Friends of Visually Impaired Children in the Gambia - Links to other charites and NGOs working in the Gambia

The listings below are believed to include the vast majority of UK registered charities working only in The Gambia. Please contact Carol Haynes if you have any links to add to this page or correct.They also includes many UK charities and organisations which specifically include The Gambia in their wider (or indeed worldwide) area and have offices or projects in The Gambia. I would like to acknowledge the excellent resources at The Directory of Development Organisations as the source of some of this valuable information.

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1	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.	1047
2	Brikamaba Library UK aid Charity. Telephone 01392 873061 To relieve hardship and distress among the people of Dasilame in particular by the provision of a bridge and other facilities of benefit to the community.	793
3	Brufut Learning Centre Brufut Learning Centre is a vocational learning centre for learners who cannot read or write, where courses will be underpinned with 'Basic Skills' including ITC, all will be delivered within the National Curriculum (UK) The centre will offer a low fee education. All students have to be over the age of 14 and have had no formal education. These learners need education and encouragement to allow them self worth as well as progression, which in turn could help each one to pass on their gained knowledge to their family, friends and people in the village. The Centre hopes to use UK qualifications and courses. (Charity not currently registered in the UK)	809
4	Castellan West African Trust 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.	891
5	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.	994
6	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	973
7	Credence Charitable Trust Credence Charitable Trust is a UK Charity supporting The Credence Nursery School. The school was founded in 1994 by young people in Latrikunda Sabiji and registered by the department of state for education in the same year. The young people were inspired by the President Award Scheme Programmes in The Gambia, known in England as the Duke of Edinburgh Award International Association. The nursery at present is funded through school fees. The land which the school stands on is not owned by the school, instead the two classrooms are on a rental basis. The charity's aim is to purchase a piece of land big enough to build a school complex on freehold land.	780
8	The Deafax Trust The Deafax Trust is the only organisation in the UK dedicated to the education, training, research and development of ICT for deaf children. Deafax is training teachers of the deaf to maximise the benefits of ICT as a teaching tool. This has evolved into a number of training programmes which are now available to share with deaf children and educators internationally. Comic Relief are funding a programme to improve the communication skills, literacy and employment prospects for deaf people in The Gambia. As a first step, Deafax staff have visited the Gambia Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (GADHOH) to set up the personal computer that has been obtained with the funds and to offer training in Gambia and the UK to GADHOH staff.	877
9	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 and are registered with Deefax by the UK Charities Commission.	1422
10	FirstAid 4 Gambia A registered Scottish Charity supplying first aid supplies and training to nurseries and schools in The Gambia.	729
11	Roots Nursery School Roots Nursery School was founded on 8th April 2002, and is situated in the village of Juffureh, 30km from Banjul, the capital of Gambia.	788