News
February 2010
Our patron, The Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Dame Mary Fagan, visited KK and Soma Lower Basic School. She was accompanied by Prof Joy Carter, Vice Chancellor of Winchester University, and the British High Commissioner, Phil Simkinson.
January 2010
The refurbishment of Kaira Konko bedrooms is now complete... photos to come soon. This is a fantastic achievement, partly funded by the sale of donated T shirts.
Now is an ideal time to visit KK and stay in these fantastic facilities.
December/January 2010
George Devine led a party of 25 Explorers on a 4week Expedition camping at Jiroff to rebuild a classroom that the original HSX expedition had built 20years ago. They converted the classsroom to teacher accommodation, which is needed to attract teachers to rural primary schools. The trip was a great success. A full report coming soon.........
November 2009
The refurbishment of the rooms at Kaira Konko lodge is the next big project and this is now started
Marion Christmas and other leaders are heading out to the Gambia at the start of December to assist with the works... if Kinteh will let them.
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Refurbishment of the Lodge is partially completed
The hall at Kaira Konko has been recently refurbished, the roof has been raised and steel trussed used to replace termite ridden rum palm trusses. This has meant that the columns have been removed and the space is lovely open. The floor has been raised to avoid flooding in the rainy season and tiled beautifully.
Fundraising is now well underway to refurbish the bedrooms at Kaira Konko to improve the bathroom so that more guests will stay bringing income to support the project.
May 2009 note from Marion
We have now dispatched over 10,000 t shirts to Kinteh. Kinteh says lots of youngsters are buying a few and selling them on making a few dalasi for their families so many people are seeing rice in their bowl as a result of the generosity of 3 mobile. He rang to ask if we could ship three more pallets urgently as he is taking orders.
He has been buying in materials to start the refurbishment of the Kaira Konko bedrooms and hopes to start raising the roof at KK next week. The idea being to have the new roof on before the rainy season so the interior works can be done during the rains.
January 2009 Hampshire Explorer Scout Expedition
During the New Forest North Explorer Scout expedition in January 2009 one of the projects for the Explorers was to design and build a childrens playground.
See the Expeditions page for more details
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