A six-member documentary team delegation from Taipei, Taiwan comprising a Film Director, under the auspices of Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) recently arrived in The Gambia for a week-long working visit.

The ICDF staff came to produce a documentary about the cooperation between Taiwan and the Republic of The Gambia.
Speaking to the Daily Observer Dr Patrick Chang, Taiwanese Ambassador to The Gambia, said the delegation will visit the working sites of Sapu where the Taiwanese Technical Mission (TTM) has been stationed to feature works done by the Taiwanese Embassy, in cooperation with The Gambia Government.

According to him, during their visit to Sapu the delegation will visit the work of TTM which has been involved in reclamation of close to 1,000 hectares of tidal irrigation land, adding that TTM are working hard so that the area can be increased to 2,000 hectares of tidal irrigation land in the near future.

“At this place a picture of the milling machines in Sapu will be taken. This machine can pound about 800kg of rice in one hour; the rice is produced by the farmers in Sapu. They will also visit the three computer rooms set up by the Taiwanese Embassy in The Gambia,” he said.

According to him, the delegation will take pictures of RTVH regarding the Taiwan -Gambia cooperation projects such as the CT scanners and also the two haemodialysis provided by Taiwan (the President personally provided the two other haemodialysis machines that RVTH uses).

He further emphasised that President Jammeh has attached great importance to the quality of health care delivered in The Gambia.
Ambassador Chang further revealed that the delegation will meet with farmers, the farmers association, and extension workers, as well as regular people and hopes that more training will be extended to the farmers.

Dr Chang noted that Siffoe (where they are constructing a senior technical secondary school) and Maryork (where they are also constructing a senior secondary school which will be completed soon) will be visited by the delegation, as well as another school in Kanilai Area in the Western Region where another construction project will commence very soon with a budget of US $1.78 million.

“They will visit Banjulinding were they (TTM) has been engaged in training women farmers on vegetable horticultural farming, as well as meet with students who studied in Taiwan, among others.”

According to him, the last but not the least is regarding micro-credit project and they will like to know from the farmers (borrowers) about some of the developments they have achieved in these projects.