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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House Party
On November 23rd Swansea Gambia Link hosted a fundraising house party which turned out to be a huge success. The party was held at the house of two of the committee members and was given a “Lion King” theme, which involved the house being kitted out in animal print décor, East African music playing and …
2012-3 Update
2012/13 was a mixed year for the Swansea-Gambia Link. On the one hand, we raised nearly £5,000 through a combination of the Auction of Promises (brilliantly auctioneer-ed by Paul Jones) and a number of us running the Llanelli Half Marathon in early March. A huge thank-you to all those who gave, ran, donated and bid …
Olympic Torch
During the month of May, Swansea Medical School was host to three students; Pa Amadou Sohna, Fatoumatta Jaiteh and Ismaila Manneh from the Gambia. The students came for two weeks and during that time took part in a wide range of activities. Among the highlights were attending surgical and medical placements in a number of …
2011 Trip Report
In October 2011, ten Swansea medical students visited the Gambia for two weeks as part of their accredited clinical apprenticeship. This was a move away from the very successful informal student exchange to a more formalized arrangement, with structured learning outcomes and oversight from a UK clinical tutor. We spent two days each rotating through …
ASME 2011 Poster, David Abankwa
An exploration of Swansea medical students’ experiences of active involvement in an international health student link. Download the poster here: ASME 2011 conference poster