Contact Address:
Agency
For Village Support 
Head Office
Kaur Wharf Town
Janjanbureh (Georgetown)
Central River Region North
(CRR), Lower Saloum
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 5748045 / 5748090
9904915
Fax:
5748090
Email: avisu@qanet.gm
lowekebba@hotmail.com
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Information:
 The
Agency For Village Support is located in the Central
River Region in the town of Kaur in Lower Saloum. The
organisation became an independent and fully registered
non-governmental organisation in 2006 after the charity
Village Aid (VATG-UK) made a change to its official
name.
AVISU's aim is advocating and working for the vulnerable
and poor people with a particular focus on the welfare
of marginalised Gambian women in rural communities.
The agency has over the years kept cohesive working
associations with various NGOs engaged in the area of
rural development such as GAFNA (agriculture / food)
and NACCUG (credit unions) to deliver more coordinated
and targeted aid delivery mechanism to the poor and
needy.
Some of AVISU's assistance has taken the form of manpower
saving equipment such as rice milling machines as well
as micro-financing of small business enterprises, organisational
capacity building, literacy schemes, training for farmers
on rice production, preservation and processing techniques,
creating community farms with water wells, lobbying
of central and local government as well as large commercial
firms and civic sensitisation.
Areas of Activity:
• Agricultural Extension Support
• Child Support Project
• Civic Education
• Enterprise Development
• Literacy Projects |
