Hello Pa Samba,
           I am very glad you brought this up.  It is true that each and
everyone of us should give back to our communities one way or the other.
Some of us may have been very fortunate back home going to school in Pajeros
and Mercedes Benzes and having our schooling taken care of.  We all know the
hard time that the people in The Gambia are experiencing now.  There are
families who cannot even provide more than one meal for their families, let
alone worry about paying school fees or clothing for their families.
         Back to the subject of giving back to the community.  We have a
Gambian Community here in Seattle and we are doing just this.  We are doing
exactly what you suggested in your posting.  We wanted to help kids back
home have a good Education and not to worry about who is going to pay for
it.  We had a drawing here to select two schools from which we would select
students to help.  We selected Bansang and Kaur and invited applications
from these kids. Our organization being very young could only sponsor one
kid from each school until they finish high school.  But, the applications
were so overwhelming and touching that about ten members of our association
decided to help out some of those kids from our own pockets.
       Just imagine a difference that you can make buy helping out the
unfortunate ones.  I hope Gambian Assocaitions all around the world would
take a good look at this.  I am positive there are people who have good
causes towards the development of our brothers and sisters in Gambia. As
Pasamba said and we all know it does not take much to help someone in Gambia
pay for their school and books.  It is a problem that I am sure we all can
tackle.  Thank you again Pasamba for suggesting this.
                                        Alfusainey Bah





>From: Pasamba Jow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: giving back to the community
>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:45:01 GMT
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>Members,                                                              After
>coming from the A.L.D, I have decided to challenge all Gambian
>organizations
>in the US to sponsor atleast two high school students ayear.Drawing lessons
>from the the tremendous efforts by Soffie ,Karamba etc to raise money for
>GAMSU ,i am convinced that this can be done. If twenty Gambians contibute
>$3o a year that may be enough to sponsor two kids .
>                                     We are aware of the horrible economic
>conditions of the Gambians back home.Many kids are in the streets today
>because their   parents cannot afford   school fees. Infact the organisers
>of the 4th could start it by raising funds during the programme.
>                         I hope Gambians will take up this challenge. A
>MIND
>IS A TREBBLE THING TO WASTE.
>       PASAMBA S. JOW 'COACH'
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