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Pageant Ethical Gifts
- Did you know about
Pageant's Ethical Gifts Scheme?
(more details) You can give our
tokens for
any celebration,
providing help for schools, children, villagers and environmental
projects in The Gambia.
2 February 2012 - Science and Microscopy
Workshops Pageant's Science and Microscopy Workshops will be
starting in The Gambia in a few days time (see
details). Pippa is already there,
and the other members of the team are flying out soon. Chris
Robertson will be keeping us up to date with news by posting to the
Pageant News Blog. See his
first post now:
Day -4.
24 January 2012 - Artemisia Ambassador Pageant has appointed
Lamin Njie as
'Artemisia Ambassador'. Following training at Gambia's National
Agricultural Research Institute, he will tour The Gambia providing
training and support to help village communities grow and use their own
crops of Artemisia annua - a plant with proven anti-malarial activity.
(more about
the Artemisia Project)
19 December 2011 - Pageant AGM
Our next AGM will be held on Sunday 22nd January 2012.
All members are welcome. Please see our
members
page for details.
13 December 2011 - Letter of
Thanks - Pageant has received a letter from the Mr
Obasi, Headmaster of the Seventh Day Adventist School in
Serekunda, thanking us for receipt of donated classroom
furniture. (see
letter)
12 December 2011 - Motic
donates 50 microscopes for Microscopy Workshops -
The European arm of Chinese microscope manufacturer,
Motic, has made a very generous donation of 50
microscopes for use in Pageant's forthcoming Microscopy
Workshops in The Gambia.
(see
news item
and
details about the workshops)
7 December 2011 Updates:Goats Page
- four kids born to goats donated
by Pageant;
Sarah's Page
- Taps installed and working at Barra-Essau school;
Workshops Page
- More people to thank.
3 December 2011 - Get 'Find
and Remind' Toolbar and Pageant gets 50p - This week only. (details)
29 November 2011 - Microscopy
and Physics Workshops 2012
- Details about the
workshops to be held in February 2012 are now on this
Workshops page
.
18 November 2011 - Two New
Ethical Gifts - We have added two items to our list
- a Science Teaching Kit and a book Teaching
Practical Physics Anywhere. Both are used in our
highly successful Practical Physics Workshops. (see our
List of Gifts and see
below for details of our next workshops)
15 November 2011 - More
Pageant Workshops for 2012 - In February 2012,
Pageant will run both Microscopy and Practical Physics
Workshops for trainee science teachers in The Gambia.
The Microscopy Workshops will be funded using £3,185
from the Royal Microscopical Society Vice
Presidents’ Award 2011. (see this news page)
12 November 2011 - Shop Online
and Raise Money for Pageant - Easyfundraising is a
shopping directory with over 2000 online retailers on
its list. If you shop via Pageant's page, these
retailers make a donation of a percentage of the
purchase price to Pageant, but it doesn't cost you an
extra penny.
(see
further details)
4 November 2011 - Sarah Hayes
fundraising to bring water to Barra-Essau school
See
Sarah's webpage.
11 October 2011 - Sarah Hayes'
own account - Read Sarah's own account of her epic
day when she broke the Guinness World Record.
See
Sarah's webpage.
9 October 2011 - Sarah Hayes
beats Guinness World
Record - Sarah's time in the 2011 Chester
Marathon was 4hr 33min 59sec - a new record for
the fastest marathon dressed as a bottle (female).
Congratulations to Sarah on her incredible achievement.
See
Sarah's webpage
for more details.
2 October 2011 - Sarah Hayes gets approval
for the bottle - At last, Guinness World Records have approved
Sarah's bottle costume for her record attempt on the
fastest marathon dressed as a bottle (female). See
Sarah's webpage
for more details.
