Association of Baptists for World Evangelism

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

Gambia Women's Finance Association

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.

EBU Commission

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.

Gambian German Family Planning Association

Gambian German Family Planning Association

Gambia Girl Guides Association

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

Credence Charitable Trust

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.

Deafax

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.

ActionAid Gambia

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.