Contact Address Details:
SOS
Children's Village
Banjul
Bakoteh Estate
Hermann Gmeiner
Highway
P.M.B. 3269 Banjul
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 446 6714
446 6715
Fax:
446 6716
Email: oumou.tall@sos-kd.org
Branches:
Basse Santa Su
Directions:
Near Serrekunda's
old Tipper Garage.
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Information:
The SOS Children's Village in Gambia incorporates the SOS
Kindergarten and the
Hermann Gmeiner
Primary School and a secondary school. All are under their
main umbrella organisation called the SOS Kinderdorf International.
Its main focus is on youth training, education and healthcare.
The international charity organisation became involved in
The Gambia back in 1980 after noting that an increasing number
of children were left in the urban areas to survive largely
by themselves. As a result Kinderdorf International sent
Mr. Otto Brönnimann
as the first head of the Children's Village which was founded
in 1982. It is located in Bakoteh just over 11 miles from
the capital of Banjul.
Since its establishment many new facilities have been added
to the centre. In 1984 the Vocational Training Centre was
opened. It trains youths in acquiring practical skills to
pursue gainful employment. Such training included auto mechanic
training, metal fabrication and carpentry. A further vocational
centre was opened in April 1999 for use by staff and moms.
Her mothers are taught a curriculum that includes home economics,
childcare & development, art & craft, simple agricultural
techniques and textiles.
In 1991 the SOS Youth Homes was opened. They housed village
youths over 16 years of age. Here they are taught self-sufficiency
and better prepare them for adulthood. They are helped by
an advisor who also helps them to find a job.
There is a fully equipped medical centre that treats 10,000
women and children out-patients a year. There are children's
and maternity wards, ultrasound machine, a dispensing pharmacy,
X-ray room and radiographer and other health facilities.
Facilities & Centres:
1 Youth Facility;
2 nursery schools;
1 Vocational Training Centre;
(Technical
Secondary School)
Sports facilities, garden
3
Hermann Gmeiner
Schools;
1 Social Centre and 1 Medical Centre;
1 Regional SOS Mothers' & Adult Training Centre;
2 SOS Children's Villages in the Gambia.
Basse:
At the Basse Town branch they have a nursery, a Lower &
Upper Basic School (Primary School) and around 80 child residents
of the charity Village.
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