by Drink Baotic | Feb 15, 2019 | Africa Development, The Gambia
Meeting UN WFP consultants the UN Gambian headquarters December 2018 (Part of the Gambia 2018 Tour Series) The Gambia’s primary school feeding has provided sustaining meals for children across the country for over 15 years. This is perhaps both a reflection on...
by Drink Baotic | Feb 2, 2019 | Africa Development, The Gambia
(Part of the Gambia 2018 Tour Series) Sustainable development. Travelling back to the Gambia is always emotional. I have said it is in many ways like a pilgrimage for me in how it re connects me to humanity, people, communities, my inner self as well as the...
by Drink Baotic | Sep 23, 2018 | Africa Development, Sport & Fitness, The Gambia
Preceding Baotic came the 2016 MegaMeterRun, connecting with the Gambian communities we have worked with over the years and raising funds that supported the development of Mansajang village female co-operative and benefit from projects reintroducing forgotten...
by Drink Baotic | Sep 23, 2018 | Africa Development, The Gambia
In 2008 as a VSO volunteer with Voluntary Services Overseas I (Paul) was living with Isatou and her family in the village of Mansajang, Upper River Region in rural Gambia. l started as an IT capacity builder working for the ministry of education, embedding the...
by Drink Baotic | Aug 12, 2018 | Africa Development, The Gambia
Today we thought we would kick off our Gambian features, and cover a little background information about our beloved Gambia, the smiling coast of West Africa! As my (Isatou’s) home country, and where Paul and I first met through Voluntary Services Overseas...
