Leon, Orlando, Samantha, Pam, Marjorie, Paula, Darren, Samuel, Matthew, Yasmin, Sarai, Hermina, Lamin, Tyra, Jacob, Brenda, Samantha, Samantha, Shennelle, and missing from photo is Avril
Sarai handing out gifts to 180 children at Pirang Nursery School
Diary of Locations Visited
Friday, 6th Arrived in Africa 7th All members visited the storage in Brikama to arrange distribution for the first week 8th Rest day 9th Visited Pirang Nursery School and Pirang Village giving away family packs, boxes of books and toys for over 300 children and giving away at random in the village also in the streets. 10th Faraba Banta Day Care Nursery School, Faraba Village, Women Rice farmers in the Fields, Brikama Library, Jambajally, Serrekunda and Brikama Villages. Gave books to the local library. Gifts of clothes, trade tools to the rice farmers and village people. 11th Meeting with Minister of Education, gave gifts of clothes, toys and books to 1250 children in Sanyang Lower Basic School and Gave tools, books, toys and other gifts away at random to and from Sanyang and Gunjur village. 12th Rest day 13th Visited storage in Brikama to arrange distribution for final week 14th Gave gifts to Manduwar, Penyeng, Busra, Dimbaya and Barakisa Villages. 15th Rest Day 16th Visited Roots Tour and distributed gifts at Pat Van Cool Nursery School in Barra 17th No distribution 18th Giving first aid material, bedding and other gifts to sick children. Meeting the management staff of Brikama Hospital three departments, Health Clinic, Main Hospital and Eye Clinic 19th Rest Day 20th Departed from Africa.
Samantha said "Lean on me"
Donation Donated gifts from 1997 to 2002 taken to Africa valued at £136,000.00, for setting up and distributing gifts £26,960.00, finance raised through donations, fund raising and loans.
Hearts To Africa Charity Objective
To relieve poverty by the provision and distribution of donated clothing and other goods to persons in need in Africa.
Main achievements All HTA oversea trips have been very successful and we will continue to expand our work.
We have been continually trying to expand our networking with other charities and the public sector. Although progress has been very slow in this area.
We will be reviewing all our policies for the future, to include continual increase in fund raising and donations as this has been in slow decline.
An increase in membership should assist in providing a wider platform to project HTA.
Schools and Libraries Donations in the form of stationery, toys, books and other learning material have been donated to schools and libraries on each of our trips to date.
In order to identify further schools in need and expand the number of schools benefiting from our work, links have been established with the Education Minister.
Villages The villages in the Gambia are experiencing poverty not starvation. Therefore, the distributions of gifts to villages visited to date have assisted many families within their compounds.
Once further schools have been identified we can then assist more villages in these localities.
Hospitals and Clinics/Health Centres The availability of basic necessities such as bandages, syringes, plasters etc are in short supply. The volume of medical aid which HTA can provide is limited, however simple first aid items and materials to aid pregnant mothers have been gratefully received. Items including toys, curtains, bed linen etc have been donated and we shall continue to identify any other items which HTA can provide of use to these establishments.
UNFORTUNATELY WE DID NOT HAVE A SPONSOR FOR 2002 WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR 2003 PLEASE SUPPORT US!!
Donations Would you like to make a donation to Hearts to Africa? Cheques made payable to Hearts to Africa. Hearts to Africa, P O Box 32300, London, SW17 0FR Bank details as follows: Barclays Bank Sort code: 20-21-78 Account number: 60702048
Hearts to Africa Facts
We have a practical and educational function and offer a flexible and caring approach to those who are most needy. During our trips we believe that we make a valuable contribution.
