The next gardening club Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday 19th May at 7:30pm. We’ll have a review of progress so far and discuss productivity and controlling pests. If anyone has any plants ready to sell, please let me know. The photo is of Jacob’s garden fully planted last week. The link is below. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457186220?pwd=ZWpsZHE3TEtkM1VhSjV6Zml1K3AvZz09 …
The next Zoom session will be on Thursday 22nd April at 7:30pm. The link is… https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457186220?pwd=ZWpsZHE3TEtkM1VhSjV6Zml1K3AvZz09
A simple challenge that proved great fun! Each team had to design a popcorn holder to hold as much popcorn as possible. They were allowed one sheet of A4 paper and access to scissors, glue, sellotape and a stapler. When they had finished their container was filled with popcorn!
At our last meeting, we discussed planting seeds in our garden in March and April.
New year, new lockdown… new #Diapalantebookclub !We found ourselves with a bit of time on our hands and thought it would be great to kick off 2021 by getting acquainted with some different authors from across Africa. Sign up to take part here:bit.ly/Diapalantebookclub1 God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene We’ll be starting with a Senegalese classic, …
During this summer of coronavirus lockdown there has been a very active partnership between volunteers in the UK and our teenage Young Leaders in Senegal. They have all been working to address the lack of reading books for children in Senegal. The Centre’s library works hard to provide African and Senegalese storybooks but the majority …
Mid March brought life in Senegal and at The Diapalante Community Education Centre to a sudden halt! The schools are closed, travel between regions is stopped and within regions is restricted. There is a strict curfew, no-one is allowed out at night. Tom and Nathan, the Project Trust volunteers decided to stay and see out …
In February the younger members of the Diapalante Centre in Kaolack wrote about life in Kaolack as part of an annual information exchange with Year 2 of Ashwell Primary School. So here is a glimpse of life in Senegal, West Africa, before coronavirus became a pandemic. (To slow down the slide-viewer move the mouse over …
Tonight we went out for a change …
A 40 foot shipping container arrived here from Ashwell last month! This was the result of a lot of hard work from some very generous people who volunteered their time to help hand pack each of the donated resources into the container. Unfortunately some chairs had to remain behind as even a 40 foot container …
