Association of Gambian Entrepreneurs

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

Africa Muslim Agency

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

Bansang Hospital Appeal

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.

Baptist Mission

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.

Age Care Association

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

Child Youth Support and Rural Development Agency

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

Castellan West African Trust Project

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.

CARITAS

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

Association of Farmers, Educators and Traders

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

Peace Corps Volunteers

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."

Voluntary Service Overseas

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.

United Nations Volunteers

United Nations Volunteers

Sight Savers International

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.

HASTE - Help African Schools to Educate

HASTE - Help African Schools to Educate, UK Education Charity, email only, no website.

Kindergarten Linden in Gambia

Kindergarten Linden in Gambia, a German Charity

Institute for Human Rights and development in Africa

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.

GAP Foundation

GAP Foundation, UK charity for Education, Aid and Relief, email only

Gambian National Olympic Committee

Gambian National Olympic Committee

Gambia Red Cross Society

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

Worldview International Foundation

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.

St Mary's University

St Mary's University St Mary's is a Canadian university contributing to the provision of degree level education in The Gambia.

Gambia Good Templars Association

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.

Riders for Health

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.

Gambia Help

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.

Youth Empowerment Network, Parklands, South Africa

Youth Empowerment Network work creatively with young disadvantaged and unemployed South Africans, to overcome inner oppression, and develop self-confidence, lifeskills, and leadership qualities, as the bridge to a productive life.

The mission of the Youth Empowerment Network is to empower out of school and out of work youth that are at risk in South Africa. Particularly from the disadvantaged areas, the combination of an inadequate education, depressed socio-economic circumstances and low employment prospects, make young people vulnerable to temptations such as crime and drugs.

The youth Empowerment Network aims to achieve this by providing bridging programmes that will prepare participants to enter proactively into life and work, and by motivating participants to take charge the participants to take charge of their lives and in particular take their next steps towards creatively securing their economic independence.

World Evangelism for Christ International

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.

Women In Service, Development, Organisation and Management - WISDOM

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.

West Africa Mission - Korea - Gambia

West Africa Mission - Korea - Gambia (TANGO)

Junior Achievement International - The Gambia

Junior Achievement International - The Gambia

PAGEANT

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.

Tesito

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.

Schools for Progress

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.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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.

Save The Children Fund - UK

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.

Nova Scotia Gambia Association

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.

International Society for Human Rights

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.

Derek Bailey Foundation

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.

June and Brian Cox Educational Project

June and Brian Cox Educational Project, UK Education Charity, email only

West Africa Mission

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.

Schools for Progress

Schools for Progress or here is a Netherlands Charity which has helped Kadeejah Nursery in Serrekunda and Sittanunku Primary School on the North Bank

People in Action

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.

World Blind Union

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.

Deafchild International

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.

Forbes Trust - The Gambia

Forbes Trust - The Gambia, (TANGO), Small-scale loans for rural women, skilled workers and school leavers involved in vegetable gardening, tie-dyeing and tailoring

United Nations World Food Programme

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.

Young Women's Christian Association

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.

Strand Educational Support Trust

Strand Educational Support Trust

FORUT

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.

Concern Universal

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.

Munazamat Aldawa Al Islamia

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.

Muslim Aid

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.

SDRD - Support to Decentralised Rural Development Programme

SDRD - Support to Decentralised Rural Development Programme

Agency for Personal Services Overseas

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.

Malvern Girls College Gambia Project

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.

Christian Children's Fund

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.

Association for Intervention, Cooperation and Development

Association for Intervention, Cooperation and Development, (TANGO), provides services to sustain and expand the primary health system in the Eastern region of the Gambia

International Council for Education of Visually Impaired

International Council for Education of Visually Impaired

Kingfisher Trust

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.

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights

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

Ardingly Old Jeshwang Association

Ardingly Old Jeshwang Association, UK Medical Charity, email only

Schools for Gambia

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.

National Youth Council - Gambia

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.

Children of the Gambia

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.

Medical Research Council - Gambia

Medical Research Council - Gambia Scientific research and documentation

Kabafita Fund

Kabafita Fund, UK Education Charity, email only

Marlborough Brandt Group - MBG

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).

Save Our Souls

Save Our Souls, TANGO

International Trypanotolerance Centre

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".

Project Aid Third World

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.

Save The Children Federation - USA

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.

Lend a Hand Society

Lend a Hand Society

Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism

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.

Young Men's Christian Association

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.

ADRA International

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.