2010 Report

A version of this report with photos is here

The Gambia:
Tijani-Naqshbandi Schools:
Tanji: teachers’ salaries, 160 uniforms, books, chalk, stationery, text books, uniforms, monthly Naqshbandi Zikr with pupils, buckets, bicycle, 10 benches and tables, doors and windows repairs, toilet repair, teachers' chair, classroom paint

Farato: teachers’ salaries, 150 uniforms, books, chalk, textbooks, stationery,
building of well, building of wooden fence around the allotment, monthly Naqshbandi Zikr with pupils, lid for the hand well, 10 benches and tables, building repairs, paint, garden tools, seeds for vegetable plot
GNPC: office and secretary costs, disabled car
repair

Naqshbandis: Task Force for school check-ups, school vegetable gardens and making Zikr with pupils, laptop, sewing machine, 4 mats, turbans, 26 mosquito nets, transport (car maintenance) birth certificates and passports and visa applications for Al H.& BJ's trip to Lefke, netbook, external writer, printer, mixed Zikr, ladies' Zikr
Sheikh Nazim Mosque: water, 3 mats, painting
Wells, water: Farato school well with pump, water tank for ablution,
Mandina: surveillance of building new well
Yurunku: watersystem improvement
Yurunku: mud blocks for the Maqqam of El Hadj Ibrima Khalidou Ndiaye, 24 mosquito nets
Wheelchair Distribution: secretary salary, housing support, 6 wheelchairs
Kotu Craft Market Mosque: Ebou memorial Zikr bench repair, planting of 3 coconut trees, 12 mosquito nets
Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital: 24 kilo insulin
Appeal: for trip to Sheikh Nazim in Cyprus and passports for BJ and Al Hagie
Qurbani: 40 sheep
Rice: 8610 kg

Timbuktu, Mali:
Femmes Handicapees: 2100 kg rice, electric bill, 70 Qurbani
Traditional Healers: 850 kg rice, 13 Qurbani

Glastonbury:
Sufi Charity Shop 20 Magdalene Street. Mo-Sat 11-17, Sun 14-17

Zikrs:
Wednesday 11.30am ladies’ Zikr in private homes-
Thursday evenings: men's Zikr in private homes-
Monthly mixed Zikr with Sheikh Mikail Rose in the Abbey House
Mixed Zikr with Sheikh Shahid
Zikr with Sheikh Ahmad Dede in St.Margaret's Chapel
Events:
Mystical Musical Sufi Evening in the Assembly Rooms with Sheikh Hassan Dyck and the Caravan of Love
Workshop with Sheikh Hassan Dyck
Moment of Prayer on the 40th day of the passing of Sheikh Bukhari in the St. Margaret Chapel
Eid with Sheikh Shahid
Weekly opening of St Margaret's Chapel and Magdalene Almshouses in memory Pamela Bellars
Ramadan: Saturday,Tuesday and Thursday Night communal Tarawih Prayers in private homes.

2009 Report

The Gambia:-
Tanji Naqshbandi-Tijani School: teachers’ salaries, 40 uniforms, 10 tables & benches, building of porch, Tabaski money for teachers, Eid-ul-Fitr support, books, chalk, praying mats, bell, water connection repair
Farato Naqshbandi-Tijani School: teachers’ salaries, well repair, toilet repair, 20 tables & benches, 40 uniforms, office furniture, Tabaski money for teachers, Eid-ul-Fitr support, books, chalk, praying mats
Nema Nazir Naqshbandi-Tijani School: teachers’ salaries
Farato Mosque: floor, windows
GNPC: office and secretary costs, Tabaski money, 40 mosquito-nets, housing support, waiving of annual fee for membership of Paralympic Committee, 1 Qurbani Eid-ul-Fitr, 6 Qurbani Eid-ul-Adha
Sheikh Nazim’s Mosque: roof extension, painting and repairs, Sufi Books, water
Kotu Craft Market: reconstruction of Ebou Jammeh Zikr Bench, planting of memorial tree, Sufi Books
Qurbani: 66
Naqshbandis: Sufi Books, food supplies, Qurbani: 1 sheep & Maulud celebration, 8 Qurbani for Haji Nefi Bey, Housing support, 2 Qurbani Haji Nefi Bey, 3 Qurbani Eid-ul-Fitr,10 Qurbani, car repair and maintenance, petrol money, 2 bicycles, rice, founding of Task Force for school check-ups, school vegetable gardens and making Zikr with pupils
the needy: 27 Qurbani
Kembo Jeh Orphanage: well repair, 1 ton of rice, completion of well, 1000kg rice for school children, 1 Qurbani Eid-ul-Fitr
Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital: 80 doctors’ coats, 40 sphygmomanometers, 40 stethoscopes,11 000 sterile gloves, 40 000 swabs, 3.8 kg of insulin, IHPUK: Signing of the Gambia Health Alliance, 4 Qurbani Eid-ul-Fitr, 3 Qurbani Eid-ul-Adha, defibrillator
Old Yundum: Building of a well with pump for the mosque and school


Timbuktu:
Femmes Handicappees: 300 Euro, 7 Qurbani Eid-ul-Fitr, 600 kg of millet, 16 Qurbani Eid-ul-Adha
Traditional Healing Centre:100 Euro, 3 Qurbani Eid-ul-Fitr, 5 Qurbani Eid-ul-Adha


