Banyaka is located about ten kilometers north of Sanyang, our home base, and a little further east. It is a densely populated municipality with 9,000 inhabitants. Here we are installing two separate water installations: in Banyaka Gidda and Banyaka New Town. Both have a double tower with 2 tanks of 4000 liters, 15 taps and 1500 m of pipes.

 

 Banyaka Gidda

The Fuffor water installation is ready and will supply water to about 3,000 people.

After Jamwelly, our next large water installation will be located in Fuffor. Here too, there are two 4000 liter tanks on a 6.5 m high tower. The extra tower and water tank make the installation approximately 10% more expensive. We will have a lot of extra capacity for this.

We are installing our first larger water installation in Jamwelly. The double tower of 6.5 m will have two 4000 liter water tanks and 15 taps are spread throughout the village to distribute the water.

The water pump works with solar panels. After sunset the pump stops. The village then has to rely on the remaining water volume in the tanks. Due to the larger storage capacity, there is water for longer after sunset.

Painting of the water towers has started to better protect them against rust. Gammol provides the paint, young people from the villages paint.

 

We are putting the finishing touches to the new classrooms of the school in Faala.
The walls are plastered, painted and the floors tiled.

Work on the new school in Faala is progressing well. The rafters and windows are ready to install.
We hope to be ready by the start of the school year.

Thanks to Lotus Bakeries, Bolckmans and all other sponsors!

We are building a new nursery school in Falaa, a southern district of Sanyang. There will be 4 classrooms, a room for the teachers and management, a kitchen, storage space and sanitary facilities. Concrete blocks are made by hand, dried and then the masonry works start.

The water tank in Sohm has burst. Part of the tank broke off and fell on the solar panels. Fortunately no one was injured.
The cause is not clear. Possibly a construction defect in the tank. We will have to replace the tank and panels.

Mien and Liesbeth, two Flemish nurses, stay in the Gammol house for a few weeks. They teach local employees how to treat wounds with simple means.

Three classrooms of the Sanyang Nursery school will get a new floor.
With thanks to the students Elle, Fleur and Flore who collected money.

English is the official language in The Gambia. At home, children speak one of the local languages. They start early with English lessons in the nursery schools so that they can follow well in secondary education.

The students have been given a local name: Sally (Flore), Kaddy (Elle) and Bintou (Fleur).
You can follow them here: Blog Elle, Fleur en Flore

Five kilometers north of our previous well (in Niggie) is Sotokoi, just above the Finto Manares Forest Park.
Here comes our third water installation of this year. We are on a roll...