Inside Life
In an environment like The Gambia, every child is forced to grow up fast. You wake up at 6am
to help your mom clean the house before going to school and that becomes a routine. You get used to it until it’s time for feeding, then there is nothing to eat. In Gambia, we survive through hand to mouth. Eating once a day is considered satisfactory by an average Gambian. Schooling tends to be the least of everyone’s worries but I understand their reasoning. Why worry about school when you can barely feed?. I was a lucky one to have went to school and so were a few others. Schooling in Gambia prepares you for any competition out there because everyone had to prove to their parents that the money being paid was worth it. The Gambia is one of the smallest countries in west Africa, but the most content. We didn’t have much but we had our cultures.
