On 13 August, we helped to transport school furniture, blackboards, computers and sewing machines to Banjul / Gambia. We contributed 20 refurbished treadle sewing machines from donations we had received, and the AWO Hildesheim also brought 22 children’s school chairs.
Heinz Dombrowski from the Steimke youth workshop of the Albert Schweitzer Family Organisation in Uslar contacted us in the spring of this year on the recommendation of the workshop school in Hanover. He supports the activities of DBO (see link) and found support from us for the plan to support the Ceesay Nursery School in The Gambia, which was built by DBO, with school furniture refurbished in the Steimke youth workshop.
We helped with the transport from Uslar to our workshop, packed the donations, some of which were delivered from Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt on 12 August, organised the sea transport and customs documents and then loaded them on 13 August 2009.
Mr Hertsch from Hildesheim customs checked the load, compared the contents with the packing list and sealed the 40′ container.
The container ship with our cargo is due to arrive in Banjul on 9 September.
Further information here.
