Part of our summer camp 2017 team arrived to The Gambia yesterday evening. They will be staying for one month educating children in Dippa Kunda area and also helping in Africmed clinical laboratory founded by Dr. Jagne. Our mission ‘Be The Change’ is to start building career & educational center in The Gambia. We will …
We, the volunteers, have decided to step together and enable all children and other participants approximately 110 free school meals a day during the summer camp. Every day we will personally hand out the food. With only 5 EUR per child we can cover their meals for an entire month of the summer camp. Nine local teachers …
What is the hardest thing for travelers to get used to when coming to The Gambia? Do you know? Is it food, hot sun, local transport, work in the school or the clinic, bargaining, dust, getting to know new people and places, high sea waves…? NO! The hardest to be accustomed to is that the …
WHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE AFRAID OF VOLUNTEERING AND TRAVELING TO THE GAMBIA According to the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Africa is one of the fastest growing tourism regions of the last decade! Yet, despite this rapid growth of visitors, Africa is still last on the list of popular destinations for general tourists, and it …
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘MOTHER’? YOU ARE HER MOTHER. I went to The Gambia without any expectations, but with one single wish – to meet Princess, my protégé. When we first met Princess and her mother, her mother said to her ‘look who is here, your mother’. It pinched me in the heart. What do …
In July 2017, there will be an international summer camp for the fourth year already! A team of 23 ambitious, creative and energetic volunteers from Slovenia, Austria and Holland established a working group, which will contribute to better results on the spot! Volunteers are fundraising for school meals as they don’t want any child to learn …