Go Gambia

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.

SOS Kinderdorf International - Gambia

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.

Gambian Schools Trust - Manjai Kunda

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.

Gambia State Education Department

Gambia State Education Department