In Africa, schoolchildren receive a meal at school – often the only meal of the day, as in Bondali in the Gamiba hinterland, where the Catharina Mellon School (nursery and primary school) is located. However, the school kitchen was never completed after the school was founded.…

The shutdown is extended by 3 months! End of September is the end of rice! Dear friends of the Catarina-Mellon School in Bondali,Shutdown in Gambia – everything is closed! Yes, Corona has also arrived in Gambia and the case and death numbers are rising rapidly! The…

In September 2019 – thanks to numerous supports – with 100 children, we organized a day trip from Bondali to the coast 130 km away. We were traveling all day with an old big bus. We saw the small museum in the state capital, climbed on…

In September 2020 the first children will graduate from primary school and we are working on scholarships for secondary school. We want to try to finance five of the best graduates of the school with € 300 each for 6 years. Five godparents have already been found…