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Spider at The Falinkuta Village Academy
We need your help - "Our Story & Our Appeal"
The Beryl & Winford Manning Foundation have several Projects in progress involving a number of schools in The Gambia but we’re focusing on two schools at the moment that need the most help.The Falinkuta Village Academy based in Jambanjelly and run by Alagie Camara (AKA Spider) and St Bridgets Nursery run by Maria Beyai.
ST BRIDGET’S NURSERY SCHOOL APPEAL
St Bridget’s nursery school is located in Sanyanhaa village in the west coast region.
St Bridget’s Nursery School needs help to repair the building as it has been neglected and the condition of the toilets the children have to use would break anyone’s heart. The roof is leaking and we need to buy corrugated iron to weatherproof it through the rainy season.
WE also need help with school teaching materials, books pencils pens rulers calculators rubbers laptops etc.
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The Falinkuta Village Academy Project is one of the projects The Beryl & Winford Manning Foundation has been supporting for the past seven years along side Spider the director of the Project.
This Project is a wholistic approach in which Spider has created an Early Childhood Development Program plus a Youth Skill Project and an Adult Literacy Centre. He has also created space for entertainment and recreational Facilities for the whole community, making it more of a Multi purpose Hub for all ages to come learn and enjoy. Falinkunta Village Academy was founded to make multilingual high-quality education accessible to as many children as possible from unprivileged, developing backgrounds and rural communities with the aim of preparing them to make the most of the future challenges they will encounter in life.
Children are our future and by equipping them with as many of the skills needed in the community it will ensure that their communities can thrive and progress in the modern world. We want our children to learn lifelong functional skills that will not only preserve the native building and farming skills of the communities but enhance those abilities thereby increasing productivity and reduce future poverty. This will be more far reaching than just the Academy providing the foundations that will benefit children and communities for many generations to come.
Of course all kinds of donations are appreciated. We welcome all teaching and learning materials for early childhood education especially computers and education software’s for younger children, we have already allocated space at the Accademy for a computer lab.
A school van would be more than helpful and solve many transportation problems. Donations in cash or kind made to the academy will be issued with a receipt and a report of what your donation was used for.
Here are just some of the skills we will be teaching.
- Social and financial education
- Keyboard mastery and IT skills
- Agricultural production, gardening, crop, cereal and animal husbandry - Repair and maintenance
- Caring and use of farm traction and machinery
- Home economics, sewing, knitting, soap making
- Yoga (spiritual cultivation )
- Sport and entertainment
- Cooking and catering
- Carpentry, house repairer, maintenance, and painting
Pupils will have their plot as model young farmers whose produce will be on display during terminal agricultural shows to be organised and managed by the academy.
The Academy currently has facilities only for nursery school children and for a maximum of 90 children. We require heavy investment in buildings and equipment to advance to the next stages to give the exceptional standards we are striving for thereby giving our children the best start in education and promising careers.
We are currently forced to accept only concessionary fees that are both not sustainable and inadequate for us to progress. The parents in the local developing communities are not in the position to be able to afford the minimum required fees to run the facility to a quality standard.
The Academy intends to involve the parents at every stage and organise regular parent workshops including information on child protection and good parenting so as to maximise the positivity we intend to in-still to the children.
We hope you see our vision and would like to become involved sharing our passion for this innovative education model bridging. If you share our vision it would be of the utmost a pleasure for us a partner with you and realise our dreams for the children giving them a promising and healthy future. Details of all the needy children in the community are available from the academy for potential sponsors to choose from.
Other ways you could help The Falinkuta Village Academy Project.
1.Sponsor any number of needy children by settling their annual fees with the Academy for as long as you can.
The Academy will facilitate regular correspondence between you and the child / children you sponsor and their families unless you indicate you are not interested in such correspondence.
2. For just £20 a month you can help make such a difference to one child to get good quality education plus one nutritional meal each school day that will provide healthy growth in mind and body.
3. Pay full or contribute towards the annual salary of a teacher in the subject of your choice, ie; a language teacher such as African, English, Arabic or Spanish, or a mathematics teacher may be appealing to you.
Payers of a teacher’s full annual salary will be granted ‘Support Partner’ status by the academy. (A teacher’s annual salary at Falinkunta Village Academy for 2022/2023 is D60,000 around £800
4. Pay for or contribute towards the construction cost of a school building, an architect design and cost will be provided to anyone who shows interest in funding a building at Falinkunta Village Academy.
5.Pay for in full or contribute towards meeting the cost of such activities of the academy as supplementary feeding, teachers training and extra curriculum activity of your choice.
All sponsor donors will receive our newsletters with pictures keeping everyone up to date with the progress and reports of how donations are being used. Graduates from our institution should be both highly employable and more inclined to become job creators. Falinkunta Village Academy graduates will be well prepared not only to become the most readily employable of their time but also be perfectly placed to become job creators and may even decide to work within the Academy and carry on with the good work.
We thank you for taking the time to read this and in advance for any donation you choose to make. If you would like a more in depth information on the Academy or have any specific questions please do not hesitate to get in touch with us details below.
You can donate through this Just giving page or If you would like to donate directly to Spider his details are below.
The Beryl & Winford Manning Foundation would like to thank all our donators for their time in reading our appeal and for your kind generosity.
FALIN KUTA VILLAGE ACADEMY
KOMBO SOUTH DISTRICT
WEST COAST REGION
MOTTO: Anuk Ausar
Email. fvajbj@yahoo.com
(+220) 7073617 / 9940366
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The Beryl and Winford Manning Foundation would like to thank everyone for their kind donations.
Our appeal for a new roof for St Bridget's School and for the children's toilets.
Two of our dedicated Teachers from The St Bridget's Nursery School.
This is the village we are helping. Chiro Jambanjelly, Kombo South Gambia.
Anything you can donate will be received with love and gratitude and you can be assured you will be helping a really worthy cause.
