The Gambia Experience

The Gambia Experience is the leading tour operator to The Gambia offering flights and holidays all year round.

The 72 page brochure features the widest range of holidays including beach hotels, Makasutu eco-lodges, birdwatching, fishing and photography tours.

Flights available from Bristol, Manchester and Gatwick.

An AITO 3 star responsible tour operator, The Gambia Experience run their own School Development Fund, supporting education across the country.

Gambia Rural Development Agency – GRUDA

Gambia Rural Development Agency – GRUDA, (TANGO), operates throughout The Gambia to promote social and economic development especially in the rural areas.

It assists in the coordination of activities relating to rural development at all levels as a voluntary organization.

Jammeh Foundation for peace – Gambia

Jammeh Foundation for peace – Gambia

Friends of The Gambia Association

Friends of The Gambia Association is a UK charity which operates a sponsorship scheme and sends a variety of goods to The Gambia including both medical and educational equipment.

FOTGA funds small projects in schools and villags throughout The Gambia.

Friends of Manding

Friends of Manding is a UK Charity supporting the work of Dr. Alhasan Ceesay, a doctor at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul since 1992. During his spare time Dr.

Ceesay runs the Manding Medical Centre with the help of other doctors (some from overseas) where he sees around 1000 patients in 2 days.

Lorna Robinson, a nurse at the Colchester General Hospital set up Friends of Manding to raise funds for a new hospital at the centre in Njawara village on the North Bank of the river Gambia.

Gambia Food and Nutrition Association

Gambia Food and Nutrition Association, (TANGO), supports Community Management Committees who manage health and nutrition programs at the field level.

Projects include schemes to combat malnutrition in rural areas, especially among pregnant and nursing mothers and their children.

They also assist rural women in implementing income generating projects using local Gambian food crops

Education for Development

Education for Development is an independent development charity offering training, research and consultancy in non-formal education and training for adults and children.

They work alongside those engaged in development programmes both overseas and in the UK, to help them to develop their own capacity to deliver effective, quality development programmes.

They are involved with Deafaxin their current work in The Gambia.

Glosaid

Glosaid Glosaid is a registered charity whose main aim is to help educate children in The Gambia, particularly at Lamin-Daranka Primary School.

They are based in Gloucestershire and The Gambia. Glosaid holiday lets are one way of supporting Glosaid.

The charity also has a sponsorship scheme for the children.

Gambia Rural Development Agency – GARDA

Gambia Rural Development Agency – GARDA, (TANGO), exists to improve the socio-economic well-being of rural Gambians in Lower River Division, North Bank Division, Central River Division, particularly the poorest households and most disadvantaged groups, namely women and children.

The agency aims to improve agricultural production through seed store construction, farmer training and reforestation and to establish a variety of income generation projects for the rural population.

They give special attention the education of youth.

Future in Our Hands – FIOH

Future in Our Hands – FIOH is a Swedish charity which works to improve basic education.

Its major project is the building of a school featuring kitchens designed specifically for hygienic and energy-saving cooking.

The charity also supplies furniture to schools.