The Genieri Collection
Registered in Scotland as Charity Number SC046573
The Gambia is poorer than we know.
Please help Jim and Sophie help the little ones.
Our Newsletters 2012 - How it all began
On our first trip to his village
up country with Sutay we had no idea that Genieri Collections would
be born four years later.
Sophie breakfasting with the village elders |
Some of Sutay’s family - his father, Sutay, Lamin(1st son), Sophie, Sutay’s sisters, the latest baby in the family |
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Reading story books |
Pounding rice for porridge |
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A trip
to the original Ladies Gardens with Lamin,
Baboucarr (2nd son)and the donkey cart.
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Early Learning with Foday |
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We also visited the
village day care centre and it was so basic compared with our
country’s nurseries. The headmaster Foday was loved and respected by
the children, but they were so short of everything.
“I even had to buy a
razor blade with my own money (to sharpen the pencils)” Foday told
us, and that’s when the story of our Genieri Collections charity
began. We vowed to come back with paper, pencils, notebooks and
pencil sharpeners, sometime in the future.
It was four years
before that happened, but we had told many of our friends and family
about the village and their day care centre’s needs, and started
collecting ‘stuff’ to take out with us in January 2016.