Rotary Bradford Bronte Borehole Provides Safe Water for Gambia School.

The Club has a long history of working with The Gambia Schools Trust and President Pauline Thorpe has led a Rotary members’ visit to the region. She wanted to make this a flagship project for her year in office and said:  “There will be no more potentially life-threatening salty or brackish water for the children. With a two thousand litre storage tank there is now a clean and reliable water source for all the school’s needs including the irrigation of the school garden where children learn agriculture.   We held a wide range fundraisers and members also dug deep to help out and I am elated that the project has finally come to fruition.”   

It has not all been plain sailing – the project was first delayed in 2018 by an early monsoon, making the work impossible for that year and then a further delay in 2019 caused by the drilling company having to do a priority job for the country’s president.

Picture credit – Hilary Lawther, Gambia Schools Trust