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.
Directions:
Near Serrekunda's old Tipper Garage.
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