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catiamike

catiamike

Germany

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September 30, 2008
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The solution needs time and time. The new schoolyear had began and Lamin sit at home and wait.

But he don't want wait longer. He found a other school. The SIFFOE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL. Now we must check the conditions. Maybe it is possible, but a direct money transfer from Germany to Gambia is expensive. If anybody want also help, I'm open for new ideas.

Anyone knows the SIFFOE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL?

July 5, 2008
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The first school year come to an end and we have the next problem.

Lamin has no school uniform and can't go to school since more than a month.  He wrote me: "I use to borrow a uniform from a friend of mine, he took them back from me and he is using them, I have not one that's why am not going to school."
Now I try to get contact to the headmaster. I asked him, if it is possible to pay the uniform from the school fee, or how much money he need. But I get no answer. Now I try to reach contact to the German help project team - no answer. Sometimes it is not easy to help.
It can't be, that Lamin don't go to school because of missing this uniform.
The time run and run. Lamin don't visit the school and I can't find a way to help. I fear, that we lose an entire school year if no conclusion Lamin gets.

17.09.2008
Good news. I got a information from the German project leader. In the moment is a colleague in Gambia and he will clarify the situation. When he is back, I will get the information  what we can do in the future, to help Lamin. I'm sure that we will find a solution.

01:02 PM Sep 15 2008

catiamike

catiamike
Germany

I got again no answer up today. Now I wrote an e-mail to an address which I found on the page from the German help project. (www.kinderdorf-bottrop-in-gambia.de) I hope to get there an answer.

You can write him an mail or talk with him on MSN. You can see the address on my MSN-profile.

Money is only one point of help. To organise the help is also difficult. 

Maybe "jasonsimms" can make a report about Lamin and the school in Gambia. It gives a bit public and some other persons spend a bit money or have talk with Lamin.

 

 

08:50 AM Sep 10 2008

195854255

195854255
China

i understand how you are feeling.  He has had a chance to go to school and can not be absent because an uniform.  Why there are still no answer from his headmaster? I think maybe he hasnt got your request. If he has, he would surely answer.

I dont know what i can do to help Lamin . Anyway, I believe that he would be a successful man with all these no matter help or wishes

February 1, 2008
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A member asked me: What's happening with Lamin meanwhile?
It is right. Since my first blog about Lamin is a bit out-of-date. I want to tell you guys how the story is going on.

I had read in the internet: In Gambia everything needs a bit longer. That is the truth. I have experienced it.

Yes, Lamin visited the new school, but it wasn't so easy to make it possible.

The first difficulty was that Lamin needed the transfer documents from his old school. It needs weeks until he can talk with the principal and get this important documents. My task was to find a way to send the money to Gambia. A normal transfer is too much expensive. Lamin's new school is a part of a German help project and these guys helped me to transfer the money to the director.

Then everything was clear and Lamin said: "I need shoes, a uniform, a bag and a bicycle." In this moment I was not sure if Lamin really wanted to visit the school.  But in the end he got a uniform and went to school by foot. And the important point is that he visited the school, but the life in Gambia is still difficult and a daily fight for future.


If anybody like to talk with Lamin, you can meet him on MSN. In a small internetcafe on the sunny side of black Africa.