Updated
May 10, 2001

Gambia Tourist Support
May Picture Page

First published in May 2001, I lost this page in August 2002 by a dreaded file over write & only just discovered it when checking links recently

May with some of her Gambian family from Salikene on the North Bank of the river

May Rooney
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On a visit to the Lambai Nursery.


May's compound and site of the paper recycling project, she started in 1998

The workshop

Faye 'Finding'
Now an orphan since her grandmother died, We woukld like to provided a real home

Red
Children are great helpers when you are settling in to Gambia.
Red adopted May & May adopted Red.

Red's schooling is now sponsored by GTS members

May busy setting up NGO
May invited me to be a member of May's charity board. May now hopes to get some external support to complete her project and extend it to other villages

A sister
May is at her happiest making things (Like Paper and books) or being with her Gambian 'family'

Here with a sister from Salikene

We met May after reading about her in the Mirror

May agreed to help with our sponsoring program until her own project became established

Pondering the meaning of life inside her tiny house along side the paoerproject workshop.

Inside May's very simple and functional house

There are always kids around May
On one trip to her copound May snapped me with this little friend of hers

May is making a big difference in a small way. Taking worthless paper, employing 4 staff and turning it into beautifiul books. She is quietly inspiring and unassuming but with a stubborn determination which has allowed her to do what she has achieved in Gambia

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