They also includes many UK/World charities and organisations
which specifically include The Gambia in their wider (or
indeed worldwide) area and have offices or projects in The
Gambia.
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1 to 3 is a small charity (Charity No. 1082151) in
Wellingara, The Gambia. To date they have built, and
are equipping, a nursery school for 250 children, a skills
centre for teenagers, teaching typing, sewing and computer
studies, they have started adult literacy classes in
Mandinka and Pula, installed electricity and running water
to the site and constructed a modern toilet block.
Their next major project is to build a Health Post for the
community which will house a doctor, surgery, pharmacy,
maternity care unit, and a facility for dipping mosquito
nets. Meg Lyon, Chairman.
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ActionAid
Gambia provides basic education and skills training,
aiming for increased access to education for children and
adults. It works to increase food production and improve
access to marketing and sustainable agro-credit delivery
services. An important role is to improve access to clean
drinking water. Projects include assisting with village
initiated and village managed small scale enterprises,
Primary Health Care services, family planning and
development of community based organisations.
Consideration is always given to empowering the recipients
to manage their own development and to the conservation
and restoration of the environment
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ADRA International,
the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, works to improve the quality of life for
people in developing countries through integrated
community based development and disaster preparedness and
response activities. Operations in Gambia include Primary
and Secondary Schools in New Jeswang and Sotokoi Community
Health Outreach in Lamin/Abuko, Sinchu and Brufut, and
Water community projects in Faratu Daru, Sinchu, Sotokoi,
Brufut and Ghana town.
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Africa
Muslim Agency The Africa Muslim Agency (AMA), a
non-governmental organization (NGO) from Kuwait, was
founded in 1981 with the aim of strengthening cultural and
human relationships between African countries and Arab
states. AMA's priorities are the building and running of
schools in rural areas, building and running health
centers or hospitals and providing free medical care,
providing water resources such as boreholes and wells,
building and running of orphanages, and sponsoring orphans
and the handicapped, training women, professional and
vocational training, providing food and nutrition and
relief work
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African Centre for
Democracy and Human Rights The Centre's activities are
carried out in four main units: Management; Training;
Information and Documentation; and Legal and Research. The
African Centre serves as a bridge between the African
human rights NGOs, the governments and the general public.
It disseminates information on human rights bodies and
situations in various African countries. It also serves as
an educational channel for human rights NGOs. The Centre
prepares manuals for human rights teaching in schools,
from the primary to higher levels. The Centre also runs a
women's programme and works to remove the barriers that
impede women's growth and development
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Age
Care Association, (TANGO), is a network of independent
organisations working to improve the standard of living
for poor elderly people in the Gambia. ACA provides
shelter, food, clothing and medical facilities to the
old
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Agency
for Personal Services Overseas, (TANGO), is an Irish
charity which aims to contribute to sustainable
improvement in the living conditions of poor communities
by enabling skilled Irish people to transfer and share
skills and knowledge and contribute to a process of
development, peace and justice.
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Albaraca Nursery School, UK Charity, 01328 830044
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Anglican
Mission Development Ministries Engages in projects
including non-formal education, nursery schools, skills
training, relief programmes for refugees and emergency
preparedness. As a Church Community the Mission is
committed to making available access to resources, power,
assets and knowledge as the means to its goals
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Ardingly
Old Jeshwang Association, UK Medical Charity, email
only
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Association
for Intervention, Cooperation and Development,
(TANGO), provides services to sustain and expand the
primary health system in the Eastern region of the
Gambia
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Association of Baptists
for World Evangelism Exists to train and assist
Gambians in attaining self-sufficiency in areas of
expressed need in physical educational and spiritual
needs. Particular projects include health care, non-formal
education and provision of a nursery school
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Association
of Farmers, Educators and Traders, (TANGO), aims to
create firm and effective cooperation amongst grassroots
farmer organisations in rural areas. It assists production
and promotes self-sufficiency through skills training,
credit and savings facilities
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Association
of Gambian Entrepreneurs, (TANGO), provides credit and
savings mobilization, trains entrepreneurs in business
management through seminars, workshops and study tours,
provides advisory and consultancy services to members,
promotes business ventures with national and international
investors and publishes a business magazine and
directory
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Association of
Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism The aim of ASSET is
to enable small-scale tourism enterprises to benefit more
from their participation in the tourism industry by
providing them with assistance for product development,
marketing, finance, co-ordination services and
representation, and by identifying and promoting
appropriate standards of service and facilities.
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Bansang
Hospital Appeal Bansang Hospital stands deep in the
African bush, 200 miles east by road from the coast and is
responsible for the health care needs of some 600,000
Gambians. Additional strains are placed on its extremely
limited resources with the constant arrival of patients
from neighbouring countries. The main focus of the Appeal
is always centred on raising the necessary funding to
continue with the regular container shipments and purchase
of essential life saving medical equipment, dressings and
medications that are constantly required.
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Baptist
Mission exists to meet the needs of the people of
rural Gambia so that they can live longer, healthier and
more happily, and so come in contact with the love of God.
The mission surveys existing development projects and
assists where appropriate to gain perspective, identify
gaps and determine possible locations for new work and new
types of ministry. Field of interest include danitation,
dental care and agro-forestry. The mission runs a
Community Centre with non-formal education and arts and
crafts.
