robots.'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'Don't
be daft. We're human. Blood, bone, muscles, brains. Human stuff.
Trust me, I'm a nurse.' She snuggled back into my son's embrace.
Alison took the bait.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'Agreed,
we're made of components. Like a robot. All the bits and pieces
you've mentioned can be made, are being made, in laboratories. Look
at Jodie, repaired so she can walk again, look at my hand, perfect
working order. Repaired. Like a robot. We could all be high grade
semi-autonomous robots. Almost on a level with those computers down
in the basement.'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">I
had to join in.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'We
can switch those machines off any time we like. Just unplug them. Cut
off their life blood, 240 volts of it, and they are useless. Simple.
We're the master race.'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'Mum,
we're not. I tried. They aren't actually connected to any thing, any
more than we are. I checked. They're not fixed to the desks or walls
or cupboards or anything. They are just there, levitating, no wires,
no switches, no discernable power supply. They didn't like me
checking; they all flashed up warnings; there was no sound but I
could hear them, angry, inside my head. They told me to warn all of
you not to interfere with them, just go on as we are and there won't
be a problem.'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">This
time there was silence, a frightened, unbelieving silence. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'They
can read your thoughts. Our thoughts. Now. There're listening.' I
heard myself saying the words. Helen said, slowly,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'Ali,
you're one of them, aren't you? Just like Bill and Susan? They
couldn't have children so they adopted Jodie. They can re-model
people but they can't generate them? You say you've got two children,
Ali, but nobody's ever seen them. They don't exist, do they?'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'Helen,
you're the one of us most likely to be a robot. You work for Sir John
Thingy, the surgeon? Who else is likely to need a team of robots? Who
else needs a group of dedicated robots, robotically obeying his every
command, ideally placed to form relationships with the children of
every human whose had robotic surgery and feed the master robot
robotic feed-back? I rest my case.' Ali smiled, poured herself
another coffee.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'It's
not funny, folk.'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'People
used to scare one another with ghost stories.'</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">'There
you are; we're all robots so we tell robot ghost stories.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Burning
Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was Saturday. Ed had been
working at the school all week, spending some time in Ma’s class telling
stories, some time with Tamara inventing games for her reception class children
to play and spending rather more time chatting with the head teacher and the
caretaker about the ways of the world. The head teacher occupied the library,
stocked with hundreds of books donated to the school by well-intentioned
visitors. Sadly many of the books were unsuitable for such young children or,
in many cases, simply junk thrown out of other schools and hoarded by the
previous head. A small collection of German fashion Magazines rubbed shoulders
with a dog-eared book of Victorian traveller’s tales. Books missing their
covers and spines slumped dejectedly in a heap in one corner of the room,
nourishing invading mice. Time and termites had wrought havoc with bindings and
pages and many volumes had been reduced to scrap. So here was Ed on the
following day planning a sorting and a burning of the books. He made a pit in
the sandy soil of the school compound and lit a small fire of leaves and twigs.
He carried a heap of the most badly damaged volumes and started to rip out the
pages and feed them to the flames. He managed to burn perhaps a dozen when an
outraged cry rang in his ears. A group of village youths were running as fast
as they could across the compound towards him, shouting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Stop, stop, stop!” The largest boy stamped
out the fire and Ed was amazed to see tears in the boy’s eyes. “Ed, what do you
do?” Ed explained the reason for the fire, not best pleased to have his actions
questioned. He showed the damaged pages, explained the unsuitability of the
books and pointed out that the village had as yet no refuse collection. Hence
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sir,” said their spokesman, “Sir, we have no
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writer makes his sentences, where he places his punctuation, note what
adjectives and adverbs he uses and discuss his employment of tenses.” It was
Ed’s turn to gape. This eleven year old, the tears still wet on his face, was
teaching Ed a lesson he would remember for the rest of his life.</span></div>
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It was possibly the most stupid thing I had done in my life.
My father had shrugged his shoulders and said that Ebou was poor but honest and
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'Fatou, come sit. We are waiting to greet you.' I cursed my
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'Fatou Cham, I am happy to greet you. Come, sit, we will
talk.' He spoke English, of course he did, this man I had come to see and could
not see. He switched on his phone and the light guided me to a place opposite.
I knew the house well: a single small room, a door at either end, two broken
plastic chairs to balance on, a box for a table, a hole in the wall for a
window. And a hope in my heart for a different future. </div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Hope is a dangerous thing; it can wreck lives and
bring great unhappiness. There was a life waiting for me. I was sixteen years
old, I had received some schooling, and I could read and write and figure. My
father would soon find me a husband, I was healthy, I could conceive and give
life, God willing, to a dozen children. I could already cook and haggle in the
market, I could sell, I could clean and I already cared for my mother when she
was sick. Life was waiting for me. But. But I was here, in the dark, looking
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">GOES
(Gambian Occasional Emergency Support) is a micro charity* registered with HMRC
for Gift Aid (XT 7385)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Looking
back to Christmas 2017 when we were a little worried about the future of GOES,
a mocro charity Joyce and I have been running for about 12 years.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We were finding
it impossible, due to our interesting collection of age and medical conditions,
to find travel insurance at a price we could afford. To take my mind off the
worry I decided to be ill (!) and we cancelled our celebrations.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Recovering,
we decided to hand over the practical of work in The Gambia to a young local
man, K. He, with his family, lives in the village** where much of our
work goes on. K is familiar with the local schools, and the very busy local
clinic. We also operate in another fishing village, Bakau, and a suburb of the
busiest city, Serrekunda, where we support another nursery school.</span></div>
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taxi fares. He has been accepted as our representative by all the beneficiaries
and we’ve received positive feedback from them. Nearly twelve months on and
things seem to be going smoothly. We, with your help, have supported 15
students, mainly female, aged from 7 to 22, with funding towards their
education. A school has received a grant towards the cost of re-roofing, a
village clinic has been kept supplied with essential medical supplies, and an
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One of us is an historian. That’s why were up at half past
six the other morning. The train was at half past eight and we had to be on it.
