Projects - Castellan

David Goss came to us a few years ago wanting to find an existing UK charity he could merge with as he was approaching retirement and wanted the Bwiam project to continue even if he didn’t.  He has around 100 sponsors and with the money raised from their Standing Orders David pays money annually to around 100 Bwiam families to help with their schooling costs, this uses about 50% of the money, the rest he uses to fund different specific projects.

 He has fenced a large ‘women’s garden’ and built wells and shelters inside it. He built a small marketing area in the enclosure at Bwiam where the schools exist and this is used by the local ladies to see food for lunch to the children from all the schools in Bwiam. His project to refurbish the 250 desks at the primary school for children from 7 to 12 has recently finished.

 The next project, at the request of the Village Development Committee, will be to install a small agro-industrial unit to mill grain, which will also provide other services and more jobs. This is one of many schemes approved by the United Nations Development Programme to use technology to provide domestic energy efficiency, local self-sufficiency and employment whilst improving the diet and nutrition of villagers in Africa. Full details of this project can be found in the March 2009 Newsletter.

2011 David Goss formed a committee and they have registered their own charity - Castellan African Trust .