Child Youth Support and Rural Development Agency

Child Youth Support and Rural Development Agency, (TANGO), focuses on child/youth support and rural development, including basic education for children and skills training for all.

It also works on health and family planning projects. It supports horticultural development projects and adoption of improved farming techniques, programs to arrest soil degradation and deforestation and to implementation of ecological intervention systems

Youth Empowerment Network, Parklands, South Africa

Youth Empowerment Network work creatively with young disadvantaged and unemployed South Africans, to overcome inner oppression, and develop self-confidence, lifeskills, and leadership qualities, as the bridge to a productive life.

The mission of the Youth Empowerment Network is to empower out of school and out of work youth that are at risk in South Africa. Particularly from the disadvantaged areas, the combination of an inadequate education, depressed socio-economic circumstances and low employment prospects, make young people vulnerable to temptations such as crime and drugs.

The youth Empowerment Network aims to achieve this by providing bridging programmes that will prepare participants to enter proactively into life and work, and by motivating participants to take charge the participants to take charge of their lives and in particular take their next steps towards creatively securing their economic independence.

Children of the Gambia

Children of the Gambia This UK charity was founded in 1997, when it sent its first 36 boxes.

Over the last three years they have sent a forty foot container with nursery equipment, medical supplies, desks, chairs, and books, from which many schools and nurseries have benefited.

They have a library, a school in Manjai Kunda, and they have built their first nursery school in Kusalang, which will be called Children of the Gambia.

Cullingeworth Methodist Church are funding the building of Nyodema Nursery School through Children of the Gambia.

SOS Children’s Villages – The Gambia

SOS Children’s Villages – The Gambia SOS Kinderdorf International first became active in the Gambia with the construction of the SOS Children’s Village Bakoteh in 1980.

Since then the SOS operation has grown continuously and has established itself as an integral part of the local community.

Today there are 10 family houses and 77 Children of different age groups live with their SOS Mothers in the Family Houses.

The project also includes a kindergarten, schools and vocational training facilities.

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.

Friends of the Gambian African Christian School

Friends of the Gambian African Christian School is a UK based charity set up to help educate children of the Gambia, in particular those who attend the GACS run by the Reverend Richard Jackson.

At the present time they are a small charity run by a few people.

Their initial goal is to raise enough money to construct a school building in the village of Essau on the piece of land given to the Reverend by the village chief.

With the school building in place they will then need to supply funds to pay teachers and provide school equipment.