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Brikamaba Library, UK aid Charity, 01392 873061
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CARITAS provides
aid as a sign of the Catholic Church's concern and
commitment. It aim in particular to improve the living
conditions of the rural population by providing good water
for domestic use, animal husbandry and gardening, enabling
employment and family income possibilities, improving the
food situation and daily regime of the rural population
and stimulating community organization and cooperation
through an animation program
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Castellan West
African Trust Project is run by David and Jewel Goss
from Newton Abbot. The Trust came about as a result of
David and Jewel's experiences following their sponsorship
of a child in Senegal. When they visited the child during
a family holiday in neighbouring Gambia they were appalled
at the ostentatious signs of wealth displayed by those
working for the charity involved, compared with the plight
of the people it was set up to help. On a trip to inland
Gambia, they met a little girl who had been forced to
withdraw from school because her recently widowed mother
could not afford the fees. They agreed to pay for her
education and gathered support from friends and well
wishers to sponsor the little girl's sisters and brother
too. The Trust continues to channel funds directly to
those individuals for whom it is intended. It is not a
registered charity but a private non-profit making concern
with totally altruistic ideals. Recently the Trust has
been raising funds to support the treatment of a little
Gambian girl with severe burns.
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Catholic
Relief Services provides technical assistance for the
implementation and sound management of agro-enterprises.
It aims to increase the opportunities for farmers to move
beyond subsistence level. It also provides technical
assistance, support and training for the development and
sustainability of Gambian NGOs and assists with capital
costs of projects. It offers credit and saving promotion
where appropriate
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Child Hope International (CHI), a charity, believed
Gambian
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Children
of the Gambia This UK charity was founded in 1997,
when it sent its first 36 boxes. Over the last three years
they have sent a forty foot container with nursery
equipment, medical supplies, desks, chairs, and books,
from which many schools and nurseries have benefited. They
have a library, a school in Manjai Kunda, and they have
built their first nursery school in Kusalang, which will
be called Children of the Gambia. Cullingeworth Methodist
Church are funding the building of Nyodema Nursery School
through Children of the Gambia.
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Child
Youth Support and Rural Development Agency, (TANGO),
focuses on child/youth support and rural development,
including basic education for children and skills training
for all. It also works on health and family planning
projects. It supports horticultural development projects
and adoption of improved farming techniques, programs to
arrest soil degradation and deforestation and to
implementation of ecological intervention systems
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Christian
Children's Fund The Fund supports and constructs
schools and nursery schools, assists in community
development, health care, nutrition, recreation and water
resources, and provides assistance to needy children and
their families. It aims to develop the capacity of
children and their families to become fully responsible
for their own lives and to contribute to their community
and nation. It also supports small enterprise development
and provides loan schemes and skills training.
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Concern
Universal is a UK registered Charity which provides
strategies for dealingn with poverty around the world.
Their key focus in the Gambia is on agriculture, food
security, organisational development and capacity
building. Whilst working towards developing long term
sustainable solutions they also respond to emergency
situations as they arise, for example, averting potential
food shortages by distributing seeds to host families
supporting influxes of refugees
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Credence
Charitable Trust is a UK Charity supporting The
Credence Nursery School. The school was founded in 1994 by
young people in Latrikunda Sabiji and registered by the
department of state for education in the same year. The
young people were inspired by the President Award Scheme
Programmes in The Gambia, known in England as the Duke of
Edinburgh Award International Association. The nursery at
present is funded through school fees. The land which the
school stands on is not owned by the school, instead the
two classrooms are on a rental basis. The charity's aim is
to purchase a piece of land big enough to build a school
complex on freehold land.
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Deafax The Deafax
Trust is the only organisation in the UK dedicated to the
education, training, research and development of ICT for
deaf children. Deafax is training teachers of the deaf to
maximise the benefits of ICT as a teaching tool. This has
evolved into a number of training programmes which are now
available to share with deaf children and educators
internationally. Comic Relief are funding a programme to
improve the communication skills, literacy and employment
prospects for deaf people in The Gambia. As a first step,
Deafax staff have visited the Gambia Association for the
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (GADHOH) to set up the personal
computer that has been obtained with the funds and to
offer training in Gambia and the UK to GADHOH staff.
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Deafchild
International, is a catalyst for the creation of
personal and educational opportunities for deaf and
hearing children to communicate with each other throughout
the world, by using face to face communication and
Information and Communications Technology. They are
working with Deafax
on projects in The Gambia.
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Derek
Bailey Foundation is a UK charity whose objective is
to relieve the need, hardship and distress and promote
education and healthcare of the people of Nyofelleh and
the surrounding villages in the Gambia, West
Africa. There are two immediate objectives, firstly
to provide funds to enable the school to continue to
operate and to do so with better facilities, and secondly,
to contribute to the completion, equipping and staffing a
Medical Dispensary.
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EBU
Commission The European Blind Union is one of the six
regional bodies of the World Blind Union. The
Commission promotes and coordinates efforts towards
assisting blind and partially sighted people in developing
countries. Special priority is given to the establishment
and strengthening of organisations of the visually
disabled. The Commission also explores other ways of
assisting visually handicapped in developing countries,
e.g. promotion of work in the fields of rehabilitation,
braille production, technical aids, etc.
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Education
Aid Africa, is a UK Charity working mainly in The
Gambia but also in Sierra Leone, in close partnership with
the Catholic missions. They collect donated new and used
educational items and ship them out to the schools. They
assist 80 mission schools catering for over 30,000
children aged 5 to 18+, and 5 Vocational schools. The
charity runs a friendship scheme partnering a school,
group or parish in UK with a school in Gambia. The object
is to give UK pupils some idea of life in a developing
country and the partner school some knowledge of life in
UK by exchanging letters and photographs. It also provides
UK pupils with a practical opportunity to help others.
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Education for
Development is an independent development charity
offering training, research and consultancy in non-formal
education and training for adults and children. They
work alongside those engaged in development programmes
both overseas and in the UK, to help them to develop their
own capacity to deliver effective, quality development
programmes. They are involved with Deafax in their current
work in The Gambia.
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Family Care Gambia is a Dutch organisation. Their Small
Village Plan was created to help develop a variety of
projects that work towards sustainability; for example,
clay from the riverbank making firebricks for bread ovens
and utilization of land in the village for the development
of village gardens. In addition, while we endeavor to
bring materials for the building of schools, skill
centers, and clinics in the villages, we also emphasize
that it is imperative that the villagers themselves give
of their time and resources to help the village develop.
The pilot project is in Sintet, Foni Jarol District where
the main task has been the building of the Nyarika Sonko
Memorial Junior Secondary School.
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Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the United Nations exists to raise
levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve
agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of
rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest
specialized agencies in the United Nations system and the
lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural
development. FAO gives practical help to developing
countries through a wide range of technical assistance
projects. The Organization encourages an integrated
approach, with environmental, social and economic
considerations included in the formulation of
projects.
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Forbes
Trust - The Gambia, (TANGO), Small-scale loans for
rural women, skilled workers and school leavers involved
in vegetable gardening, tie-dyeing and tailoring
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Foreign and
Commonwealth Office The FCO provides constantly
updated Country Profiles which aim to provide a general
overview of the country concerned. They include
information on the country's recent history, recent
political developments, relations with the international
community and bilateral political and commercial relations
with the UK, as well as links to other relevant pages on
the FCO website.
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FORUT
is a Norwegian based charity working to improve household
food security, income levels and health status in their
partner villages. Projects include provision of a
domestic water supply, a Primary Health Care facility in
Wallalan, a cereal bank, a consumer shop for the women in
Daru Salaam and a seed collection exercise. Women from
partner villages are being trained in tie and dye, farming
and management, food processing and preservation
techniques. Adult literacy programmes are also in
progress. FORUT also helps to address alcohol and drugs
related issues. FORUT replicates Village Savings and
Credit Associations (VISACAs) within its project areas
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Freedom From
Hunger works to increase food production through the
development and improvement of infrastructure in swamp
rice cultivation. Its aim is to establish food
self-sufficiency at village level. Projects include
construction of seed stores and cereal banks and provision
of remuneration in cash and kind to communities
participating in food work so as to combat the adverse
effects of the famine months
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Fresh Stream
Christian Outreach International, UK charity for aid
and relief in the UK Nigeria and The Gambia, email
only
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FROGS - Friends of Gambian Schools, 01634 862365, is a
UK Charity which helps over a hundred Gambian Schools by
shipping 40 foot containers of supplies to The Gambia.
Contents of the containers include school supplies and
equipment, furniture, typewriters, sewing machines,
duplicating machines and clothing
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Friends of
KAUR (email only) is a UK Charity which supports three
schools, the community and a hospital in Kaur. Containers
are shipped to The Gambia with commodities from toys and
clothes to office equipment and stationery.
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Friends
of Manding is a UK Charity supporting the work of Dr.
Alhasan Ceesay, a doctor at the Royal Victoria Hospital in
Banjul since 1992. During his spare time Dr. Ceesay runs
the Manding Medical Centre with the help of other doctors
(some from overseas) where he sees around 1000 patients in
2 days. Lorna Robinson, a nurse at the Colchester General
Hospital set up Friends of Manding to raise funds for a
new hospital at the centre in Njawara village on the North
Bank of the river Gambia.
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Friends of Si-Kunda (Charity No. 1097750) aims to help
with the education of children in Gambia, with an emphasis
in and around the village of Si-Kunda. This village is in
country away from the coast and tourists and therefore
these children and schools do not get as much help.
They have so far raised funds to build a wall around a
kindergarten, which has helped to keep the children safely
within the school grounds and also keep out the snakes.
They also sponsor several children through their education
in Si-Kunda and a few in Bakau. They are trying now to
equip the schools in Si-Kunda and provide the two teachers
of the 150 children with a monthly payment. Sara Pridham,
Treasurer.
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Friends of The
Gambia Association is a UK charity which operates a
sponsorship scheme and sends a variety of goods to The
Gambia including both medical and educational equipment.
FOTGA funds small projects in schools and villags
throughout The Gambia.
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Friends
of the Gambian African Christian School is a UK based
charity set up to help educate children of the Gambia, in
particular those who attend the GACS run by the Reverend
Richard Jackson. At the present time they are a small
charity run by a few people. Their initial goal is to
raise enough money to construct a school building in the
village of Essau on the piece of land given to the
Reverend by the village chief. With the school building in
place they will then need to supply funds to pay teachers
and provide school equipment.
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Future
in Our Hands - FIOH is a Swedish charity which works
to improve basic education. Its major project is the
building of a school featuring kitchens designed
specifically for hygienic and energy-saving cooking. The
charity also supplies furniture to schools
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Gambia Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, C/O
GOVI PO Box 2053 Serrekunda, Tel Voice: +220 22 63 02,
Fax: +220 22 72 14
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Gambia Education
Support Organization Gambia Education Support
Organization is an internattional collaboration whose
mission is to provide assistance to Gambians and Gambian
institutions in education in The Gambia, to provide
intellectual, material, logistic and other support to
individuals and institurions in need at all levels of
education in the Gambia, to facilitate access to
information and resources on education and research
in the Gambia and to improve co-ordination and
communication among members to support education in the
Gambia. A major project at present is to improve the
library facilities at The Gambia College.
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Gambia Family Planning
Association is a member of the International Planned
Parenthood Federation. Information about The Gambia can be
found on the IPPF
website. GFPA supplements the national family planning
programme in disseminating information and providing
family planning services to adults and young people.
Projects include The Planned Parenthood and Women's
Development project, which integrates income generation
with family health. For example a project in the North
Bank Division includes installing a milling machine,
sesame oil extraction, training, meetings, lectures and
film shows. The family planning motivation and promotion
project includes meetings, talks, lectures, home visits,
follow up visits and film shows. The social marketing of
contraceptives aims to increase the use of contraception.
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Gambia Fellowship Association, UK charity for Aid and
Relief, 01626 332512
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Gambia
Food and Nutrition Association, (TANGO), supports
Community Management Committees who manage health and
nutrition programs at the field level. Projects include
schemes to combat malnutrition in rural areas, especially
among pregnant and nursing mothers and their children.
They also assist rural women in implementing income
generating projects using local Gambian food crops
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Gambia Girl
Guides Association The Girl Guides have been active in
The Gambia since the 1920's. Their mission is to enable
girls and young women to develop their fullest potential
as responsible citizens of the world
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Gambia
Good Seed Mission, (TANGO) The mission's purpose is to
feed the hungry, to multiply good quality seeds for
distribution to farmers, to assist farmers with a range of
improved agricultural practices, to establish good quality
seed producers in The Gambia and to work in collaboration
with the Department of Agriculture on research projects
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Gambia
Good Templars Association The International
Organisation of Good Templars is an organisation which
promotes the ideals of temperance, peace and brotherhood.
It is the largest international non-governmental
organisation working in the field of temperance. IOGT is a
community organisation with a wide range of social,
educational and recreational activities. International
cooperation is encouraged and a variety of projects are
carried out. IOGT's development programme helps to provide
better living and learning conditions. The promotion of a
positive, alcohol-free lifestyle is an important part of
any such programme.
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Gambia Help
the Gambia Health Education Liaison Project, is a US
non-profit organisation enabling communities in Gambia to
protect, conserve and improve their own health, the
health of their community, and their natural environment
by providing books, educational opportunities, seed money,
and human resources. The Well Project improves health by
providing clean water year round. The Books & Library
project has created libraries and sent 25,000 books for
distribution throughout Gambia. GambiaHELP also supports
Library Education so the books are well cared for and
accessible.
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Gambia Home Economics Association Skills Centre -
GHEASC, Gambian NGO which provides training to early
school dropouts on home management and job skills
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Gambia
Link, UK Education Charity, email only
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Gambian Development Trust, UK charity for a variety of
purposes including Education, 17S Selcroft Road, Purley,
no telephone, email or website known, appears inactive
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Gambian
German Family Planning Association
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Gambian Morning Star Mission, UK Charity for Religion,
Health and Education, 07803 192785
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Gambian National Olympic
Committee
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Gambian Schooling Fund, UK Education Charity, 01582
764254
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Gambia Schools Trust Fund is a Jersey Registered
Charity. The objects are to provide financial and
practical support for the promotion of education in The
Gambia
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Gambian
Schools Trust - Manjai Kunda The Gambian Schools
Trust, a registered UK charity, was set up two years ago
by Christine Schofield and Kathy Tristram, following a
visit to Manjai Kunda in connection with The Children Of
The Gambia. The school supported by this charity was in
danger of closure because of mounting debts, including
rents. Teachers were working for nothing and had not been
paid for several months. Christine used her management
experience to plan ways in which finances could be better
managed, while Kathy (a trained teacher) ran workshops and
training sessions to introduce teachers to different
methods of engaging their students. The charity has been
working alongside The Children Of The Gambia, initially to
clear debts and to find sponsors to pledge as little as
two pounds a month to pay the teachers' wages. This was
achieved within three months. In 2002 they were able to
begin giving support to a second school. The main aim now
is to raise money for teachers' wages and major resources.
The charity's founders are therefore engaged in
identifying schools where lack of funding for teachers
could bring about closure, and in thinking of ways to
resolve the fact that children who can't pay to attend
school are simply sent home.
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Gambia Red Cross
Society A major part of the work of the Red Cross in
Gambia is to assist refugees. It also provides services
such as health care, relief programs, sanitation, day care
centers, education and skills training, first aid,
emergency and disaster relief and community based
rehabilitation programmes
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Gambia
Rural Development Agency - GARDA, (TANGO), exists to
improve the socio-economic well-being of rural Gambians in
Lower River Division, North Bank Division, Central River
Division, particularly the poorest households and most
disadvantaged groups, namely women and children. The
agency aims to improve agricultural production through
seed store construction, farmer training and reforestation
and to establish a variety of income generation projects
for the rural population. They give special attention the
education of youth
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Gambia
Rural Development Agency - GRUDA, (TANGO), operates
throughout The Gambia to promote social and economic
development especially in the rural areas. It assists in
the coordination of activities relating to rural
development at all levels as a voluntary organization.
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Gambia School Appeal, UK Education Charity, 01246
268512
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Gambia
State Education Department
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Gambia
Tourism Concern see also http://www.Gambiatourismconcern.com/
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Gambia
Tourist Support GTS provides 2 way support. Gambian
hosts provide support for tourists who can feel completely
confident to explore The Gambia, whilst tourists provide
direct income to the hosts and the local economy. GTS
members can obtain discounts from many shops, bars, clubs
and tourist locations. This helps the local people by
distributing the tourist spending more widely. GTS
membership fees are used to provide small interest free
loans for locals to improve their tourist services and to
sponsor education for local children
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Gambia Women's
Finance Association Exists to promote and develop
women enterpreneurship in The Gambia through the provision
of access to institutional credit, revolving fund loan
guarantee scheme, business skills training, technical
assistance, advisory and counseling services and savings
services and advice, promoting internal generation of
resources among women through savings mobilization
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Gambia
Youth Federation, (TANGO), undertakes to support the
socio-economic development of young men and women, to
assist communities to achieve self-sufficiency through
self-help and to assist in improving the equality of life
in rural communities
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GambiCats
cares for cats and dogs around the hotel areas, having the
animals neutered and returned back to their colonies in
and around the beach areas.
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GAP
Foundation, UK charity for Education, Aid and Relief,
email only
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Glosaid Glosaid
is a registered charity whose main aim is to help educate
children in The Gambia, particularly at Lamin-Daranka
Primary School. They are based in Gloucestershire and The
Gambia. Glosaid holiday lets are one way of supporting
Glosaid. The charity also has a sponsorship scheme for the
children.
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Go Gambia GO
Gambia is a UK charity focussed on assisting the
development and improvement of education, basic public
healthcare and Police, Fire and Ambulance services
in the Gambia. The objectives are to: 1) Manage a
sponsorship program, which provides financial assistance
to individual students to enable them to attend primary
and secondary schools. 2) Supply medical/laboratory
equipment, medical/laboratory consumables, fire fighting
and police equipment and clothing to support the
development and improvement of basic public healthcare,
and to assist in the development of the emergency services
via The Royal Victoria Hospital, The President Jammeh
Foundation Hospital and the Police and Civilian Clinic in
Banjul. 3) Provide funds to set up and run a
student/adult skill center. 4) Provide funds for the
shipment on an annual basis of equipment and consumables
to facilitate Go Gambia's programs.
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Gospel On Wheels
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HASTE - Help
African Schools to Educate, UK Education Charity,
email only, no website.
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Indigenous Business Advisory Services, Gambian NGO
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Institute
for Human Rights and development in Africa is a
non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organisation
headquartered in the Gambia. The Institute is committed to
contributing to the development of the African human
rights system through its programme activities. We are
dedicated to making the human rights treaties of the
Organisation of African Unity as effective as possible.
The Institute works to strengthen the African Commission
on Human and Peoples' Rights with whom it has observer
status.
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International Council
for Education of Visually Impaired
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International Society
for Human Rights supports local groups and individuals
engaged in human rights activities and education. It
facilitates the publication of articles, reports,
newsletters and other materials on human rights topics. An
important area of concern is the participation of women in
the program and sensitizing young women on their rights.
The society advocates public disclosure against all forms
of human rights violation
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International
Trypanotolerance Centre ITC is an autonomous,
non-profit-making research institution, established by an
Act of The Gambian Parliament in 1982. The mission
of the ITC is "to contribute to the efforts in increasing
livestock productivity and utilisation in the West African
region through the optimal and sustainable exploitation of
the genetic resistance of indigenous breeds of livestock
for the welfare of the human populations".
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Islamic Culture and Development Association
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Islamic
Relief Association, (TANGO), works to improve the
socio-economic standards of the rural poor, especially
women, by providing credit and skills training for income
generating activities. It promotes greater awareness of
the environment and endeavours to replenish it physically.
It aims to create awareness and understanding from an
Islamic point of view of harmful cultural practices, for
example it promotes the elimination of female
circumcision, prostitution, violence against women and
drug abuse. It also assists orphans, abandoned children
and 'Almudos'
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Jammeh Foundation
for peace - Gambia
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Jan Francis is working to advance the education of the
children of Besse in The Gambia by the provision &
maintenance of a Primary School building, related
equipment & sponsorship. Also working on the
establishment of co-operative gardens. One has
already been completed at The Police Intervention Unit,
Kanifing Barracks.
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June and
Brian Cox Educational Project, UK Education Charity,
email only
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Junior Achievement
International - The Gambia
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Kabafita
Fund, UK Education Charity, email only
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KIDS - Kindergarten in Distress, Serrekunda, UK
Education Charity supporting the Kadeejah/Khadeejah
Nursery School, 01803 312204
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Kindergarten
Linden in Gambia, a German Charity
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Kingfisher
Trust aims to direct resources and donated equipment
where it is most needed, encourage self-sufficiency by
offering skills training, help raise educational standards
by assisting with basic school equipment, especially in
nursery schools, to encourage a sense of community in
villages by working with people on local projects and to
form a link between children and schools in Europe and The
Gambia. Projects have included providing medical equipment
and two ventilators for the Intensive Care Unit at the
Royal Victoria Hospital, linking with UNESCO Clubs and The
President's Award Scheme in the skills training of young
people, providing typewriters and computers for schools,
providing sewing machines and tools for villages and
skills centres, with the generous assistance of 'Tools
with a Mission' and providing machine tools for technical
skills.
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Kombo East Tesito Association - KETA, a Gambian NGO,
works to support members to improve their living and
working conditions, to develop the methodology and
capability of each member so that they can better achieve
their objectives, to establish village cereal securing
reserves, to improve the nutritional situation of members
and to establish permanent income generating cottage
industry for women
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Lend a Hand
Society
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Mandela Education Centre, UK Education Charity, the
Mandela Trust is a Notting Hill Youth Project, 148 High
Street, London NW10
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Marlborough Brandt Group
- MBG, is a UK charity which has developed links with
the village of Gunjur. They have initiated a wide range of
supportive programmes including health education, business
education, numeracy, literacy, a credit union and loan
scheme, exchange of young volunteers, clean water supply
and institutional capacity-building. They are also active
in the field of development education in the UK through
the Wiltshire World Studies Centre (WWSC).
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Malvern
Girls College Gambia Project The link began when two
vacationing staff members visited the country in 1992 and
were invited by a former pupil to see the work she was
doing in one of the villages. Experiencing the appalling
level of poverty at close quarters, they decided they must
encourage the College to develop links with a Gambian
school. The following year they contacted a variety of
schools trying to decide which one was the most needy.
Their taxi driver being intrigued at the purpose of their
visit persuaded them to choose his village, Illiassa, a
long way "up country" and well off the tourist track. So
far the support has been for school projects but the
College may branch out into other areas. The village
women's vegetable gardens provide most of the family food
but they have little awareness of the value of working
together or how to improve productivity. On our recent
visit they made their sense of powerlessness known to
their visitors and so the College is exploring ways to
provide support.
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Medical Research
Council - Gambia Scientific research and
documentation
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Munazamat
Aldawa Al Islamia, (TANGO), aims to assist with the
spiritual development of the person so that he can take
care of the material aspects. It encourages positive
relations among members of the community without
prejudice. Specific projects include assisting in rural
development programs at community level through self-help,
charitable services and collaboration with other NGOs,
providing education resources, agriculture inputs, health
facilities, water supply and training facilities
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Muslim Aid is a
worldwide organisation with an office in the Gambia. The
UK office has worked with Friends of GOVI since it's early
days and has given a great deal of support to our
projects.
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N.A.Y.C.O. National Association of Youth and Children
Organisations, Kairaba Avenue
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National Youth Council -
Gambia Apart from co-ordinating, planning,
programming, monitoring and evaluating all youth
programmes, projects and activities, the National Youth
Council (NYC) as an independent autonomous body is also
mandated by an act of the National Assembly to advise
Government on all youth matters in The Gambia.
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Nova Scotia
Gambia Association The Nova Scotia-Gambia Association
is a non-profit, non-government organization (or NGO)
dedicated to the creation and operation of sustainable
development programs for Gambian and Canadian youth. Since
1985, the NSGA has carried out more than 25 successful
development projects in The Gambia, mainly in the health
and education sectors.
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PAGEANT
PAGEANT is a recently formed charity (2002), started by
Ian and Pippa Howard, which aims to provide support for
educational needs in The Gambia. PAGEANT stands for
Projects Aiding Gambian Education and National Talent. For
many years, tourists have been encouraged to provide help
to schools near to the tourist areas, but most up-country
schools get little help. Pageant is providing assistance
to one of these schools, Bakalarr. Telephone 01403
730610.
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Peace
Corps Volunteers work closely with Gambians to
alleviate the most pressing problems. In the words of the
Gambian President at the Peace Corps' 30th anniversary
celebration, "Their [Volunteers'] unique experiences and
fraternal interactions at the grass-roots level of Gambian
society can only add to greater understanding and good
relations between the two peoples, and we urge them to
continue their roles as American Ambassadors of peace,
understanding, partnership, and progress."
