by Drink Baotic | Mar 8, 2019 | Africa Development, The Gambia
Today we are delighted to celebrate ALL of the amazing Women in our lives, not least for us the inspiring female co-operatives of rural Gambia, striving for #betterforbalance, this years theme. Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD19...
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...
by Drink Baotic | Jun 19, 2018 | Africa Development, Baobab Stories
In a paper published in the journal Nature Plants in June 2018, questioning Baobab sustainability, a causal link was made between the death of some very old baobab trees in southern Africa and climate change. This is something that’s happened over the last 12+...
