Take the strain from the grain.

The village of Nema Fulla is located some 300 kilometres away from the capital city of Banjul. The Gambia. About a 4-hour drive. Quite often the far-reaching villages are overlooked when it comes to charitable help due to travelling time and distance. It is the family village of our much loved and greatly appreciated team member Amadou Mballow who has worked with us for 9 good years.

In 2021 we raised, through kind donations, enough money for the good folk of Nema Fulla to have access to Clean, Safe, Drinking Water by way of providing a solar borehole system.

I visited the village in February 2023. After a very warm welcome, the villagers were keen to show me the borehole and celebrate its existence and success.

I was amazed at how well-maintained it was. Being Sub- Saharan, it’s difficult to keep on top of all the dust, harsh sunlight and sometimes torrential rain and storms. I witnessed true appreciation and duty of care towards a commodity that was greatly needed and supplied by kind, charitable donations.

Nema Fulla relies on self-sufficiency. The hard-working people grow couscous /millet to sustain themselves. Planting in July and harvesting at the end of September.

Currently, individuals harvest the grain and store it.

Day by day they will collect enough grain for a meal and grind it by hand every day in a large, wooden, pestle and mortar.

The milling machine will be powered by diesel like the one in the picture as there is no electricity in the village and will be housed in a small building about 4m x4m. It will have a door and lock, solid base, ventilation windows and a roof.

Villagers of Nema Fulla and also surrounding villages can then come with their couscous /millet and, for a small fee, have it milled by machine.

I aim to make life a lot easier for the hard-working, persevering women of Nema Fulla, plus help them to create additional income for the village as a whole and to better their humble lives.

The plan. To raise the money to provide...

The milling machine.

The materials for the construction of the building.

Labour for the construction. (The villagers will make the building blocks themselves in the traditional way, using a mould. This will save on costs)

The first task is to raise enough money to start making the building blocks. This requires cement and sand. The blocks are individually moulded and then set to dry before they can be used. Ideally, we can get this done before the rains arrive, generally before the end of July.

The total amount required for the whole project is £2000.

Are you able to help Amadou and his family village again?

A big thank you from Amadou and his mum.

No donation is too small and any greatly appreciated.