Thursday, August 12, 2010
Friends of The Gambia Association
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.
Friends of Manding
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.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Gambia Food and Nutrition Association
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
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Education for Development
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 Deafaxin their current work in The Gambia.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Glosaid
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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