 Gardens for The Gambia is a charity set up by author Philippa Gregory to provide water for wells in the gardens of rural schools in The Gambia. The charity was established in 1993 and has now dug 56 wells which are on stream and providing water to irrigate school gardens. In the school gardens the children learn the skills of sustainable agriculture. The vegetables they grow provide school dinner for the poorest children in school who would otherwise have nothing to eat all day, the surplus produce is sold and stationary and educational equipment is bought with the profit. |
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In December 2004 Philippa revisited The Gambia to catch up with her charity and visit some of the new wells.  Returning to The Gambia after an absence of ten years I expected to see some changes, the airport is now a proper terminal - instead of a shed in the corner of a sandy airfield, there is now a metalled road which runs north-south of the country with a metalled cross roads which boast The Gambia's only traffic lights - but the smiles of the people are the same, the sense of safety in a strange country is the same, and when I arrived at the airport and saw Ismaila Sisay's face - ten years older but warm with affection in the crowd - I felt as if I had never been away, and I was sorry that I had ever left.
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