For blind and partially sighted children in the Gambia the future is bleak without education. Supporting the School is vital to ensure that the children receive the education they so enthusiastically crave and so richly deserve. Many children at the school come from backgrounds which would distress even the most stony-hearted reader. It is not unusual for children who are blind to be abandoned by their parents and thrown on the mercy of the village where they live. When we began to get to know the children we were touched and horrified by the conditions in many of them live. Friends of GOVI offers these children hope, security and justice in a world which has previously offered them nothing.