Hello you very nice person & thank you so much for looking at this.
Having revisited The Gambia again in Nov 2010 & written up The Project, its 'Go in March 2011', for 12 months, with your help. The trouble is I drink tea - gallons of it. I'm fine with a daily intake of rice & fish until I get some salad crops growing. However much you can spare me, it will help to keep me going, & enable me to make a difference and be a part of creating the FSF farm and Skills Centre. Please keep reading for more information on this project that will make a difference for so many vulnerable children and young people.
For more information on the charity and their project check out:
www.Fresh Start Foundation.org
Proposal for Fresh Start Foundation Skills Centre, The Gambia.
Summary:
The project will support young people who have moved away from Kwinella and the surrounding rural villages and are living in the cities with no stable accommodation, employment or training prospects.
Location 10 mins from airport, 30 mins from Banjul.
Plot size 63m x 220m.
The project site will comprise of:
- Boundary wall – breeze block construction to secure perimeter and contain the centre’s farm animals on site.
- Buildings – as per plan, comprising of classrooms/workrooms, administration and a residential area, consisting of 7 roundhouses accommodating 28 people. Building constructed from breeze block, individually made on site.
- Amenities: Water borehole, electrical supply, septic tank.
- Structures for construction:
- a. Solar Drier
- b. Hen House
- c. Duck House
- d. Raised Beds
- e. Movable Gate Hurdles
- f. Store room
- g. Shelter – roof/ table/ bench
- h. Compost bins
- i. Clay Oven
- Soil improvement – collect compost material, place in bins, add cow manure. Turn regularly and keep moist.
- Establish shade trees
- Lay water pipe to standpipes for seedbeds, plants and animals.
- Create pond for ducks.
- Establish Nursery Seed Beds with shade cover. Watering cans with hoses required to maintain moisture from stand pipes.
- Plant food crops for chickens/ducks/rams
- April – commence mango harvest + drying
Objective A
Establish skills and vocational training for 60 young people, to enable them to engage in employment and independence. The proposed target group of Street Children and Young People, under 18 years, will have the opportunity of learning horticultural and constructional skills. The orphan group will have access to the Fresh Start Centre, providing food, clean water, education and social welfare. This will comprise of 54 orphans.
- The fruit and vegetables will provide quality organic nutritional food for the workforce on a daily basis. To make the project sustainable, the focus will be to provide a ‘Salad Bar’ shop, centrally located, with fresh produce, providing funding for the project’s continuous development.
- Supply surrounding local schools with fruit and vegetables to increase the children’s nutrition levels.
- Free range chickens will provide eggs and meat, for marketing. The pilot scheme will use 500 locally sourced birds.
- Mangoes will be harvested and dried through an indirect solar drier, constructed on site, to be sold, sustaining F.S.F.development.
- A bakery will be established to supply fresh bread to the local population.
N.B. All sources of income will be used to sustain FSF’s project and provide scholarships.
Thank you very much for your time in reading this. Your help will keep me going. All good wishes, John
