Category: 2014

Our Big Brownie Birthday boot has arrived! It will be coming to The Gambia with us to get photographed in lots of locations for the photo competition being run by Girlguiding  

We're excited to hear that PZ Cussons have donated lots of mini soaps & hand gels for us to take to the Gambia! They will be perfect in our water sanitation & hygiene peer education sessions!  

  Learning resources for the maths and science club and lots of fun toys and games   Learning resources for the maths and science club and lots of fun toys and games Resources we need to use to deliver the sessions

There's just over 4 weeks to go now and it's going to fly by! Since our planning meeting in February we've been pulling together everything we need for our peer education sessions. We've got our session plans in our group area online so that team members can familiarise themselves with them.  Mandy has a stack of laminating to do which will give us all the cards we need during our group work....

We had a great planning meeting today - 4 great peer education sessions written and our group charter. Sally Soap, Wendy Water Drop and Handy Andy!   We even fitted in tie dying some T- shirts!

As our planning meeting approaches this weekend, the pile of resources to help us plan peer education sessions is growing. We will be working with lots of local guides & scouts to cover topics which are important / useful to them.

Our project T shirts have arrived this week and look lovely! Exciting! We're looking forward to giving them out to everyone at our next briefing meeting on Sunday 2nd Feb.  

That is the question...   As always every doctor gives different advice. To add to this, there's a national shortage of yellow fever vaccine and typhoid seems hard to get too! Hopefully everyone will get what is needed within the time we have left! Happy jab hunting!

Several team members have now raised all of their money, a couple have even been able to donate more, which means we can do even more good work on our projects! Only 4 months to go! :)

We had our first team briefing today - exciting times!! We started with introductions then did some getting to know you and team building activities. This included a challenge to build famous places out of pasta & marshmallows - can you guess what they are?! Egypt - Pyramids Wimbledon - Tennis Court Stonehenge Angel of the North Eiffel Tower The London Eye   Then we heard about 5...