I am currently at our Urban ministry center connecting with one of my teammates who works in the urban area and meeting with some of the ministry connections that she has. This AI image of street signs might be confusing, but so are directions, roads, and addresses in The Gambia. Very few roads actually have a name, few roads are paved, and directions in the urban area are based on landmarks (which may or may not still be there after all the recent road construction). Gambian taxi drivers have mental GPS, us tubaabs (white people) will occasionally try to beat the system by dropping a GPS pin or relying on GPS coordinates, but that does not always work as some roads may or may not be passable in a car and GPS does not always know if it is a road, a donkey path, or cutting through someone’s property. Grateful for drivers, landmarks, and Gambian GPS (roll down your window and ask someone sitting on the side of the road).
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