Aims and activities: - The organisation aims to promote rural childhood education, rural health care, welfare and rights. Areas of expertise: - Children and citizenship, Children and health, Environment and habitat

Defence for Children international (DCI) is an independent non-governmental organisation set up during the International Year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promot

Our organization provides free educational materials to disadvantaged rural schools in The Gambia and also gives scholarships to orphans and academically-gifted but poor students. We also establish skills development centres for people with disabilities, s

Background: The Gambian National Commission for Justice and Peace was established on April 22, 1993. It was a response to the challenge Pope Paul VI issued to all Christians in 1967: "If you want peace, work for justice." Objectives: Its objective is "to t

The mission of GAMFINET is to facilitate and promote access to financial services aimed at poverty reduction for low income people in the rural and urban areas; and to facilitate inter-agency collaboration and increase grassroots participation in socio eco

GAWFA is a not-for-profit NGO established in 1987. It serves as a financial intermediary to enhance the entrepreneurship development of women as a means of eradicating their poverty. It also serves as a vehicle for mainstreaming women in national developme

OIC International (OICI) is a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States. Since 1970, OICI has been improving the quality of life of low-income, disadvantaged individuals through the provision of skills training, business development, healt

Interxchange Gambia, a reputable academic travel organisation in The Gambia, aims at promoting social, educational and cultural travel amongst students, youths and adults aimed at increasing international understanding through cultural and educational prog

The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa is a non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organization, based in The Gambia, West Africa. It was founded in 1997 by two human rights lawyers who had previously worked for the Secretariat of the A

IFAD’s strategy in the Gambia : IFAD projects in the Gambia have become more demand-driven, increasingly developing rural poor people’s participation in planning and implementation. For the purpose of accumulating know-how and reducing the risk of failure,