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Charities
Education
Health
Charities Organisations |
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Lisa Kent
Memorial Trust
The Trust established charitable status in 2005
continuing projects already underway from 2002. They
now have in excess of 150 children sponsored in
nursery (3-7 years) and primary education across a
variety of schools in Gambia.
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Albaraca
Nursery School [Sukuta]
The charity organisation aims to provide quality nursery education
by providing good educational materials, well trained teachers,
and a varied learning regime and to benefit the local community by providing
clothes, blankets, and some basic medicines.
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Association For Child Education
The charity
is based in the North Bank District of Gambia and
its aims are to support child education & welfare.
Its various projects are focused around educational
infrastructure, children's rights and promoting good
health.
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Children
of The Gambia
Children of The Gambia Nursery is a
fundraising charity and educational organisation.
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Christian Community of Latrikunda
The CCLK society was formed 10 years ago by a group of
young Gambian Christians who today plan to open a
Nursery/ Primary School & provide medical facilities
for the poor in the area.
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First Aid
4 Gambia
A charity who are supplying First
Aid equipment and training to nursery schools in
Gambia. In 2009 / 2010 they have equipped 24
schools. In 2011 they intend to re-supply them,
advance their training and add more schools in to
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Francis DeGaulle Njie Foundation
Named after a former MIT computer
professional who passed away in 2005. Its aims are
to promote science education in the Gambia by giving
financial assistance to students in the field of
science.
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Friends
of Govi
A UK charity registered (number:
1070173) since 1998
which helps support Gambia's only School for the
Blind by assisting The Gambian Organisation for the
Visually Impaired.
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Friends
of Gambian Schools
The main objectives of FROGS (UK
registered charity no. 1069168) is to improve the educational environment of
pupils and teachers in schools.
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Friends
of the Gambian Education Projects
The Friends Of The Gambian
Education Projects is a UK based charity set up to help educate children of the Gambia. It now supports the work of
GETS which is being set up in the UK to sponsor educational work in association with Gambia Tourist Support.
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Gambia
Building Links in Education [Gam BLE]
A small UK based charity, which helps provide nursery and primary school education in the village of Farato, near Banjul airport.
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Gambia Education & Teaching Support
GETS is a UK registered charity
(number: 1110998) which was established in 2004 to manage,
monitor and fund raise educational projects and
sponsorships initially managed by Gambia Tourist
Support (GTS -
www.gambiatouristsupport.com organisation). They have designated Gambian staff to
monitor and carry out the responsibilities attached
to sponsorship and project management.
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Gambia
Schools Trust
The Gambian Schools Trust aids schools through providing
funding for specified projects by refurbishing existing schools
or building new
ones.
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Hart House
Gambian home for children with
learning difficulties.
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Holy
Cross Nursery School
Situated at Tranquil Village it
began when the Elders at Ghana Town who were
becoming concerned that their nursery was not
keeping up with others in the community approached
Sue Joof and Margaret Maybury for support.
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Khadeejah Memorial Nursery School
A charity set up to help re-build
the school which is over 104 years old!
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Kingfisher
Trust |
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Nova
Scotia - Gambia Association
The Nova Scotia-Gambia Association
is a non-profit development organization based in
Canada which works in partnership with Gambians to
pursue initiatives for equitable and sustainable
futures for youth.
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Pageant
Pageant is a UK registered charity
established in 2002 with its main aim of supporting education and related projects in The Gambia.
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Philippa Gregory
The British author's charity set up
in 1993 to dig wells to provide water in the gardens
of rural village schools.
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Read
To Grow
Foundation aiming to provide access
to books for all Gambian school children.
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Sambel
Kunda
Linking of two village schools - one
in rural Gambia and the other in rural Scotland.
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Shine
Africa
A organisation set up to providing
finances to build or upgrade nursery schools, buy
books and equipment as well as to to pay teachers
wages each month.
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SOS
Children's Village [Bakoteh]
Operating in The Gambia since 1980
and has since then established itself as an
integral part of the community.
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Wonder
Years Centre of Excellence
Aims to provide children with the
very best educational opportunities from a very
early age to equip them with the skills necessary
to adulthood.
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World
Links
The main aim of the training program designed to
help teachers and students learn to use information and communication technologies (particularly the Internet) to improve teaching and learning.
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Wordsley
School Project [Fajikunda]
A UK school which has pledged
financial and material support for the Family
Daycare & Nursery School in Fajikunda. They welcome
donations into their HSBC account.
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List
of Schools of The Gambia
No links on this list but is does
list schools according to geographical district
and the date that each school was founded.
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Links
to Charities & NGOs Helping Gambia
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