Dear friends and family,
I hope that as you are
reading letter that all is well for you and your family. I can say that my Peace Corps adventure over
the last nine months within The Gambia has been challenging, exhilarating, and life-changing
on so many levels. My work at the Seno
Bajonki Lower Basic School continues to be a source of great joy, in large part
due to the great staff and students I am blessed to work alongside of. Since last October, school administration has
been dedicated towards fundraising to establish a Community Library and
Learning Center which will be a joint resource for the lower basic school and
community of Seno Bajonki. Our hope is
to complete construction of the Community Library and Learning Center by the
end of the current academic year on July 15, 2016. The Community Library and Learning Center will be utilized for a variety of uses. These uses include housing the Early Child Development class for the 2016-17 academic year, centralized library space for all students at the lower basic school, utilization of the library outside of school hours and over school breaks by both students and community members, locally facilitated skill trainings, and for meetings and programs coordinated by community groups within Seno Bajonki. Local fundraising efforts have yielded 17,900 Gambian dalasis, $447.50 USD. The remainder needed to fully fund this project is $1,167.38. Any donations made on the Peace Corps Partnership Program webpage,
https://donate.peacecorps.gov/donate/project/community-library-and-learning-center471/, will be tax deductible. If you are able to give it would be greatly appreciated if you could donate by April 1st in an effort for the funds to be dispersed by our tentative construction start date of April 15th. I cannot thank you enough for your consideration of this project and all your support of my Peace Corps service here in The Gambia.
With hope,
Stephen
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Gambia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Gambia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez