Updated
June 19, 2004
Bakoteh - A school in need
GTS started this project in April 2003 - the school was officially opened in January 2004, GTS is still looking for sponsors to fund the 80 places.
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From 1st May 2003 half of every membership subscription will go to the GTS Bakoteh School Building fund, until the school is built.
Any one off donations made to this project will help reach the target quicker.
GTS in Gambia will start Support Bakoteh School visits to get the sponsorship to pay the teachers and provide the teaching materials.
A donation of £100 from Eve Fuller in Stafford will start the fund at 4200 dalasi
Check the Bakoteh Target to see how we are doing.
Please join GTS or make a specific donation to the GTS Bakoteh school project
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In early April 2003 Kabs sent me some photos of a school saying "This school definitely needs our support Fra" I asked him for details, this is what he sent
LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL - The project is located in Bakoteh village and more specicaly in Bakoteh central.
The village is located in the Kanifing Municipallity, Greater Banjul area.
The school has two class rooms and office with a student roll of 80 students. It has a total number of 3 staff two teachers and one teacher incharge. Bakoteh as a village has a population of about ten thousand people and children under the age of seven constitute 15% of the population.
The initial idea to build a nursey school for the community was first conceried by few member of the community. The rational behind this is to provide an affordable and quality education for the children of the poor parents. Funds were raised by those member through their own contribution, no other contribution was received.
The Land and building is 100% community
owned and no rent is paid either.
The following activities would be reguired to make it fully operational.
- raising of the building wall
- Roofing of the structure
- Ceilling of the two classrooms and office
- Plastering of the wall
- Concretion of the floor
- Painting of the structure
- Provision of Desks + chairs
COSTS
- 30 bags of cement @ 1 for 145D = 4350D
- 2 trips of sand @1 for 1400d = 2800D
- 50 roofing stick (palm roft )40d = 2000D
- 12 packate of roofing corregate @ 1 for 1000 = 12000D
- 4 water paint 20 litter drum @ 300d = 1120D
- Desks & chairs for 80 studens = 16000D
- THE STUDENTS HAVE TO WORK ON THE WOODEN DESKS AND CHAIRS.
- The wages for the 3 teachers per month is 500D each
The total cost of construction is 38270 dalasi - around £1000
The wages bill for the teachers for 1 year is 18000 dalasi less than £500
After the initial building it will cost around £12.50 a year for each child to have free education in their own village school, It is just such a small amount to make this school self sufficient.
Once built GTS would use GTS Bakoteh as a destination school for visits and give visitors the opportunity to sponsor one place to provide the on going running costs.
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