We are expanding the Team contributing to the Pageant News Blog to include people who can give us up to the minute news about what is happening in The Gambia. We welcome the five new team members below, and look forward to their regular postings on the blog. (more about our blog)
 

Lamin Jammeh is currently doing a computer maintenance course at GTMI, (Gambia Telecommunications & Multimedia Institute) in Banjul.

Sainey and Alhassan Darboe are twin brothers, both studying at Nusrat Senior Secondary School in Serekunda. They are both hoping to become journalists.

Lamin Kebbeh, has finished school now and has just started to do nursing, training at an up-country hospital at Mansa Konko, near Soma. We hope he can bring us news of events in up-country Gambia, far from the Banjul-Serekunda metropolis.

Bakary Gitteh is headmaster of Bakalarr Basic Cycle School, on the north bank of the Gambia River. Bakalarr is the first school that Pageant started to support, and Bakary has been the driving force behind the fantastic improvements at this school. As well as covering events at his school, we hope that he will report on the women's group and market at Sika and the Artemisia plantation trials.