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Education & Health - UK Gambia Mission

SPONSOR A CHILD

School Sponsorship

We have been sponsoring children at the Kachumeh SDA school since September 2020, when there were approximately 100 children in attendance. Kachumeh is an impoverished rural community, the few jobs in the area are mostly subsistence farming.

Most parents struggle to provide school fees or lack consistency in keeping up with the fees, which contribute to children not attending school. Poverty also inhibits parents from sending girls to school as they carry out domestic chores and care for other siblings instead. The Kachumeh school was in danger of closure by the education authority but was only kept open because there are no other schools within a reasonable travel distance.

Sponsoring these children helps to maintain their school attendance and to keep the school open. We believe that every child deserves access to education and no child should be left behind.


 

Sponsor a child

Feeding Program

We have introduced a feeding program at the school to ensure children have daily meals throughout the week; we are aware that some children do not have breakfast and would go all day without food which is not conducive to learning. The daily school meals are to ensure the children receive a healthy nutritious meal to enable them to grow, develop and to have the energy to study, learn and be physically active.

The sponsorship helps to:
  • Provide nutritious meals, prevent malnutrition, improve energy for learning, sustain active engagement
  • Raise aspiration and build confidence.
  • Provide education resources
  • Reduce the financial burden on parents.
  • Sustain teacher employment
  • Make a difference in the life of each child

Our aim is to sponsor more schools and children because education is a basic human right and an enabler of other rights.

You can Change A Life with a monthly contribution of £25 per month. Your life changing sponsorship contributions will cover:

  • School fees 
  • Educational resources inc, books, pens & equipment etc.
  • Daily nutritional meals
  • Gifts distributed during our annual school visits


As little as 81p per day can give a child hope & opportunity that can empower them to overcome poverty

New Way Community Clinic Health Awareness Program

The Gambia’s health sector remains relatively weak, with deteriorating physical infrastructure, lack of adequate supplies and equipment, shortages of sufficiently trained health personnel and an inadequate referral system.
We support the health program of the Seventh Day Adventist Church by sending health equipment such as blood pressure monitors, blood glucose monitors, BMI monitors, peak flow, weight & height equipment, charts, and PPE. On our annual visits, we also help in administering health checks and health workshops in partnership with the newly formed New Way Community Clinic.
In January 2021, three members of our group teamed up with a local Gambian doctor and his team to form the New Way Community Clinic, a mobile Community Clinic which can access remote village communities. This provides the locals with trained personnel and medical resources.
In March 2021, they acquired a building in a remote rural community which they converted into a clinic and is being used to raise health awareness by carrying out regular health checks.
Raising health awareness:
  • Improves health and standards of living.
  • Provides health screenings
  • Provides portable health equipment
  • Provides training and workshops
  • Provides research and development
  • Works in line with national and local health policies guidelines