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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