Doné, doné!=bit by bit
It has been incredible to be back here. Sitting out at the Workshop as the sun sets and the dust sinks slowly to the cooling earth is beautiful. The blackboard has the day’s kindergarden lesson chalked on it and the slates have been cleaned and stacked. Kids appear out of the trees on their way back from school or work to play football, send balloons farting into the sky, dance, sing and chase each other about…
The littler kids are dancing in a circle playing a hilarious version of Simon Says spliced with ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’! And these little ones have been showing me what they’ve learn since last time – reciting French numbers and songs and scratching words in the ground.
Plans are underway for a big community party on Sunday. The mothers of some of the kids who come to the African Workshop are cooking, the band is practising, materials are ready for art classes and I’m off to buy a dozen chickens on Saturday morning…!
There are some great plans developing here as we meet up with other organisation, travellers and businesses, but more of that when they bear fruit! I don’t want to jinx anything.
I cannot thank you enough for your support, belief, trust and imagination in supporting this project and making something really special here in Bamako.
Now I just need those bags to turn up…!
Love
Ben
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