Kingfisher Trust

Kingfisher Trust aims to direct resources and donated equipment where it is most needed, encourage self-sufficiency by offering skills training, help raise educational standards by assisting with basic school equipment, especially in nursery schools, to encourage a sense of community in villages by working with people on local projects and to form a link between children and schools in Europe and The Gambia.

Projects have included providing medical equipment and two ventilators for the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, linking with UNESCO Clubs and The President’s Award Scheme in the skills training of young people, providing typewriters and computers for schools, providing sewing machines and tools for villages and skills centres, with the generous assistance of ‘Tools with a Mission’ and providing machine tools for technical skills.

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights The Centre’s activities are carried out in four main units: Management; Training; Information and Documentation; and Legal and Research.

The African Centre serves as a bridge between the African human rights NGOs, the governments and the general public. It disseminates information on human rights bodies and situations in various African countries. It also serves as an educational channel for human rights NGOs.

The Centre prepares manuals for human rights teaching in schools, from the primary to higher levels. The Centre also runs a women’s programme and works to remove the barriers that impede women’s growth and development

Ardingly Old Jeshwang Association

Ardingly Old Jeshwang Association, UK Medical Charity, email only

Schools for Gambia

Schools for Gambia, (new website), is a UK Charity working mainly with rural schools.

They also sponsor children and currently 80 are sponsored through supporters of the charity.

They concentrate on one project at a time seeing it through to completion so that they can control how the money is being spent.

They send school materials out to Gambia and have been supplied with seeds by Suttons for vegetable gardens at Jinak and maybe all the other schools they help.

Medical Research Council – Gambia

Medical Research Council – Gambia Scientific research and documentation

Kabafita Fund

Kabafita Fund, UK Education Charity, email only

Marlborough Brandt Group – MBG

Marlborough Brandt Group – MBG, is a UK charity which has developed links with the village of Gunjur.

They have initiated a wide range of supportive programmes including health education, business education, numeracy, literacy, a credit union and loan scheme, exchange of young volunteers, clean water supply and institutional capacity-building.

They are also active in the field of development education in the UK through the Wiltshire World Studies Centre (WWSC).

Save Our Souls

Save Our Souls, TANGO