On 26 Feb 2001, at 16:15, Daddy Nying wrote: > 2. EDUCATION > Last year the government built 237 schools throughout > the country under IDA sponsoreship, through the medium of Gamworks agency. This figure about government building 237 schools is very misleading. I think you mean 237 class-room blocks because I have seen some of these. Whenever you have the chance, I think you should visit Panchang Basic Cycle School because they could use one of these buildings. In November we bought 5 packets of corrugated iron sheets and nails for them to have a roof for the only good building they had there. During my recent trip to The Gambia in November I was informed by many schools in region 5 (CRD) that they were lack of papers since the beginning of the school year in September. Imagine that a whole school was without a single sheet of paper from September to November. How do you expect teachers to prepare their lessons? Three of the schools were lucky because we had brought them more than 50.000 sheets of A4 paper and other school materials. I visited the regional Education Office in Jangjanbureh and was informed there that the only paper that education department supplied to schools was the class registers. Have you travelled from Farafenni to Janjanbureh recently? How is the condition of that road? Momodou Camara Copenhagen - Denmark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------