2005 report:

I: The Gambia:

In our 3 schools we are employing 14 teachers and 1 gardener and paying them a monthly salary, also during the holidays and extra money for Eid.
All 380 pupils have been given exercise books, stationery, pens, rubbers and the teachers have received teaching materials for the year.

Tanji Haqqani School:
- The145 students have each had a new uniform made.
- A new lady teacher has been employed.
- The ruins of the old school have been built into an office and storage room for the teachers.
- The water has been connected.
- 3 teacher's tables and 10 desks and benches have been built, 33 more desks and benches are under construction.

Farato Haqqani School:
- The school has been registered.
- A well specialist has repaired the collapsed well by enforcing the wall with cement.
- 10 desks and benches and 3 teacher's tables have been built (30 more are under construction)
- The toilets are ready.
- A wudu place has been built.
- The floors and back wall have been repaired.
- New praying mats
- Textbooks
- School-wall drawing

Nema Nazir Haqqani School:
- The school has received a school sign
- water has been installed.
- A wudu place has been built.
- The vegetable garden of the pupils is developing wonderfully.
- A new planting area has been developed under the terrace.
- The school wall has been painted with oilpaint.
- The inside of the school is being painted
- Toilets and store room is being repaired
- New garden tools and seeds
- Nema Nazir received 11 sheep and 3 goats for Eid ul Adha 2005,

The Royal Victoria Hospital: Received:
- 3.8 kg insulin
- 9000 rubber examination/surgical gloves
- 40000 gauze swabs
- 75 mosquito-nets
- 45 sphygmomanometers
- 3 wheelchairs
- we helped to send 9 fully equipped ambulances from the NHS Sussex to the RVH
- 3 sheep and 1 goat for Eid ul Fitr 2005
- splints

The GPDSA/ Gambian Physically Disabled Sports Association
Have been helped with:
- setting up a workshop to build their own wheelchairs
- travelling expenses for disabled basketball game in Mauritania
- 20 wheelchairs
- 2 pairs of crutches
- Sufi books
- Laptop, printer, scanner
- Mobile phones
- 73 mosquito-nets
- rent for office and salary for Ebrima to be the secretary

Lamin Kotu:
- old well has been repaired
- building of new well with a pump in the new school
- building of new school: toilets, windows, floors, blackboards, doors, securing of walls, painting in and outside,

Kotu Craft Market Mosque:
- building of a rubbish disposal unit to contain the terrible spread of rubbish in front of the mosque

II: Timbuktu, Mali

Handicapped Ladies of Timboktoo:
- have been given £540.20 for the electricity of their workshop centre in Timbuktoo

Traditional Herbalists of Timboktoo:
- 6 sphygmomanometres
- 5 stethoscopes
- 3 thermometers

Report from 2004

Projects in The Gambia:

- in our three schools we are now employing 14 teachers.
- all 360 pupils have received stationery and school books for the coming year.
- the well in the Farato school has been completed.
- the pupils of the Farato school have received their uniforms.
- the toilets in the Farato school have been built.
- 33 desks and benches for the Farato school have been built and delivered.
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- the new school building of the Tanji school is complete, the extension still under
construction, as building works had to be halted during the rainy season.
- Tanji school has received new praying mats and 22 benches and tables.
- Tanji school has had a wall built around it with a secure iron gate.
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- Nema Nazir school has been painted.
- water facilities and wudu area in Nema Nazir are under construction.
- Nema Nazir pupils have received a new set of uniforms.
- Nema Nazir has received a complete set of garden equipment for vegetable/fruit growing classes.
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- The GPDSA Gambian Physically Disabled Sports Association have been helped financially four times, by cash being given to each player.
- we have bought a bicycle for their trainer, so that they can start marathon racing.
- we have paid their NGO registration fee so that they are an official recognised body now, and can start to applying for grants.
- we have paid their Paralympic yearly membership, dated back 3 years.
- we have given them money for travelling expenses for their partnership games in Senegal.
- we have helped them apply for a stadium for the disabled to be built by the US, by
getting permission for land use by the Mayor of Serekunda and filling in the
forms.
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- we have renewed the roof of the Kotu Craftmarket Mosque and put in a tiled floor.
- we have installed 5 fans in the Nema Nazir Mosque.
- We have distributed 270 mosquito nets in co-operation with the Royal Victoria
Hospital, brought medicine and teaching aids from the UK for the hospital.
- sent 13 wheelchairs and crutches.

Zahra Thyra Quensel /Trustee of Charity Healing Hearts