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People
in Action, TANGO, a Gambian NGO which aims to assist
local communities to be better organised, to become
productive and develop better educational opportunities at
the community level, to introduce modern farming
technologies to members and to assist the handicapped and
provide medical facilities for poor rural communities
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Plymouth to
Banjul Banger Rally The first Rally took place on
Boxing Day 2002 with 30 cars costing less than £100
raising funds for the Castellan West African Trust Project
and Riders for Health. Some of the participating cars were
donated to charity. In 2003 car 144 - "Gerryatricks Frogs"
- is running and will be donated to Friends of GOVI on
arival in Gambia. It is a Mitsubishi L300 Estate, LHD,
4wd, 2.5 diesel. The team departed London on 19th December
2003 and were expecting to spend Christmas in
Marakesh!
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Project
Aid Third World, TANGO, Gambian NGO concerned with
control of epidemics and diseases, youth welfare services
and the advancement of proper upbringing, popular and
professional education
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Riders for Health
Africa cannot hope to develop, to fight disease and to
move out of the poverty trap if it continues to depend on
walking, and on 13th-century forms of transport such as
donkeys and hand-carts. But neither can it develop if the
21st century vehicles sent by development agencies and
others continue to break down after only a few thousand
kilometres. Riders for Health addresses this issue with a
range of techniques to ensure vehicles operate for as long
as they would anywhere in the developed world. And at a
normal, reasonable cost. Riders relationship with the
Gambia began in 1989, when they carried out their first
exploratory training projects. In 2002 Riders and the
Government of the Republic of Gambia signed a historic
agreement: that the Gambia would outsource all its vehicle
management (beginning with the Department of State for
Health) to Riders. Never before has an African government
taken such a step. The World Bank are lending set-up and
running costs as part of their larger Participatory
Health, Population and Nutrition Programme. Riders
Logistics operates through three transport management
units, in Serekunda, Mansakonko and Bansang. As well as
DoSH, the World Health Organisation and a number of NGOs
have committed vehicles and motorcycles to the
programme.
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Royal Commonwealth Society for The Blind
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Rural Development Bureau, UK charity for Education,
Relief and Health, operating throughout West Africa
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Save
Our Souls, TANGO
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Save The
Children Federation - USA Serving children, family and
community in integrated development projects aimed at
achieving positive lasting change. Innovative,
pace-setting community participatory programs that target
women and children with particular emphasis on the
economic, social, educational, nutritional, health, and
environmental aspects of their lives
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Save The
Children Fund - UK Aims to achieve lasting benefits
for children within their communities, to make a reality
of children's rights and to work in partnership with
governments, non-governmental agencies and local
communities in the areas of health, child welfare,
community development and education
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Schools
for Gambia, (new website), is a UK Charity working
mainly with rural schools. They also sponsor children and
currently 80 are sponsored through supporters of the
charity. They concentrate on one project at a time seeing
it through to completion so that they can control how the
money is being spent. They send school materials out to
Gambia and have been supplied with seeds by Suttons for
vegetable gardens at Jinak and maybe all the other schools
they help.
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Schools
for Progress (email link - there is no website yet),
is a registered charity in The Gambia and in the UK. It
was started in 1986 by two people working in the Atlantic
Hotel. The original objects were to assist poor
children to go to school instead of begging from tourists
on the beach. Over the years the number of
children being helped has steadily grown. Currently we are
sponsoring 33 children at all levels from Nursery to
Senior school, (and have a queue waiting). The Charity has
also undertaken small projects including rebuilding the
kitchen and adding a new roof at Bijilo School, building
an extra classroom and furnishing it at the Pentecostal
Nursery School in Banjul, supplying New
Yundum School with a classroom of new (16)
locally made metal framed desks and refurbishing the
toilets at the Albion School in Banjul.
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Schools
for Progress or here is a Netherlands
Charity which has helped Kadeejah Nursery in Serrekunda
and Sittanunku Primary School on the North Bank
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Seeds for
Africa is a charity run by the University of Kent at
Canterbury. Seeds for Africa assists schools with money
for seeds and tools to create school vegetable gardens,
they are currently assisting ten schools in The Gambia
through Schools for Progress.
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SDRD - Support to
Decentralised Rural Development Programme
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Shipton-on-Stour School, Pirang is a project funded by
The Black Horse Inn, Shipton-on-Stour, which aims to
complete the building of two classrooms in the village of
Pirang and to gain primary school status for the new
school.
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Skeikh Mudah Islamic Foundation
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Sight Savers
International Aims are to support the national eye
care plan, to reduce preventable and remediable blindness
through the provision of curative and preventive eye care
services and to provide ophthalmic services within reach
of the entire population through the integration of
primary eye care with the existing primary health care
structure, mobile eye service and ophthalmic health
centres
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SOS Children's
Villages - The Gambia SOS Kinderdorf International
first became active in the Gambia with the construction of
the SOS Children's Village Bakoteh in 1980. Since then the
SOS operation has grown continuously and has established
itself as an integral part of the local community. Today
there are 10 family houses and 77 Children of different
age groups live with their SOS Mothers in the Family
Houses. The project also includes a kindergarten, schools
and vocational training facilities
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SOS Kinderdorf
International - Gambia is the Regional Office of SOS
Children's Villages. SOS is chiefly concerned with the
care of orphans, aiming to provide them with the needs of
life including education and medical care until such time
they can stand on their feet. The Regional Office for
North/West Africa, based in Banjul, oversees the operation
of all SOS Children's Villages in six countries in the
North/West of the African Continent.
