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What Bob's
charity has done - at a glance
As well as organising
fund raising events and regularly sending over medication and
equipment (his garage is always bursting at the seams with
items to be shipped to Gambia), Bob’s charity has achieved
many things over the years.
Paid for a water well to be built at Brufut
village.
Keeps the Brufut clinic stocked with medical
supplies.
Sent over uniforms, football kits and boots for
local schools.
Shipped over desperately needed equipment,
including hospital beds, bedside cabinets, medical supplies, catering equipment,
a heart machine, examination tables, resuscitation units and filing cabinets
(all donated to the charity).
Keeps the Gungar Medical Centre in Gambia
stocked up with medical supplies.
Supplied and installed computers at St
Josephs School and St Teresa’s School (with volunteers Paul Hartwell and Liam
Yardley).
Sent supplies and equipment to the Gambian Ex
Servicemen Legion (and personally paid for one ex serviceman to have cataract
surgery).
Sent 40 reconditioned computers to a school in
Walsall after they lost their star rating.
Organised, trained and paid for lifeguards on
the beach so that tourists can enjoy the sea without worry – they have already
rescued two people who had got into difficulty.
Organised first aid training for hotel and
tourist staff.
Organised and paid for a nurse to be stationed
at the Sunny Gambie Hotel during the holiday season.
Organised and paid for a midwife to be
stationed at a village clinic that Bob helped set up.
Paid for a bakers oven to be installed at an
outlying village and provided bicycles for delivering bread to surrounding
villages so that villagers could become self sufficient.
Sent over an ambulance to an village (donated
by the Red Cross), which has saved and treated hundreds of people who
otherwise have no access to hospitals.
Provided beach hotels with smoke alarms.
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Bob
Powell's Gambia Health and Schools Project Ongoing is a registered Gambian
charity incorporated under the Companies Act 1955: No.981/2003