On the night of Wednesday 28th January, the Swansea-Gambia Link held its largest fundraising event of the year with the second annual ‘Auction of Promises’. ‘The Cricketers’ had been transformed for the evening from a local Swansea pub into an all singing, all dancing, cabaret themed auction room to host the occasion. The entire event was a great success with over £3000 being pledged towards the link and a night of live music and dancing (provided by our very own Swansea medical students) being enjoyed by all. The highlight of the evening’s entertainment belonged to the five piece act of Henry Boyle, Robby Green, Ben Woodman-Smith, Sebastian Tindall and Tomos Watkin who performed with choreographed precision Girls’ Aloud, ‘The Promise’. Truly quite something to behold, perhaps not if you were to be a future patient of one of theirs though!

In January the Swansea students that had visited the Gambia in December gave a presentation about their visit and what they had learned about health care in the Gambia to a packed seminar room.

You can download a copy of their presentation in pdf format here (large file- 43MB):

Download presentation.

You can also find a photo montage which they put together here.

The The Gambia-Swansea Vision 2020 Eye Link has a new website. Go and visit it here:

www.gambia-swansea-eye-link.org

Thank you to everyone who attended the presentation given by the 2nd year Students who recently returned, the presentation will shortly be available on this site.

But...it's time now to look forwards: tickets have been booked for 3 Gambian students to come over in March. On Wednesday 28th January there is going to be an Auction of Promises at the Cricketer's Pub at 7pm.

Full details of this event, along with more information about the link, can be found here.

A generous sum of £3000 was awarded in December 2008 by the Tropical Health and Education Trust (www.thet.org.uk). This Link has developed an action plan and this funding will allow the first stages of this to be implemented.