Friday, February 12, 2010

Gambia Link

Gambia Link, UK Education Charity, email only

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Freedom From Hunger

Freedom From Hunger works to increase food production through the development and improvement of infrastructure in swamp rice cultivation.

Its aim is to establish food self-sufficiency at village level.

Projects include construction of seed stores and cereal banks and provision of remuneration in cash and kind to communities participating in food work so as to combat the adverse effects of the famine months

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

United Nations Population Fund

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA's mandate is to build the knowledge and the capacity to respond to needs in population and family planning, to promote awareness of population problems in both developed and developing countries and possible strategies to deal with these problems, to assist developing countries, at their request, in dealing with their population problems, in the forms and means best suited to the individual country's needs and to play a leading role in the United Nations System in promoting population programmes, and to coordinate projects supported by the Fund.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Gambia Education Support Organization

Gambia Education Support Organization Gambia Education Support Organization is an internattional collaboration whose mission is to provide assistance to Gambians and Gambian institutions in education in The Gambia, to provide intellectual, material, logistic and other support to individuals and institurions in need at all levels of education in the Gambia, to facilitate access to information and resources on education and research in the Gambia and to improve co-ordination and communication among members to support education in the Gambia.

A major project at present is to improve the library facilities at The Gambia College.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Friends of KAUR

Friends of KAUR (email only) is a UK Charity which supports three schools, the community and a hospital in Kaur.

Containers are shipped to The Gambia with commodities from toys and clothes to office equipment and stationery.