My friend, Jane, and I, are going volunteering at The Gunjur Project, in Gambia for a week during the middle of January 2017.

The project was set up to support local children, women, and families in the area, not only providing an education, but health support, and welfare. Teaching children to read, write, and explore their minds, but also teaching adults to grow vegetables to eat, look after their families and how to sustain themselves.

We are looking to raise some money to buy items to take with us that will help the community over their and hopefully ease their difficult lives.

We have already been buying some items, such as baby and toddler clothes, but we are also going to be buying the following items;

- pencils, coloured pencils, erasers, pencil sharpeners, rulers
- colouring books
- paper / scrapbooks
- face clothes / hand towels
- reusable / washable sanitary wear for the women
- balloons (great fun for the children)
- toothbrushes / toothpaste
- ladies underwear

The Gunjur Project website

http://thegunjurprojectgambia.net/index.html

EDIT: lots of other ladies came on the same trip, don't know all your names yet, but thank you so much for your and your friends donations. let's see if between us we can get £600!!!