Wednesday 15 January 2014

9.1.14 Thursday. Tragedy in Berending



After a leisurely breakfast we were setting off to deliver some things to Nyofelleh school in the south of the country.  Kebba received a call from his village, Berending, and had to dash off as a small boy, a neighbour, had fallen down the well and needed to go to the clinic straight away.  We gave Kebba money for a taxi and off he went.  We drove down to Nyofelleh and delivered the goods donated by St. Peters school in Wakefield.  Ruth and John looked at some of the classrooms and the work being done, and then we visited the nursery school which is now part of the Lower Basic school, and took some chairs for the smaller children.  We left and drove back up the coast road to Batakonko clinic, where we met Kassima and delivered some blankets for new babies knitted by volunteers in the UK, and some files and paper to be used for record keeping.  There were no patients this morning, one lady had given birth by candlelight in the night and had been discharged before we arrived.  We left there and went on to Tanji village where we visited the museum for the first time.  This place, new to us, is divided into sections, wildlife of the Gambia, local crafts, and a traditional Mandinka village.  We all enjoyed the visit and spent a happy two hours here before moving on to the fishing village itself where we bought a butterfish for tea.  Sue and Graham joined us for tea and part of the evening.  Kebba still had not returned and so we retired not knowing the outcome of this mornings accident.

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