Organisations NGOs - A to Z Types of NGOs

Rural Development Agencies in Gambia

Adventist Development & Relief Agency
Greater Banjul area, Kanifing Municipality

ADRA is an international humanitarian relief organisation & charity alleviating rural poverty in Gambia through helping in education, primary health, food security & disaster preparedness.

Africa Muslims Agency
Kanifing South, Banjul area, Western Region

AMA is a humanitarian charity which is active in providing essential food & potable water for the poor, health & education aid, funding village community projects.

Agency For The Development
of Women & Children
ADWAC is a Banjul registered rural development NGO

agency working with Gambian women & children in poverty in agricultural communities by aiding schools, healthcare, skills training, adult education, food security etc.

Agency For Village Support
Janjanbureh, Kaur Wharf Town, Central River Region

AVISU is an organization whose areas of intervention are in child support, farming assistance, enterprise development & literacy programmes in the countryside.

Campaign For Development
& Solidarity
50 Garba Jahumpa Road, Bakau, Western Region

FORUT, from Norway, aims to elevate standard of living women & youth through health education, relief work, adult vocational training, anti-substance abuse schemes.

CARITAS
Kairaba Avenue, Kanifing Municipality, Ksmd

CADO (Catholic Development Office) works with the rural population on agricultural productivity, community gardens, animal husbandry, malaria & HIV & skills training.

Child Youth Support &
Rural Development Agency
Bundung, Serrekunda & Basse Santa Su

CYSARDA is an NGO working with women & youth in the Upper River Region on savings & loans, nursery sponsorship, family planning, farm yields, soil erosion.

United Purpose (UP)
Fajara M Section

Since 1992 UP has worked with other NGOs & charities to raise the standards of the deprived in rural & urban areas; aiming to raise rural incomes, tackle AIDS, raise disaster preparedness.

Friends of The Gambia Association
Banjul area, Kotu Layout, Hermann Gmeiner Highway

FoTGA focuses on alleviating poverty, farm projects, animal rearing, food distribution, healthcare facilities, school buildings & education sponsorship.

Future In Our Hands

FIOH, in Kotu South, aims its attention on rural communities. Its intervention areas are agriculture & food security, entrepreneurship, gender, environment, health, youth & female capacity building.

Gambia Rural Development
Agency
Lower River Region, Soma Town

GARDA is engaged in developing village agriculture, fair-trade bee keeping, local enterprise development, crafts and environmental awareness activities.

Green Trust
Bundung, Kombo St. Mary District, Banjul area

This is a rural community based NGO aiding the people of Soma & the Lower River Region in forest management, tree planting & environmental preservation.

Gunjur Environmental Protection
& Development Group

GEPADG is a grass roots organisation tackling coastal degradation, deforestation, tree-planting exercises, crop garden farming, microfinancing & eco-tourism.

Human Development Society
6 Kombo Sillah Drive, Serrekunda, Banjul area

HDS works with Gambian communities in the Western & Lower River Regions on raising agricultural productivity & providing improved healthcare facilities & services.

International Relief & Development
2 Dan Fodio Street, Bakau New Town

IRD is an international rural development agency working in agricultural productivity, environment & forestry to lift country people out of poverty & self-sufficiency.

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Types of NGOs

NGOs - A to Z

Organisations

Above you will find background information details on the list of rural civil society organizations (CSOs), their intervention areas, contact addresses, telephone numbers, some emails, faxes & main locations in the Greater Banjul area of the west coast region, Kombo District & up river areas of The Gambia, West Africa.