Updated
August 8, 2002
Post GameFair - Pre Gambia
The most successful CLA Gamefair keeps me well away from GTS duties, but all efforts are now on 2002/3
Adam will return to Gambia in early September to start the work of making the garden into a beautiful area for guests. We will feature a West African kebab and barbicue 'Afra' to extend the reputation GTS has as the best places to eat in the Kololi area.
GTS Members will be able to enjoy discount prices and the opportunity to visit the village project for just £7.50, while other visitors will be able to join GTS and take the trip for £20.
Further details to follow - We expect to start village trips during November 2002.
Adele a working volunteer will join Adam in mid Sept, we wish Adele a very warm welcome to GTS work
Comments please
GAMEFAIR 2002
126,000 visitors came to the biggest CLA GameFair ever. The grounds of
Broadlands House, Romsey, were transformed into a massive show ground
the size of a small town.
It takes the best part of 3 months to physically set the show up and take it back down again for just the 3 days that it is open to the public.
GAMBIA
Adam and I are now busy planning for next season in Gambia. This has been
the first full year GTS has run the restaurant and been able to employ
so many Gambians. Fatou our waitress has spent the rainey season back
at college polishing up her written English but insists on working voluntarily
in the evenings, which have been far busier that we ever expected.
For the first time since the launch of GTS in 1999 we have increased the membership charges to £12.50, this is solely due to inflation both in this country and in Gambia, where transport and fuel prices have affected the charity work of the organisation. Family membership has increased to £40 per year.
We hope this will not put people off joining GTS. ALL the membership money goes into the charity account in Gambia to support educational efforts in Gambia and to sponsor childrens education.
All of our administration money and staff wages for Gambian co-workers comes from the income GTS generates by providing tourist services and sales in the restaurant. GTS really is a ZERO admin cost organisation. No UK staff take wages, all work voluntarily, with the exception of May, who lives full time in Gambia and works so hard and diligently for GTS when not busy with her own paper recycling project.
FODAY in HOLLAND
I received a very brief email from Fo - saying he'd been to Germany and
was now back in Holland, so my concern for his safety was unwarrented.
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