ChildFund The Gambia

ChildFund The Gambia Federation partner, Ding-Ding Yiriwa Federation hands over vital gardening materials to communities in Kombo North and South districts to enhance horticulture production in the area for improved socioeconomic development amongst women. Access to these inputs and implements funded by ChildFund, will boost vegetable production for families using backyard gardens, who would use the produce to provide our children nutritious food, and sell the excess to earn an income. #empowerment #foodsecurity #horticulture

Let’s provide the best #education for our children, including sexual reproductive health education.

Education for Protection and Wellbeing (EPW) program brings together all #children actors to work for children’s development, growth and Protection. We tested it in two schools two years ago and it proofed to be very successful, hence, we scaled it up, adding 8 other schools in West Coast Region to the program under the project “Promoting Primary Education in 8 Schools” in West Coast Region funded by BMZ. That’s why #ChildFund organized two weeks training for teachers on Social and Emotional Learning and Self Protection. The key competencies for children in self protection covered include; 1. Children being able to identify their rights and responsibility. 2. Knowing safe and unsafe situations. 3. Identify networks of trusted adults. 4. Assertiveness. 5. Reporting mechanism (knowing when and how to report) Great job Bakary Seedy Dampha (Buba) and Team! #education #protection #empowerment

To all our partners, children, families of our children, and our general audiences:

Children should be in school and not in the streets! One of the key messages from ChildFund Country Director, Musu Komma, during a meeting in Bakau, in the ongoing caravan tour of communities in the Greater Banjul Area to sensitize them on the importance of enrolling children and retaining them in school, especially girls. The activity is part of the implementation of the Zero Out Of School #Children (ZOOSC) project funded by Educate a Child, and jointly implemented by UNICEF Gambia, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, ChildFund and EFANet Gambia. The project aims to enroll over 66,000 out of school children including children with disability, and retain those vulnerable of dropping out of school, especially girls. #education #opportunities

ChildFund Country Director Musu Komma receives prominent Gambian Artist, Sona Jobarteh at her office. During a meeting, Musu discussed ChildFund's program principles with the prominent artist, while expressing commitment to partner with organizations of shared vision and mission to promote, protect, and enhance lives of children in The Gambia. Sona Jobarteh, a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer expressed her willingness to collaborate with ChildFund through the GAMBIA ACADEMY, an academy she founded in The Gambia 2015, which supports the holistic development of children. "It is not all about funding, but we must be ready to invest in African human resources and mental capacity for sustainability,” says Sona. She added that the GAMBIA ACADEMY is just starting but will surely expand beyond the frontiers of the Gambia. Both Sona and ChildFund agree to a planned joint site visit soon. #Partnership #children #youthempowerment

It's International Day of The Girl! Empowering girls is crucial to creating inclusive, open and prosperous societies. That's why ChildFund Country Director, Musu Komma, Ag. Director Children's Affairs at the Ministry of Gender, Children & Social Welfare, Ms Harriet Bass, Western Region deputy governor, Baba Galleh Jallow, Country Coordinator, Child Protection Alliance, Lamin Fatty, and managers, ChildFund Federation partners, Sunkaru Jatta and Alieu Mendy joined the girls in Brikama to celebrate with them. As duty bearers, they also listened to concerns raised by the girls and promise action to ensure all girls realize their dreams. Happy #IDG2024 to all girls around the world! #empowerment #protection #girls

More than 100 women in Badume koto village can now grow and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables from this community garden where ChildFund The Gambia installed a powerful solar-powered water system for the community in Jarra Central district of The Gambia. Children will have access to nutritious food and their caregivers will earn extra income from sale of the garden produce as ChildFund Country Director, Musu Komma hands over the well equipped borehole to the community. “With this reliable water system, ChildFund has created an amazing economic empowerment project for my community. We thank ChildFund for this life changing intervention, says the village chief of Badume koto, Seedy Sonko. #womenempowerment #foodselfsufficiency

These school #children used to walk 6 - 7 kilometers to their school in Bafuloto, in the North Bank Region. But that’s no more, thanks to these bikes provided for them by ChildFund under the Zero Out Of School Children project funded by Education Above All Foundation through UNICEF Gambia, and being implemented by the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, The Gambia, ChildFund and EFANet Gambia. ChildFund pledged 3,000 bikes towards the project, and has so far delivered 1,500 to the ministry for onward distribution to the children who need them most. #educationforall #education #bikes

When children have access to learning materials, it contributes to their attainment of quality education. That's why ChildFund International working with its Local Partners in The Gambia provides learning materials to over 10,000 children annually at the start of each school year. As schools reopen this week, one of our Local Partners, Ding Ding-Ding Yiriwa Federation hands over learning materials to children in Kombo North and South districts. "I am no more worried when schools reopen because I know that my children will receive their back-to-school package from Ding-Ding Yiriwa Federation," says one of the parents of our children, Elizabeth, seen here smiling after receiving some books for her children.