 
Contact Address:
United
Purpose
Banjul area head office
Ousman Dan Fodio Street
Fajara M Section
PO Box 2164, Serrekunda
Kanifing Municipality, Ksmd
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 4396071 / 4396072 / 7759698
Fax:
4494474
Email: up.uk@united-purpose.org
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Information:
The United Purpose (UP) Gambia chapter was founded
in 1992, positively working in concert with various
Gambian relief charities and other development NGOs
in order to improve the welfare and standards
of living of the economically deprived in urban and
rural communities.
United Purpose is an international NGO which determined
to meeting the basic requirements of remote and impoverished
village communities, who by their very geographic locations
are distant from most public amenities such as schools,
running water, pharmacies and hospitals.
UP main targets are in finding ways to increase and
maintain steady rural incomes; slowing the expansion
of AIDS / HIV between people, enhance the preparedness
of communities to evade and react to natural disasters
such as floods and droughts.
United Purpose set up an office base in Senegal in 1992
and has, among other aid agencies, been supporting displaced
refugees and communities in the Foni District of The
Gambia and the neighbouring Casamance region caused
by the civil war.
Gambia
Is Good:
This is a fruit and vegetable business which is as a
result of collaborative
initiative between UP and Haygrove UK. It is a distribution
centre for small Gambian farmers which is hoped will
allow them to make the transition from subsistence living
to cash crop farming.
Main UK Charity:
The main Hereford base charity in the UK was founded
in 1976 and has a staff of over 500. UP has expended
more than £123 million on various community schemes
around the world on some of the most deprived.
Today United Purpose works in 9 countries most of which
are in East and West Africa with a branch also in
Brazil and Bangladesh.
Directions:
Off the Kairaba Avenue behind the
War Cemetery
in Bakau / Fajara. |
