{"id":87384,"date":"2025-10-06T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:52:28","slug":"bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt","title":{"rendered":"Bilal Boarding School Asks for Help from Gov\u2019T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Essa Muhammad Jawara, the proprietor of Bilal Boarding School has appealed to the government to support his school in the wake of protracted difficulties hampering its operations.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Standard yesterday, Mr Jawara said owing to the ongoing difficulties, 23 years after the establishment of the school, they have been forced to introduce payment of school fees.<\/p>\n<p>He said the school has a roll of over 1,000 students and over 50 staff members on salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI built a mosque in the school but since then I could not even get good mats for the children to pray on. On Fridays, many people come to attend the jumuah congregation but they all pray on the floor like the children do on daily basis,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He said death does not give anyone notice and since he\u2019s advancing in age, he does not want to be gone and leave his family saddled with debt. \u201cThat\u2019s why I decided to call a meeting last month with the parents to explain my situation to them. At the meeting, I informed the parents that students would have to now pay 500 per month or pay D5,000 for 10 months. Some parents agreed, but others disagreed with the proposal,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the government through the ministries of education to consider the school for subvention and other aids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Essa Muhammad Jawara, the proprietor of Bilal Boarding School has appealed to the government to support his school in the wake of protracted difficulties hampering its operations. Speaking to The Standard yesterday, Mr Jawara said owing to the ongoing difficulties, 23 years after the establishment of the school, they have been forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":87383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-87384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bilal Boarding School Asks for Help from Gov\u2019T - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Essa Muhammad Jawara, the proprietor of Bilal Boarding School has appealed to the government to support his school in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bilal Boarding School Asks for Help from Gov\u2019T\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Essa Muhammad Jawara, the proprietor of Bilal Boarding School has appealed to the government to support his school in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-06T06:40:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-06T06:52:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1759720924.902587.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bilal Boarding School Asks for Help from Gov\u2019T\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-06T06:40:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-06T06:52:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/sm_1759720924.902587.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/bilal-boarding-school-asks-for-help-from-govt\",\"name\":\"Bilal Boarding School Asks for Help from Gov\u2019T - 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