Earning Money

So my lizard is fine, but she is not doing her job properly; there are still cockroach in my kitchen. But at least I don’t have weevils in my pasta.

My SQAD team are busy at work this week. We are preparing to present our work to the Co-ordinating Committee Meeting of the Department of State. We will describe our plans for a Quality Assurance Framework for education in The Gambia, and will run a series of activities designed to elicit feedback, both positive and not-so-positive no doubt. This is a week-long meeting with a large number of delegates, so we are preparing carefully. It should take place next week in Farafenni, but I have learned not to count on published dates or venues, so we will see.

As I move around the Gambia, I see hundreds of different ways in which people make their living. It is not easy to find work, so people have to be creative and flexible about how they earn their daily bread, or daily rice. If you wish to read more on this, follow this link to an article called Livelihoods.