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Newsletter/9 2020 - 1

•school drumming projects•adult dancing workshops•DaD Project funded by

National Lottery•12th Salifest with new

performers all ages including Lewisham pensioners group SMUG

•fundraisers: fairs, appeals•Alanouwaly Guinea: •Housing for 4 families•Projects & Help:•small computer project •emergency help for sick•arranged sponsors for

single mum, 1 boy & 1 girl to go to school & house built for elderly woman

Alanouwaly Salifou Sylla Foundation Registered Charity No 1156274

Newsletter 9 - Summer 2020

What we’ve achieved

2019-2020

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Alanouwaly UK

Alanouwaly Salifou Sylla FoundationNewsletter 9 - Summer 2020

Lewisham Irish Centre Christmas Fayre

Handmade items by supporter raised £400

Fundraiser at an office of Barclays BankEveryone who donated got a Christmas gift

Christmas Fundraising

New treasurer has joined the committee

Fundraising & Support

We fundraised through Irish Centre Christmas Fayre & Barclays Bank office fundraiserVolunteer Fair

Mostly free training: - sustainable

growth of charity- Social Media

Work with VAL for volunteering & funding applications

Stall at Africa Fair in Wandsworth

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Alanouwaly UK


Drumming and Dancing workshops for International Day & \Black History week @ Scotts Park Primary and St Marys school. 10 dance/movement workshops & sing-along with Nigerian singer Patrick Vinai at Deptford Methodist Church Elderly and Disabled Day Group

Calabash Centre Artscafe in Manor Park Lewisham

International Day workshops & performance

Crofton Park Library

Creative Ageing festival dance workshop at

Irish Centre

Library

funded regular Drumming and Dancing workshops for young and old for one year

and 4 X 1 off dance & drum at community places like libraries and the Arts Cafe in Manor Park. The Calabash Disabled Elderly Group & St Mary’s Primary school had completed 2/3 of the DaD project when the Lockdown stalled everything.

Workshops


Alanouwaly UK


With supporters generous donation we staged our 12th Salifest.

Many people took part, including Lewisham Pensioners Ukulele group, a Primary school steel pan band and local secondary pupils with spoken word & piano piece. Our local MP, Janet Daby visited 2nd year in a row and delivered a lovely speech in support of us!A Big Thank You to the many volunteers making Salifest possible. As well as record number of visitors there were record number of helpers!

★part of Catford Arts Trail★part of Creative Ageing Festival★Created Digital story about Salifest with photos by Ivan Angell

★ raised funds for projects in Guinea

Abram’s Dance & Vieux’s Drum workshopAfrican Food, home-baked cakes & drinksstalls with jewellery, African crafts & moreYeu-lai Mo displayed Art tombola & raffle

12th Salifest

Wuntanara

SMUG


Alanouwaly UK


12th Salifest

spoken word by Imani

Vieux’s Drum workshop

Royal Steel

Old friends meetEast African by Julie Akera


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Alanouwaly Salifou Sylla Foundation

Last years UK Workshops and Performances

54 Drum workshops 1380 participants

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28 Dance & Singing workshops 568 participants

9 performances 1425 audiences

1-93 Age of participants

Estimate:59% female 41% male

2 West-African Music History Display at 2 libraries7,883 views over 1 month

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Alanouwaly Guinea Newsletter 9 - Summer 2020


We have fundraised for the repair of the Solar Electricity and have paid for lightning protection and repairs of anything saveable as well as the roof and ceiling. Due to repeated political curfews and Covid19 lockdown we will have to progress on the repair when activities restart. 4 families who could not find anywhere else to live have found a home at the Centre. They contribute to the centre and help with any work that needs doing as well as sharing the cost of the local grid electricity

Alanouwaly Guinea has finally achieved national registration. The paper is temporary to be replaced with a Registration Document

when authority offices are finally properly functioning again




Guinea Centre

As activities had to be stalled housing homeless families is good use of the building for the public benefit and it also helps to look after the centre.

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Guinea CentreDue to the curfews and Covid19 lockdown activity interruption the Alanouwaly Guinea group has decided to put their energy into growing more food around the centre and various borrowed land. They continue to keep goats and have now acquired chicken again.

2 Goats at the Centre had triplets and 2 had quadruplets!

20 - 25 kids were born last year and selling some of them brings the

centre a small income

The centre is now home to around 16 chicken and the flock is growing

steadily! They are growing groundnuts around the centre and on

borrowed land above the centre.

Groundnuts




Food growing

Cassava plants

Alanouwaly Guinea has been lent sizeable pieces of land to grow food where they have created an irrigation system to deal with the water before the rainy season arrives. Only food related activities and tailoring (masks have to be worn by law under threat of a fine) are allowed during lockdown.

Digging the irrigation

Patates

Chilli pepper

Aubergines

Seny with Cassava




We have supported volunteers in important

events and desperate medical needs, weddings, funerals,

birth ceremonies.

Helping PeopleAlanouwaly arranged sponsorship to build small house for an old woman with no means

We have collected about 40 - 50 big bags of clothes/bedding/shoes/

fabrics and various electronics items Including 5 computers, but we were

unable to send them to Guinea due to the political and Covid19 lockdown

UK Volunteer hours and skills over 2000 hours donated for:

• all management • event preparation & management• music performances• displays/promotional materials• project creation in Guinea • fundraising • assistance for Alanouwaly Guinea

Sponsorship continues for Aminata Kalissa schooling

Fode has enrolled in a school and for computer

classes nearer to his mum


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The world is interconnected and we all have something to give. People from Africa and Europe can help and learn from each other. With the help of our supporters we invest in the Alanouwaly project to help Guineans to improve their lives through their own efforts with dignity. We want to make the very dangerous journey of economic refugees redundant by helping to build prospects at home for a long term solution. And in return we can learn from the many great things Africa has to offer.

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