We started to ring for taxis at half past seven. We could have had practically
every taxi in Warrington – at half past nine. A good neighbour who was taking
the day off work to have root canal surgery offered to drive us to the station.
It might take his mind off things …we caught the train. The ticket machine at
the station worked perfectly, at the third try. The young gentlemen sitting in
our pre-booked seats vacated them with a smile. The train was on time. We
arrived at the Lancaster University early enough to wander round and get lost.
We found our way back to the Ruskin Library and Research Centre. It’s an
exciting, dynamic structure, ship shaped, approached along a causeway through a
field of wildly waving grasses. Beautiful. Through the heavy double doors (less
of these later) and into the interestingly shaped lecture room. It’s ‘Y’
shaped. The audience sit in the arms of the Y, unable to see one another. The
lecturer stands at the joint of the arms and attempts to be heard by both sides
at the same time. Behind the lecturer is a huge window which gives a clear view
of buses entering the University grounds. No 1 seems to be popular. A working
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Coffee and very nice biscuits were in a cramped corner of
one of the arms by good humoured staff, as was an excellent lunch. Perhaps if
there had been room for a few tables lunch would have been even more enjoyable?
Certainly less enjoyable was the blocked lavatory I encountered after lunch. As
it appeared to be the only one available I called on my army training and
cleared it. The wash basins have very hot water. Thankfully.</div>
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The lectures were excellent, interesting, and mostly
audible. An announcement was made during the afternoon tea break. Storm Callum
had blown one of the heavy entrance doors off its hinges, and the entrance was
considered to be unsafe. We would therefore exit via the basement. We did. Our
taxi picked us up, and, apart from developing a fault with its brakes,
delivered us, on time, to the station. Being on time was unimportant because a
tree had fallen on the line north of Lancaster and or train arrived 32 minutes
late. We were assured that Virgin would refund our fares.</div>
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An interesting day, and we learned much about the extraction
of peat from the Cumbrian fells, and more about the problems of bracken for the
commoners of the region. We’re due to visit Whalley Abbey in the New Year.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-66228385315858731822018-10-08T14:36:00.001+01:002018-10-08T14:36:27.143+01:00Writers writing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, one writer thinking about writing ... we visited Gladstone's Library, at Hawarden near Chester, last weekend. Joyce runs a writing course for Vale Royal Writers there, twice a year. The Library is unique; Mr Gladstone, 4 times Prime Minister, left his collection of books for anyone to read. The library was built to accommodate the books and 28 bedrooms, a restaurant, and a chapel for the readers. The library is silent but the rest of the house rings to laughter and chatter. It's a good place to be. I managed to add a couple of thousand words to 'Jodie Two' the second book in the story of Jodie Sonko, orphan, para-athlete and politician. Girl on Wheels is the story of youth, Jodie Two sees her into a troubled middle age, and all money from the sale of these, and all the 'Malinding Village' books, goes to the Gambia to support students, mothers, old people, in schools and clinics. The most recent donations bought sacks of rice to be shared among the poor of a small village; the next will fill the medicine cupboard of a hard working village clinic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-1649706319787552172018-10-05T17:20:00.000+01:002018-10-05T17:20:07.935+01:00Back to the Blog :-) GOES seems to be working fairly well in its new slim -line form.<br />
We've sent money to the clinic to re-stock the drugs cupboard, we've supplied bags of rice for distribution to families in need, and we've paid school fees for the students we support.<br />
This all depends on trust, but then, so much in life does. I don't anticipate any problems, maybe naive, but if we don't trust one another what is the point?<br />
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Here I am, slaving away over a hot laptop, adding a few thousand more words to Jodie Two, the second volume of Jodie Sonko's autobiography. When it's published on Kindle (about Christmas 2018, I hope) all money from sales of the book, as with all the Malinding Village story books, will go to helping people, young and old, in Gambia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494341970738945732.post-65684633514695533872018-09-21T12:56:00.000+01:002018-09-21T12:56:11.727+01:00Very belated update :-( <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I miss the sounds of village life. I miss the scent of my favourite food cooking - many of you will know what that is! I miss sitting under the shade of the mango tree, chatting to friends, to people who have, over the course of many years, become as close as family to me.<br />
Last time I wrote in this blog I wondered what would become of GOES, now that we are probably unable to travel to Gambia again. That was four months ago. We have found that we can manage for the foreseeable future to run a restricted service, concentrating on the villages we have helped in the past, people we know already to be reliable and trustworthy. We regret that we cannot take on new clients.<br />
We will continue to make the same contributions to GOES funds, and, considering that we will sadly, not be spending our money on flights and hotels, perhaps increase our funding. Perhaps also I will be able to spend more time publicising the books I've written about Malinding Village, more money will flow into the bank from increased sales! (You have bought all of them, of course? Bless you!)<br />
We rely on the help of a few of our close Gambian friends to ensure that the money GOES donates to the schools, clinics, and students is wisely spent. If we find that it is being wasted or fraudulently used we will close the charity and donate any remaining funds to another charity elsewhere. It does seem to have worked reasonably well during the last four months, so, with fingers crossed, we'll continue 😎<br />
Best wishes to all of you,<br />
Tom and Joyce<br />
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