by Emily Lundberg | Jul 1, 2021 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
The Niamina West Well Rehabilitation and Handwashing Tour will fix wells in eight villages. Niamina West is among the 11 districts of Central River Region of The Gambia. It is bordered with Jarra East District and stretches from the South Bank Trans-Gambia highway up...
by Emily Lundberg | Jan 9, 2021 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
Lower River Region’s Jarra Central Handpump Repair Tour Water Charity’s Lower River Region water remediation tourseeks to repair fivevillage handpumpsinThe Gambia’s Jarra Central District, an important region for inter-territorial trade and movement between The Gambia...
by Emily Lundberg | Jan 8, 2021 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
SIX VILLAGES: Njie Kunda, Mutabbeh, Sareh-Molloh, Tumanni-Fatty, Taimantu Sinchu-kulairu, Sareh Batchi Location of Project NjieKunda, Central River Region, Fulladu West, The Gambia Description of Project Community Located just south of the Gambian River and off of the...
by Emily Lundberg | Nov 30, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
In Kiang East, as in the rest of rural The Gambia, declining per capita food production has been a long-standing problem. This problem is compounded by a projected near-doubling of the country population. The situation is particularly worrisome in rural settlements...
by Emily Lundberg | Nov 11, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
Lower River Region’s Kiang Central Hand-Pump Repair & Hand-Washing Tour The Lower River Division (LRD) is divided into six districts: Jarra Central, Jarra East, Jarra West, Kiang Central, Kiang East, and Kiang West. In Kiang West, as in most of The Gambia’s...
by Emily Lundberg | Oct 30, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
GambiaRising, Trees for the Future, and WASH for development We believe liberating women and girls from the duty of fetching water is the key to real development. It frees up women’s time for income production and girls’ time for school. In our...
by Emily Lundberg | Oct 30, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
WASH GIS MAPPING In each country covered by our Water for Everyone initiative, we recruited local WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene)-related workers, trained them, outfitted them with GPS-enabled smart tablets loaded with our GIS water survey and a list of the...
by Emily Lundberg | Oct 30, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
In rural areas, and in many of the under-resourced informal settlements in The Gambia, the lack of access to water and soap poses a serious challenge in curbing the spread of COVID-19. In response to the danger of community spread, Water Charity is now constructing...
by Emily Lundberg | Oct 30, 2020 | Water For Everyone - The Gambia
Fixing Broken Wells In the Most Water Challenged Communities Uneven distribution of fresh sources and constraints in water resources development and management make water access difficult for many segments of the Gambian population, especially those in the rural areas...
by Emily Lundberg | Oct 30, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
Sustainable Development Goal 6.1: Safe and affordable drinking waterUnited Nations definition: “By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.” The “Water for Everyone” initiative uses GIS...
by Jah۞Sun | Apr 15, 2020 | Water For Everyone, Water For Everyone - The Gambia
Around 40 km east of the capital of Banjul as the crow flies, cut off from the coast by the River Gambia to the north and Bintang Bolon to the south, Kiang West district is a thinly populated expanse of forest, farmland, and mangroves. The district is home to Kiang...
