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Flag of The Gambia 
Map of The Gambia (click to enlarge) |
February 2010: Another School from
The Gambia Joins Sandwatch!
The newest Gambian Sandwatch Team
is from Ndow's Comprehensive Lower Basic School One,
Kanifing, The Gambia.
The beach we have chosen to adopt is called is Fajara Beach.
Click here for more details
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The Cape Verde Workshop Group |
The Gambia Attends a Sandwatch
Workshop in Cape Verde Aug 2009 In August 2009, Three (3) teachers from
The Gambia attended a Sandwatch-UNESCO
"Train-The-Trainers" Regional Workshop for West Africa, held
in Praia, Cape Verde.
The goal of the workshop is to train more teachers
in The Gambia in Sandwatch methods, so that the project can expand
within the country and more students, schools and communities become
involved in protecting their coastal environments.
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Hello from the
Sandwatchers of The SBEC International School (click to enlarge) |
Hello from the Sandwatchers of The SBEC
International School
We are H-A-P-P-Y to join you!
Get to know us:
We are a bilingual international school in The Gambia and “Shaping
World Changers In The Gambia” is our vision.
We are a member of the Association of International schools In Africa, (AISA)
and we run the British curriculum alongside the French and national
curricula.
The Gambia, a small country of 10,403 square kilometres land size
and a population of a little less than 2,000,000 is located in West
Africa.
It gained independence from Britain on February 18, 1965. It has 5
regions and 40 districts.
Most of the land, on the two banks of The River Gambia,
the most outstanding physical feature, is low plateau and our capital
city,
Banjul, is an island.
The Gambia is surrounded on three sides North, South and East, by the
sister country Senegal and on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.
We experience a long dry season from November to May and a short rainy
season from June to September. Our main export crops are
groundnuts and mangoes and our food crops are rice, maize and millet.
Next to agriculture, tourism has been our major
industry since 1971. This sector recorded its highest in 2007,
with 142,626 tourists.
The long summer (November to May), the sandy beaches, the array of
outstanding tourist attractions (forest parks, crocodile pools, nature
reserves, sacred pools and historical sites), the numerous four and five
star hotels and the natural friendliness of The Gambian people in
general, are the main factors underlining the vibrant Tourism Industry.
This is the main reason why The Gambia's beaches are so highly treasured
and guarded.
So we the students of SBEC are proud to join the Sandwatch Project
in the crusade of cleaning our beaches and making our land and water
environments cleaner and healthier for our residents, as well as for our
flora and fauna.
Our first target beach is the Palma Rima Beach, a very popular
beach for tourists and students during holidays.
Features at Palma Rima on a typical holiday include live band, beach
games, horse riding, food sales, swimming, boat riding and parties.
Yes ! We want to change the world to a cleaner, healthier and happier
place for us all !!
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