Hello and greetings from Kabafita Lower Basic School. How is every one in England. We say “Ramadan Mubarak”.

This is the month that the holy Qur’an was reveal to

prophet Muhammed P.B.U.H so we fast it

We stay without food and drinks from Sunrise to sunset. This month of fasting started

on Wednesday the 17th of June and we expect it to end on 17th of July when we shall

celebrate our Koriteh Feast. Will you like us to send our lovely benachin dish on the

day of Koriteh for you?

The first rain have just arrive very lately and

farmers are seen making preparation to sow their seeds for this year’s cropping season.

The mangoes are in season now. We enjoy eating them

after breaking our fast. Although the first rain have

still not come, the sun shines well during the day and gets warm during the

night too.

We read about the Gambia’s

transportation system in our S.E.S year five lesson and we make a

power point on that for you guys, we hope you

will like it.

We have got different forms of transport in the Gambia

depending on where you want to go, the amount you want to pay

for transport, and if you have got your own car.

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Majority of us use cheap Public transport privately

owned, locally called ‘’gaille-gaille’’. Vans and buses are also used to transport large

number of people at the same time.

The donkey carts and the horse carts only move goods from one place to the other.

Do you have donkey carts and horse carts in England?

Bicycles are common here. Friends from rich family background use them for fun whilst the elderly in rural Gambia

use it to ease their movement and carry

things. Motor bikes are privately owned .

We have got local taxes too. The green ones are for the tourist which are more

expensive than the yellow ones. The yellow ones are for the local people.

Taxes run on hired bases, that is ‘town trips’. Occasionally they run normal

traffic if people are not hiring them for town trips, as hiring them is expensive

for the local people.

Few people in the Gambia can afford cars. Majority of these are on 4 by 4 because

other roads apart from tarred are sandy and in the rainy

season there will big puddles and that disturbs traffic.

Some of the roads in the Gambia are tarred to ease

transport and on the Golden Jubilee

independence Celebration day, 18th February, 2015

Our president decided to name all major roads after

important people in our country.

This road linking a major town,

Brikama to the next Village called Jambanjelly is

named after the former chief in the District, Eric Tunde

Janneh.

On a short distance, we walk and carry on our head.

The motivation is, we do not pay anything to carry

things on our head. But we do this only on a short

distance, mostly not more than 1 KM.

We have few ferry crossings. For example, Banjul-Barra. Boats and

ferries are used for water transport and they carry

cars, motor bikes, and people too

Containers loaded in Europe travel by sea and arrive safely at

the Port of Banjul by boats.

We hope you enjoy watching our power point on Transport in the Gambia. We will be in contact soon. Bye for now.

Hope to hear from you guys too.