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.