Stone station community building will be hosting a talk on 24th June on a three-decades-long partnership between a Wiltshire village and the community of Gunjur in the Gambia.
Nick Maurice from the Marlborough Brandt Group will be giving the talk. 
Nick and others set up the link in 1981, in response to the Brandt Report – North South – A Programme For Survival.
It has involved the exchange of some 1,600 people between the towns of Gunjur and Marlborough, a major development programme in Gunjur and a development education programme in Wiltshire. Some 30 schools in Wiltshire now have partner schools in The Gambia.
Nick will be giving an illustrated talk about the link between Marlborough and Gunjur. He was a VSO volunteer in Togo from 1961-2 and again as a medical student, he volunteered with VSO in Papua New Guinea in 1967-8. He became Director of the Britain Nepal Medical Trust, working in Nepal for two years in the early ’70s, then for the Oxfam emergency team in Cambodia in 1980. He became a trustee of Oxfam and was awarded the OBE for his services to international development in 2001.
In 2002 he became Director of the UK One World Linking Association and created the organisation BUILD (Building Understanding through International Links for Development). He was a GP in Marlborough from 1977 until 2002.
The talk will take place from 7.30pm to 9pm. Tea and coffee will be served afterwards. Further details can be obtained from Karen Wardell on 07967 278307.
