F.R.O.G.S - Sept 2009
Here you can see children in The Gambia enjoying playing with Culture Kids toys and musical instruments. Any tired looking equipment is taken to The Gambia by volunteers from F.R.O.G.S
The money raised at a Culture Kids event this year helped to pay for this fence to be put up to keep the children safe at nursery school from wild animals and traffic.
Race for Life 2009
I did the race for life on 19th July 2009 with some friends and managed to raise £370.49 for Cancer research.
Red Nose Day 2009
For Red nose day this year I decided to dress up as Pink Panther. I worked all day Thursday and all day Friday dressed as The Pink Panther and even went out to dinner! The experience was very hot but such fun! I was stopped in the street and everyone who passed wanted to chat. I raised over £148.21
F.R.O.G.S
My husband and I visited The Gambia in October 2007. While we were there we happened to meet Sally Reader and her husband Malcolm, two people who have devoted their lives to helping Gambian children through their charity, F.R.O.G.S. (Friends Of Gambian Schools). Touched by the children we saw and the work that Sally, Malcolm and their fellow F.R.O.G.S. devotees had been doing, we decided to make it the official Culture Kids sponsored charity. To date, the money we’ve raised through Culture Kids events has been enough to pay for two new blocks of toilets and a staff toilet at a school in the Gambian capital of Banjul, tables and chairs for a pre-school, a playground and equipment for another school and we are currently raising money to fund a project to build a safe play area in the grounds of a primary school. If you are interested in making a donation or becoming a member of F.R.O.G.S. (at a cost of £5.00 per family, per year) please visit:
http://www.friendsofgambianschools.co.uk.
David and Barbara, two other members of the F.R.O.G.S. team, run a program in which you are able to sponsor a Gambian child. This costs from as little as £40.00 per year and enables your sponsored child to go to school, pays for two school uniforms, their books and stationary and lunch on most days. It’s unbelievable to think that an amount that is of so little consequence to us in the West can be used to give these African children a great deal. If you are interested in sponsoring a child contact David and Barbara:
dave-barb@horndon44.fsnet.co.uk