 
Contact Address:
Catholic
Relief Services
40 Atlantic Road
Fajara M Section, Bakau
PO Box 568, Banjul
Kanifing Municipality, Ksmd
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 4498001 / 4498000
Fax:
4498007
Email: nicole.poirier@crs.org Kairaba
Avenue 
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Information:
 The
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was originally established
in the USA in 1943 by Catholic Bishops to bring humanitarian
relief
to the deprived and disadvantaged around the world.
It represents the overseas development and humanitarian
relief branch of the United States Catholic Conference
(USCC) and finances schemes in over 70 countries.
CRS was founded in The Gambia in 1964 and is an NGO
status Christian charity mission whose intervention
areas are in urban and rural
capacity building, agricultural development, microfinance,
health & nutrition,
malaria control, adult literacy and numeracy skills
programs and Aids/HIV
advisory.
It runs the Adult
Literacy and Early Childhood Care and Development
program which is focused in 13 ECCD institutions covering
daycare and nursery
schools for children from 3 to 7 years old.
Their agricultural
development programme aims to move farmers away from
subsistence level and onto selling cash crops. To this
end it introduced sesame into the Gambian farming system
in 1980 because it was drought resistant and less labour
intensive during the busy season. It established 16
community based sesame seed oil processing mills around
the country in order to stimulate sesame growing and
processing.
Branches:
Catholic Relief Services
Kairaba Avenue &
60 OAU Boulevard 
PO Box 568, Banjul
Tel no: 4227120 / 4227121
Email: crsgm@gamtel.gm
Catholic
Relief Services
Headquarters
228 W. Lexington St.
Baltimore
Maryland 21201-3443
USA
Tel no: +1 888-277-7575 |
