{"id":5106,"date":"2021-04-28T17:55:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2021-05-03T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:35:13","slug":"oasis-project-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/04\/28\/oasis-project-gambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis Project Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/04\/28\/oasis-project-gambia\/christine-hayter-oasis-project-gambia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5107 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/04\/Christine-Hayter-Oasis-Project-Gambia-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/04\/Christine-Hayter-Oasis-Project-Gambia-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/04\/Christine-Hayter-Oasis-Project-Gambia.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/04\/28\/oasis-project-gambia\/oasis-project\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5108 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/04\/Oasis-project-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Sponsor a child Oasis project Gambia\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/04\/Oasis-project-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/04\/Oasis-project.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christine Hayter, Charity Founder of the Oasis Project, came to our April 2021 meeting to tell us all about how her life changed in 2006.\u00a0 Christine told us she went on holiday to a Gambia and visited a village on the coast, called Bakau, and it changed her life, literally.\u00a0 She went back 7 times in that year and as a result set up &#8220;The Oasis Project&#8221; to work with the community of Bakau.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture of this project is to reduce cases of malaria and other life threatening diseases in this community by education, community participation to affect behaviour change and mindset.\u00a0 \u00a0She has put a substantial amount of her own time and finance into supporting this project and you could hear her passion for it as she told us about the shop they had set up and now the charity runs a school to educate the children.<\/p>\n<p>The project needs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sponsorship for a child at school &#8211; \u00a3120 a year<\/li>\n<li>Bras for teenagers<\/li>\n<li>Sanitary products<\/li>\n<li>White unisex socks<\/li>\n<li>Sex education materials<\/li>\n<li>Respect for women and girl\u2019s literature<\/li>\n<li>School resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you help.\u00a0To learn more about the project and to see how you might be able to help, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoasisproject.org\/\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Hayter, Charity Founder of the Oasis Project, came to our April 2021 meeting to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":5108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177,183,181,178,179,186,176,180,184,182,185],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bakau","tag-educate-sustainable-environment","tag-education-the-children","tag-gambia","tag-helping-the-community","tag-improve-health-and-living-conditions","tag-oasis-project","tag-reduce-malaria","tag-self-reliance","tag-sponsor-a-childs-education","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oasis Project Gambia | News | Blog | Events | SI Milton Keynes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Milton Keynes : Blog &amp; News : Oasis Project Gambia : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Milton Keynes . 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