By Ismaila Sonko
The Orphan Child, a UK based charitable organization has vowed to extend its tentacles across the length and breadth of country with the view to improving learning and water provision in the country with a clear emphasizes on the needs and aspirations of orphans.
On March 15th, 2019 the organization inaugurated
a four classroom blocks, a water borehole, toilets and sanitary points at a Madarasa School in Busumbala Village, Kombo North.
The organization also laid the foundation stone for the construction of an extra classroom block that officials says will ease the placement of teeming number of students who have shown interest to register at the school.
“A friend of mine introduces me to a project that they plans to do in The Gambia through a charity whether I have an interest and I accepted to get involved through The Orphan Child UK Charity to help boast education and water sanitation in the country. Am happy that today the charity is inaugurating a Madarasa (Islamic School), a borehole and laying of a foundation stone for a new classroom block,” said Iftkhar Hossain member of Orphan Child UK Charity as he disclosed his reason of joining such a worthwhile venture.
According to him, the project have dug twenty five water wells in the country, boreholes and a Madarasa for orphan children and less privilege people, adding that plans are far afoot to commence a construction of a new Madarasa for the children of Bwaim as well as construct more wells and boreholes in the country.
“It’s very nice to note that you are making a difference in other people’s lives, this is really humbling and an opportunity to doing our bids towards the improvement of mankind in this earth because once you die is over you cannot make any difference. This is all the good reasons why we took it upon ourselves to build orphanages across the world which we have started and very hopefully our next orphanage will be built in The Gambia in the very near future,” said Hossain.
Hossain continues to disclosed that his project has spent about fifteen thousand pounds in its efforts to making the project fruitful, noting that three thousand pound have been utilized on the construction of a borehole at the Madarasa in a bid to making water accessible to both the school and the local neighborhood.
Speaking on behalf of the community of Busumbala, Hon. Saikouba Jarju, National Assembly Member for the area commended the sponsors for choosing his constituency for such a worthwhile venture, adding that education and water are cardinal component of the National Development Plan (NDP) and hence the provision of such facilities will go a long way to complementing government’s efforts in the realization of its development targets.
Hon. Jarju urged the beneficiaries to put the school into good use by sending their kids to the Madarasa, arguing that it’s the rights of the children to acquiring education and thus every parent must ensure that their kids are attending the school.
He also appealed to the donors to extend their tentacles to other part of his constituency that are in critical need of water and urged others to follow suit such a magnificent gesture.