Mbour Project 1- Daru Salam Village GPS: N14ᴼ25.040 W016ᴼ56.682 DARU SALAM VILLAGE is located on the outskirts of Mbour, Senegal. It has a population of about 400 people. The community is composed of Mandinka, Wollof and Serere tribes. It is predominantly Mandinka who migrated to this area from southern Senegal. The community depends on traditional […]
Upper Saloum is one of the ten districts of the Central River Region of The Gambia. The district covers an area of about 155.8 km² with a population of about 24,000, of which 44.6% are male and 55.4% female. Subsistence farming remains the dominant occupation in the district. The Central River Region is one […]
The Lower Saloum of the Central River Region is one of the poorest regions in The Gambia. Most people in the villages of Lower Saloum are engaged in subsistence farming – there is a recognized ‘hungry season’ when food is scarce but agricultural labour is most intense. There are serious environmental and ecological vulnerabilities, especially […]
Epworth community members waiting to retrieve water from an unsafe well, the water that residents retrieve from this location is dirty and unsafe. Water Charity, in partnership with Dare to Share launched a WASH initiative to meet the needs of the community. Limited access to clean water and a lack of hygiene resources are the […]
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’s population. The situation is particularly worrisome in rural settlements where farmers have lost 25% of their purchasing power over the years due to […]
Kiang West is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang Central and Kiang East, it makes up the Kiang area. In the 2013 census, it had a population of 14,953 and the current population estimate for the district is 21,800. Kiang West is home to the Kiang West National Park which was established in 1987 and is adjacent to […]
Kiang Central is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang East and Kiang West, it makes up the Kiang area. In Kiang Central, as in most of The Gambia’s rural villages, most men farm rice, groundnuts, and millet. Most women garden for subsistence food needs, as well as work in the rice fields. Farming is the main […]
Bondali District, as in The Gambia’s “Fonis,” the West Coast Region bordering Senegal’s Casamance region, has experienced intermittent turmoil overflowing from West Africa’s longest-running civil conflict, four decades of sporadic violence rooted in a separatist rebellion by neighboring Senegal’s “Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance” (MFDC). The longstanding currents of informal trade across Casamance’s northern border […]
Jarra West District is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of The Gambia. In the 2013 census, it had a population of 27,205. Its current population is estimated to be 31,900. Its main town is Soma which is a commercial town linking the Trans-Gambia corridor towards southern Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. The main occupations are farming, including crop […]
Kiang Central is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang East and Kiang West, it makes up the Kiang area. In Kiang central, as in most of The Gambia’s rural villages, most men farm rice, groundnuts, and millet. Most women garden for subsistence food needs, as well as working in the rice fields. Farming is the main […]