Glastonbury:
Sufi Charity Shop, 20 Magdalene Street. Open Mo-Sat 11-17, Sun 14-17, shop renovation: painting inside and outside and laying of new wooden floor, extended ceiling lights, fitting of awning
Talk by Ian Bradley in St.Mary’s Church Hall:King Arthur, Sacred Monarchy and Britain
Abbey House: Hakim Archuletta workshop: Being in the moment, monthly mixed Zikr with Sheikh Mikail Rose
Weekly Zikrs: Wednesday 11.30am ladies’ zikr in private homes
-Sunday 6pm mixed Zikr in St.Margaret’s Chapel
St Margaret’s Chapel: -Sunday 6pm mixed zikr-Tuesdays 12-2pm opening of the Chapel in memory of Pamela Bellars

Kenya: 3 Qurbani for the Maulid in Lamu

2008 Report

THE GAMBIA:

Schools:
Nema Nazir:
Salaries for teachers
Tabaski money for teachers
Farato:
Salaries for teachers
Tabaski money for teachers
40 uniforms
Tanji:
Salaries for teachers
Tabaski money for teachers
40 uniforms, Arabic school books
Lamin Kotu:
Qurbani Eid ul Adha: 6 sheep

Naqshbandi group:
Qurbani: Eid ul Fitr: 4 sheep
Qurbani Eid ul Adha: 5 sheep

Kembo Jay
Building of well
Handpump for well
175 mosquito nets

Al Kauthar Bookshop:
CDs and cassettes
New electricity connection installed

Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital:
Container sent with gauze, mosquito nets, rubber gloves, stethoscopes, sphygmanometers, doctors’ coats and insulin
Qurbani: Eid ul Fitr: 4 sheep
Qurbani Eid ul Adha: 5 sheep

Gambian Physically Disabled Association:
Salary for secretary and office running costs
Scholarship for further education of secretary
Annual membership fees for IPC and ASCOD
Qurbani Eid ul Adha: 8 sheep

TIMBUKTU:

Femmes Handicappees:
Qurbani: Eid ul Fitr: 5 sheep
Qurbani Eid ul Adha: 5 sheep

Traditional Healers:
Qurbani: Eid ul Fitr: 2 sheep
Qurbani Eid ul Adha 3 sheep

KENYA:

Water & Relief Foundation:
5 wheelchairs
5 mosquito nets
50 Sufi Books
Qurbani: Eid ul Fitr: 4 sheep
Qurbani Eid ul Adha: 15 sheep

Free Medical Camp in Lamu:
Travelpacks with 100kg medicine in joint venture with IHPUK taken and donated to more than 5000 patients

Lady of Mercy Orphanage:
building of well and instalment of water tank

GLASTONBURY:
Sufi Charity Shop
Weekly zikrs:
Sundays mixed zikr in St Margaret’s Chapel
Wednesdays ladies’ zikr in private homes
Talk/workshop at Abbey House with Hakim Archuletta
St. Margaret’s Chapel:
memorial service for Pamela Bellars,
Tuesdays 12-2 opening of the Chapel in her name
Meditation bench in her name.

2007 Report

THE GAMBIA:

Schools:
Nema Nazir:
Salaries for teachers
Tabaski money for teachers
Stationery, pens, books, chalk and paper materials for the whole year
Farato:
Salaries for teachers
Tabaski money for teachers
Stationery, pens, books, chalk and paper materials for the whole year
Tanji:
Salaries for teachers
Tabaski money for teachers
Stationery, pens, books, chalk and paper materials for the whole year
Lamin Kotu School:
Completion of toilets
40 benches and tables
English books
Completion of well: instalment of pump

Naqshbandi Group:
Qurban al Fitr: 6 sheep
Qurban al Adha: 4 sheep
Housing support

Spalding Mosque:
Electric bill and outside painting

Fruitsellers’ Association:
Seasonal blessing ceremony

Al Kauthar Naqshbandi Bookshop
Building, installation of electricity, cassette and copying facilities
Books

Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital:
300 mosquito nets
30 stethoscopes
30sphygmomanometers
glucometer
9000 surgical gloves
40000 gauze
Travel Pack worth £3000 in co operation with IHPUK
Qurban al Fitr: 3 sheep
Qurban al Adha: 4 sheep
20 stethoscopes
10 glasses
19 boxes paracetamol
17 tramadol hydrochloride
2 diclofemac sodium
1 ultrasound fracture healing system

Gambian Physically Disabled Association:
Salary for secretary and office running costs
Scholarship for Ebrima Colley advanced business school
Tabaski/Eid money

TIMBUKTU:

Femmes Handicappees:
Qurban al Fitr: 7 sheep
Qurban al Adha: 10 sheep
20 000 CFA for food supplies for each member. Total £630

Tuareg midwife in Tiriken:
300 Euro for medical equipment

Traditional Healers:
Building of Traditional Healing Centre with pharmacy, teaching room and clinic
Qurban al Fitr: 3 sheep
Qurban al Adha: 2 sheep

KENYA:

Water and Relief Foundation:
Qurban al Adha: 20 sheep

GLASTONBURY:
launch of website
running of Sufi Charity Shop
weekly zikrs:
Sundays mixed zikr in St Margaret’s Chapel
Wednesdays ladies’ zikr in private homes

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