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Sound
Seekers is a registered UK charity, which supports
deaf people, particularly children in developing countries
of the Commonwealth, however, it does not operate in
Gambia at present.
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SSHFC - Social Security
Housing Finance Corporation
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St
Mary's University St Mary's is a Canadian university
contributing to the provision of degree level education in
The Gambia.
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Strand
Educational Support Trust
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Tesito is a UK
Charity partnering with local communities in The
Gambia to improve the lives of ordinary Gambians and
undertaking community based programmes to raise the
standard of health and education. The major current
objective is to lower the malarial morbidity rate in
infants and pregnant women in Julangel village by 10% by
2006 through the use of impregnated bed nets,
environmental control and social intervention.
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The Gambia
Experience is the leading tour operator to The Gambia
offering flights and holidays all year round. The 72 page
brochure features the widest range of holidays including
beach hotels, Makasutu eco-lodges, birdwatching, fishing
and photography tours. Flights available from Bristol,
Manchester and Gatwick. An AITO 3 star responsible tour
operator, The Gambia Experience run their own School
Development Fund, supporting education across the
country.
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United Nations High
Commission for Refugees
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United
Nations Population Fund UNFPA's mandate is to build
the knowledge and the capacity to respond to needs in
population and family planning, to promote awareness of
population problems in both developed and developing
countries and possible strategies to deal with these
problems, to assist developing countries, at their
request, in dealing with their population problems, in the
forms and means best suited to the individual country's
needs and to play a leading role in the United Nations
System in promoting population programmes, and to
coordinate projects supported by the Fund.
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United Nations
Volunteers
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United
Nations World Food Programme WFP's intervention in the
Gambia is intended to support Government policies/goals of
promoting 'Education for All', enhancing human resource
development, assisting agriculture and rural development,
increasing food security, and alleviating poverty.
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Village
Savings And Credit Association, TANGO, concerned with
training staff of NGOs and other organisations who want to
establish VISACAs in different parts of the Gambia. So far
the center has trained staff from EDF, FORUT, AFET, and
FFHC/WRP. VISACA projects are implemented by C.I.D.R.
France under the Ministry of Agriculture with financial
support from K.F.W. Germany and IFAD (UN). The project
aims to develop self managed associations at village level
in order to channel cash savings towards productive loans
for villages under their own control.
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Voluntary
Service Overseas VSO recruits volunteers for posts
where they can assist with the development of skills which
will allow people increased self-sufficiency, choice, and
opportunity in their lives, helping to improve the living
standards of the poor and disadvantaged by involving them
in the work that benefits them and aiming to enhance the
status of women.
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Wellingara Community Initiative Support, UK for a
variety of purposes including Education, email kateelyb@aol.com is no
longer valid
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West
Africa Mission, (TANGO), aims to propagate evangelism
(Church ministry) among the people and to address the
problems of youth through the development of a community,
sports, and vocational center
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West
Africa Mission - Korea - Gambia (TANGO)
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Women
In Service, Development, Organisation and Management -
WISDOM, (TANGO), aims to provide easy access to credit
for rural women and women in the informal sector and seek
assistance from organisations to implement development
projects for women. It provides services to enhance
women's socio-economic status and launches awareness
creation programs on social, political, and religious
issues affecting women
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Wonder Years Centre of Excellence, UK Charity, new in
2001, currently has an education project in progress in
Medina Salaam. Tel 01554 820550
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Woodbury Salterton, Devon and Dumbutu Village Community
Link, UK Charity, new in 2001, for a variety of purposes
including Education, 01395 233006
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World Blind Union The
World Blind Union (WBU) speaks on behalf of 180 million
blind and visually impaired persons from about 600
different organisations in 158 countries. The underlying
idea of the World Blind Union is that everyone, including
the blind and partially sighted, is born equal and
entitled to personal dignity and fundamental human rights.
On the basis of these rights, the WBU promotes prevention
and treatment of blindness, advances the well-being of
blind and partially sighted people all over the world,
particularly in developing countries, and takes action
against the high prevalence of poverty among people who
are blind or partially sighted. The WBU also provides an
international forum for the exchange of knowledge and
experience in the field of blindness.
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World
Evangelism for Christ International aims to provide
assistance and promote self-sufficiency and training in
all areas of need; physically, educationally, and
spiritually. Their main program of assistance is through
health centers. They provide training for nurses, adult
literacy, typing schools, and rural development on a
one-to-one basis
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Worldview
International Foundation Conducts participatory
communications and media projects from grassroots level to
the latest virtual reality products. Their video training
and production and participatory communication training
deals with areas such as fuel saving, forestry,
horticulture, crop production, skills training, family
planning and institution building
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Young Men's Christian
Association The YMCA is a worldwide fellowship based
on the equal value of all persons. It initiates and
maintains a number of projects within the community and
provides accommodation to members in a Youth Hostel.
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Young Women's
Christian Association The YWCA aims to build a
fellowship among women and girls of all denominations
devoted to the task of realising in our common life those
ideals of personal and social living to which we are
committed by faith as Christians. Projects in The Gambia
include a Vocational Skills Centre and a Child Development
Center.
