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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