An African boy who tragically died after falling down a well is to be remembered in a weekly newspaper’s new competition.

As reported on HTFP in July, the Stourbridge News successfully raised £10,000 to help the Gambian village of Sintent install its own water pump and irragation system with its Well of Life appeal, run alongside a school on the paper’s patch.

Sadly the village suffered a tragedy which saw an eight-year-old called Mustapha fall fatally into one of the crude, hand-drawn wells which served as the new system’s predecessors last year.

Now the News is calling on primary school children in Stourbridge to design a sign in Mustapha’s memory, which will be placed next to the new system.

The winning designer will receive a brand new Hudl2 tablet from the News, and there will also be prizes for five runners-up.

Every entry submitted to the competition is being published on the paper’s website.

News assistant editor Pete Wallace said: “We’re both honoured and delighted to be able to name the well which you, our readers, have donated so generously to, after Mustapha.

“The tragic story of his death at just eight years old, for the want of such a basic and essential necessity as fresh water, touched our hearts, and was what made us so determined to make a real difference to the lives of the people in Sintet.”

The winning design will be revealed in December, with the sign being unveiled in March when school pupils from Stourbridge visit Gambia in March.