Christmas Ball Success
Thanks to the hard work of everyone involved in its organisation, the 2019 Christmas Ball went down as a huge success and raised an incredible £1,200
Meet the Committee
As our first term on the 2019/20 Swansea Gambia Link Committee heads into the final weeks, we thought it’d be good to take a brief pause from visa form-filling and Christmas Ball planning to introduce ourselves properly. Below is the SGL Committee for 2019/20 with some fun facts to get to know us (where provided!). …
Afternoon Tea
The Swansea Gambia Link Committee warmly invites you to celebrate our Gambian colleagues’ visit to Swansea, and wish them a fond farewell before they leave next weekend. Where: Room West, Fulton House (Singleton campus) When: 3:30 pm on Wednesday 5th November. After tea, we plan to take our Gambian friends to St Helen’s road to …
A Warm Welcome to the Gambian Students
The Swansea Gambia Link society is pleased to welcome four Gambian elective students to the UK. After months of arduous planning and the dedicated work of our local committee, we successfully secured four visas and flights for Bella, Kitabu, Saikou and Yafatou – four final year medical students from The Royal Teaching Hospital of Banjul. …
2013 Gambia Trip Report
In December 2013, 10 medical students, 2 midwifery students and two paediatric nursing students – accompanied by the Consultant ENT surgeon Mr Simon Browning – visited The Gambia as part of their respective courses. With 2012 being the first year a midwifery student had been part of the group, it was with great pleasure that …
Auction of Promises 2014 Update
On behalf on the Swansea Gambia Link committee, we would like to thank everyone who attended the Auction of Promises 2014 for their support, fantastic energy and incredible generosity.
Blue Monday?
What better way to cheer up Blue Monday than with cake. All sorts of cakes! Thanks to the exceptional culinary skill and generosity of our fellow Year 1 colleagues, we were able to offer an assortment of delectable delights in today’s bake sale. From fairy-dusted cupcakes to lemon drizzle slice and raspberry chocolate fudge cake, …
Christmas Bake Sale 2012
As Christmas is the season of goodwill (and good eating) we decided to host a cake sale to raise funds for the link. We asked students from the College of Medicine to bake for us and had an absolutely phenomenal response. We had hundreds of cakes and biscuits including a few Christmas classics.. mince pies …
An Interview with our Founder, Steve Allen
Dr Steve Allen, the man with the worst sense of direction in the world, is leading the scoping visit by members of the Swansea team in The Gambia this week. He’s well known as having spent a lot of time in Africa, so we asked him a few questions about how it all got started. …
The story of the autoclave, or “Denga Wollof tutti rek”
By Martin Thomas and Dave Leopold. On Monday we had a tour of the hospital and we came across two autoclaves, one working, one broken. We realised instantly the consequences of the second autoclave breaking down – theatre would stop running for example. Close analysis of the 2nd machine showed that the door was buckled, …
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