Project development
July 05 2008
The second village of Njongon has been started,this village is on the north bank which is very poor. It does not have the tourists coming accross the river but as it was Momodou’s own village it was the automatic choice for our next move.
The market garden is 5 acres with 8 wells as the village has more people,some 800 in total.This has been completed and the fence surrounding the whole area is being finished in September 2008.
Njongon is also the area where the Future Farmers of the Gambia,a charity set up by Momodou 30 years ago,was trying to develope a training school for the young people. The idea was to teach them animal husbandry and agricultural/rural activities to keep the young in the rural areas. They have historically moved away to the towns and all the desperate conditions with few jobs. At least Momodou dream was to build a school with accomodation to keep them on the land and over the last few months this has been achieved. They have a training hall and four accomodation rooms located half a mile from the main village. The boys have been involved in all the building and setting up of the centre and we are thrilled with their progress.