Category: 2017

Our 3rd team briefing started with some more team building, which is so important when we don't see each other so often. We used a game which we will play with the Gambian Guides, where there are teams and they have to build a structure which is called out by the facilitator. Here, we have a toilet and a tree! We had a hygienist come and talk to us about oral hygiene, so that we could plan a peer...

For our 2nd team briefing, we made a weekend of it - staying at our county residential centre, Pettypool. We started with some team building games, where each team had to choose a piece of music then be the band who are performing it. As well as continuing to build and strengthen our team, the main purpose of the weekend was to make a start on writing the peer education sessions we will deliver...

We were excited to have the first briefing meeting for #TeamGambia2017 this month - it was all about getting to know each other and team building. We played human hungry hippos, where we had to collect as many balls as we could on a moving skateboard - very funny and harder than it looks! We then had to whip some cream so it was safe enough to turn the bowl upside down over our heads without...

A couple of our team members made a private trip to The Gambia over Easter and they took the opportunity to catch up with the Gunjur Guides. Much has happened since our group was there last year - Jo at the Gunjur Project and Alagi have been working really hard to try to find leaders to run the guide unit. Various options have been tested and currently the group is being led by the amazing and...