Child Aid Gambia

March 30, 2013 by truecharity

 

Child Aid Gambia was created by Katy Roberts, an English schoolgirl, with the help of her father Chris and with the support of Gambian volunteers in Serrekunda.

Child Aid Gambia works predominantly with desperately poor children living in the bush of the western division of the Gambia and at Chessay Ma Jaw village on the North Bank in West Africa, those who in one way or another are unable to help themselves.

This small charity collects clothes, books, toys and equipment to send out to the Gambia where they are distributed to needy children, some of whom live in appalling conditions on a rubbish tip outside the capital city Banjul. Child Aid Gambia also sponsors children of school age as schooling in the Gambia is not compulsory and has to be paid for.

Ndagan at Wenchu

Most Gambians don’t even know that this settlement exists or where it is located. Child Aid Gambia is paying for a water supply to be installed so that the children here have access to a clean water supply, at the moment they have no water supply or sanitation.

Hart House at Sinchu Alhajie Village Kombo North

Here short-term respite residential care for poor disabled Gambian children and children with severe/profound learning difficulties is being provided. Hart House was set up by an Englishman Geoff Hunwicks with the help of his wife Rohey in 2001.

 

“100 years from now, it won’t matter what kind of house you lived in, what kind of car you drove, or how much money you had.

All that will matter is the difference you made while you were alive.” -Katy Roberts-

Website: www.childaidgambia.org