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Pageant came into existence after a
holiday in The Gambia in 2001 by Ian and Pippa Howard. They met a hotel
guide who took them to the village of Bakalarr, on the north
bank of the Gambia River, to visit a school. (More about the first
visit)
After their return to the UK, Ian
and Pippa began to send materials and equipment to Bakalarr school, and
Pageant was established as a UK Charity in 2002, specifically to support
education and related projects in The Gambia.
Bakalarr has been the main focus of
Pageant's activities, but we have been slowly expanding activities to
schools in other villages 'up river' and also in and around the capital
Banjul. Our projects are listed in a series of linked pages listed below,
which also includes the topic of fundraising. Without your kind donations
and innovative fundraising efforts, Pageant could achieve very little.
There are also links to these pages in the floating menu on the right.
We have produced a
Schools Index
listing Gambian (and UK) schools which Pageant is associated with. This
includes those with major projects as detailed in the Projects pages, and
those which just have sponsored pupils. We have also produced some Google
Maps of The Gambia which show the exact location of many of the schools
which Pageant is associated with:
Make sure you select the 'Satellite'
view, and in many cases you can zoom in to see the actual buildings.
Please let us know
if we have got anything wrong.
The
spelling of Gambian place names varies, and many have entirely different
alternative names. We have used what we believe to be the most commonly
used versions. Other versions are listed as aka: Just for the record,
Banjul was once called Bathurst!
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