Friends of GOVI - Links to other charites and NGOs working in the Gambia

Other Charities and NGOs helping The Gambia

The listings below are believed to include the vast majority of non-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/World 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	1 to 3 1 to 3 is a small charity (Charity No. 1082151) in Wellingara, The Gambia. To date they have built, and are equipping, a nursery school for 250 children, a skills centre for teenagers, teaching typing, sewing and computer studies, they have started adult literacy classes in Mandinka and Pula, installed electricity and running water to the site and constructed a modern toilet block. Their next major project is to build a Health Post for the community which will house a doctor, surgery, pharmacy, maternity care unit, and a facility for dipping mosquito nets. Meg Lyon, Chairman.	381
2	ActionAid Gambia ActionAid Gambia provides basic education and skills training, aiming for increased access to education for children and adults. It works to increase food production and improve access to marketing and sustainable agro-credit delivery services. An important role is to improve access to clean drinking water. Projects include assisting with village initiated and village managed small scale enterprises, Primary Health Care services, family planning and development of community based organisations. Consideration is always given to empowering the recipients to manage their own development and to the conservation and restoration of the environment.	441
3	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.	246
4	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.	458
5	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.	335
6	Albaraca Nursery School Albaraca Nursery School, UK Charity, 01328 830044	204
7	Anglican Mission Development Ministries Anglican Mission Development Ministries Engages in projects including non-formal education, nursery schools, skills training, relief programmes for refugees and emergency preparedness. As a Church Community the Mission is committed to making available access to resources, power, assets and knowledge as the means to its goals	287
8	Ardingly Old Jeshwang Association Ardingly is a small village in West Sussex, England. Old Jeshwang is an urban village in The Gambia. The Association has been established to relieve sickness and to promote the preservation of good health in The Gambia through the provision of health centre facilities and the establishment of primary health care programmes. The Association achieves these aims by encouraging direct co-operation between communities and organisations in the UK and The Gambia in “Tesito”, or self-help, projects.	263
9	Association of Baptists for World Evangelism Association of Baptists for World Evangelism Exists to train and assist Gambians in attaining self-sufficiency in areas of expressed need in physical educational and spiritual needs. Particular projects include health care, non-formal education and provision of a nursery school	286
10	Association of Small Scale Enterprises 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.	283
11	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.	272
12	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.	195
13	Catholic Relief Services Catholic Relief Services provides technical assistance for the implementation and sound management of agro-enterprises. It aims to increase the opportunities for farmers to move beyond subsistence level. It also provides technical assistance, support and training for the development and sustainability of Gambian NGOs and assists with capital costs of projects. It offers credit and saving promotion where appropriate	190
14	Child Hope International Child Hope International is a non-profit organization dedicated to building better future for children and families. Our desire outcome is to facilitate the development and timely implementation of a permanent safe, loving and stable home environment for every child in care at CHILD HOPE house and complete development and renovations of the CHILD HOPE Learning center. Gambian Registered Charity No 288/2000. Currently no website - please contact: Mr Arthur C. Oris, Project Director, CHI Telephone: 002207826284 Fax: 002204226300 E-mail c_h_international@yahoo.com CHI House, 21 Allen Street, Banjul, The Gambia	271
15	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.	250