This year marks the fifth anniversary of the charity so we had a party to celebrate. The children enjoyed a sports day followed by a party full of singing and dressing up in their tribal outfits. However, the celebration was tinged with some sadness as our wonderful headteacher, Mrs Jallow, took the opportunity to announce […]
Our event at Stoke by Nayland was a wonderful success with £16,000 being raised for the charity. Rain threatened most of the day but it did hold off for the main part with some light showers first thing.
The evening guests were entertained by Ronald Edward “Ron” Harris known by the nickname “Chopper”, a former English footballer […]
This week the trustees and members of the Build a School in Gambia charity were completely overwhelmed having received a very generous donation of £5,000 for the second year running, from the charitable trust of the late Ruth Rendell. Giving to others was always very important to Ruth and so this gift has been made […]
Still enough time to enter a team in our Build a School in Gambia annual charity golf day May 19th at Stoke by Nayland, great fun day, only a couple of places left so msg or ring me asap on 07730309670 if interested.
Building works continue on schedule with our joint venture at Abba. We have 11 of our graduating children starting primary school this week. We wish them all the very best success at their new school.
Following the signing of our joint venture agreement with Abba Bi Lingual school last month we can inform you that our first BASIG graduates started primary school there on 1 August. As part of that agreement BASIG are to be funding the build of six additional classrooms, see images for quite impressive progress made in […]
It was a long week but BASIG finally have a Joint Venture Agreement signed that will see all of our nursery school graduates attending Abba Bi Lingual primary school through to Year 6!
We are so pleased at the charity that we continue to make such a positive impact on the area and the lives of […]
Well its that time of year again where we say goodbye to the next set of graduates. This year we have 11 who are leaving us and going on to the next stage. We have exciting news that we have set up a Joint Venture Agreement that will see all of our nursery school graduates attending […]
This week the trustees and members of the Build a School in Gambia charity were completely overwhelmed having received a very generous donation of £5,000 from the charitable trust of the late Ruth Rendell. As Baroness Rendell of Babergh she would completely agree with the education of young people in Africa being of vital importance […]
Our Trustee, Alan Seager went to the school on Friday 18 March just before the children broke up for Easter. The teachers and children alike all seemed in very high spirits and were pleased to see Alan.
Alan carried out a thorough inspection of the school both inside and out which was in very good condition. […]
