Catholic Relief Services works in over 30 countries throughout Africa and strives to enhance human dignity, empower the people that it helps and strengthen and support partner organizations. CRS achieves this by working in the areas of food security, peace building, HIV and AIDS, civil society building, Emergency Response and health among others. ... [according to site editor's information]
The Friends of The Gambia Association is a UK based charity NGO that supports and manages various projects in Gambia. Its aims are to relieve pain and suffering, to advance the education of the people and to help communities to help themselves by funding sustainable projects. [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
The Friends of Visually Impaired Children in The Gambia (formerly Friends of GOVI) want to co-operate with the government and other agencies, including GOVI (Gambian Organisation of the Visually Impaired), by supporting the education of visually impaired children and young people in The Gambia through raising funds to provide materials, equipment, training and facilities. ... [according to site editors information; editors ilissAfrica]
COTG is a UK based charity that works with children, their families and communities to build/renovate schools and provide the children of Gambia with free education and an improved quality of life. [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
The Africa Muslim Agency is a humanitarian and developmental NGO that works with over three thousand fulltime employed staff in more than 30 African countries "purely for the sake and progress of Islam in Africa. We pursue this mission in Africa by providing relief in respect of food to the most starving and hungry, water to the most thirsty, shelter to the most destitute, medical care to the most sick, education to the most needy and moreover, establishing poverty relief developmental projects towards ultimate self sufficiency in communities, thereby, with the Help of Allah (SWT), restoring the dignity, respect and honour of our fellow Muslims in need throughout Africa." ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
Ardingly Old Jeshwang Association is a UK based charity NGO. Its mission is the preservation of good health in The Gambia through the provision of health centre facilities and the establishment of primary health care programmes. The Association achieves these aims by encouraging direct co-operation between communities and organisations in the UK. ... [according to site editor's information]
The Nova Scotia-Gambia Association is a non-profit development organization based in Canada which works in partnership with West Africans (in Gambia and Sierra Leone) to pursue initiative for equitable and sustainable futures for youth. [according to site editor's information]
Tostan is an international NGO based in Senegal. Tostan is dedicated to educating and empowering Africans who have had little or no access to formal schooling. It works primarily in rural regions (currently in Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Somalia) to provide basic education and increase community engagement in projects related to health and hygiene, child welfare, human rights and democracy, the environment, and economic development. Its work is recognized in non-formal education and community development. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]
The mission of WACOL is to committed to help women and young people whose rights are threatend and / or have been denied and who are subjected to phyisical,mental, and/or sexual abuse. The aim of WACOL is to increase legal protection and fight for better choices for abused women and children, facilitate flow of information and experiences between organisation, and develop appropriate Information, Education and Communication materials that will be used in advocacy for human rights of women and young people. ... [according to site editor's information]
SLRDO is a Humanitarian Advocacy organization registered as a non-profit and charitable organization with the mission is to highlight and find solutions to the current socioeconomic problems facing the people of of Sierra Leone. The primary goal is to increase international public awareness of the issues facing the people and to raise funds and materials for schools, hospitals, the disadvantaged, the suffering and war victims. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]