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 17 th of June and we expect it to end on 17 th 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.

mn 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, 18 th 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.