Hey! Feel free to scroll past this I'd just be annoyed with myself if I didn't at least try this.
In December I'll be going back to Gambia (Western Africa) to continue my work with ARC helping some of the primary schools there. Please visit my Just Giving page (justgiving.com/katie-gambia13) to donate just a little money to ARC. They need it for building tools and materials, such as shovels, paint and bricks. I'll be sleeping on the floor in the library and paying the travel costs with my own money - also, money donated through Just Giving goes straight to the charity - so you don't need to worry about me being dishonest.
You can read my story about last year in the text box below;
I'm using a text box so that I don't take up your entire page :3
This is so that you get a better idea of what your money would be spent on.
Last year, I was part of a team of six working to build a market for the children to buy breakfast and lunch - the current market was a few broken tables under a tree, which was impossible to use during the rainy season. The structure had already been built, we just needed to concrete half of the floor and put in tables and chairs.
On the first day, we had to clear the floor of sand and dust. There was a LOT, so we needed shovels. However, there was only one shovel between the six of us. We used our feet and our hands, until the builders had eventually bought three new shovels.
We then had to make concrete by mixing the cement, rocks, sand and water. We would then shovel it into a wheelbarrow and pour it onto the floor.
The chairs and tables also had to be built from concrete, so we needed a lot of the 'ingredients'.
In other areas of the school, people were using sand paper to sand down the dirty/graffiti covered walls in old classrooms, and then repainting them with pictures representing phonics. Some of the boys also worked to repair broken desks, requiring workshop tools, wood, nails and stuff, and polish.
Please comment on my profile or something if you'd like to be updated or if you'd like to join me from the 13th to 21st of December, flying from Gatwick. I'm trying to think of a way to thank people who donate, so if you have any ideas, again please comment here or on my profile :)
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