Month: June 2017

We have mentioned our annual container in previous blogs, take a look there may be something interesting hidden there.  This blog is focused on what the annual container achieves. Not just for your sponsored kids, but for schools, villages, communities, medical centres and individuals in need. The annual general container

Week 3
You’d think that a month of not eating or drinking would drag. Each waking moment being like a diet from hell…your mind convincing you that there is so many hours, minutes and seconds until you can eat or more importantly here, drink. Maybe it does if you’re not

Before I moved in Africa in 2011, the only people close to me who I’d lost (passed away- not wandered off in a drunken haze, because there were plenty of those) were my grandparents. Then my childhood friends’ mother who I was close to. That’s it. Since moving here, I

Week 2
Since I moved to The Gambia, an Islamic dominated country people have always asked me if I would revert to Islam. *Muslims call it revert rather than convert as they believe everyone is born a Muslim and Islam is the one true religion. *
My answer has always

I’d like to write about the Gambian flora and fauna. However, as all our “big 5” were extinct by the end of the slave trade, it is a depressing tale. Hippos still inhabit the river Gambia along with the critically endangered Manatee. There are 100+ crocodiles held at Kachikally crocodile

Week 1:
Muslims follow the 5 pillars of Islam: Swarm: Fasting during Ramadan. Hajj: Pilgrimage to Mecca. Zakat: Giving to the poor. Salat: 5 daily prayers and Shalada: Belief in one God. Ramadan follows the 9 month Islamic calender and is based on the sighting of the new moon. Like