Friends of the Gambia

Public benefits

1. To promote the preservation of health of the people of The Gambia West Africa. The direct benefits that flow from this purpose are reduction of illness and mortality rates especially among children. These benefits can be evidenced through local government figures and figures obtained from local community clinics. This purpose may lead to the

following harm, illness among volunteers who go to Gambia to fulfil this purpose. This harm is outweighed by the benefits and minimised by giving each volunteer appropriate health advise and each volunteer getting medical advise and medication from their own general practitioner. The charity's beneficiaries are the people of The Gambia West Africa. 2. To advance education among children in The Gambia West Africa. The direct benefit of this purpose is to the children of The Gambia who otherwise may not be able to attend school due to lack of funding from their own families. These benefits will be evidenced by end of year school reports and each child's progression through school. There is no foreseeable harm from this purpose. 3. To relieve poverty and hunger for the people of The Gambia West Africa. The direct benefit of this purpose is to the people of The Gambia West Africa who will benefit from donations given to them by the charity. These benefits can be evidenced through photographs taken of people receiving clothing or other charitable donation. This purpose may lead to illness among volunteers but outweighed by the benefits and minimised by appropriate medical advise and medication.

What your organisation does

Provide clean drinking water, child school sponsorship and distributing such items donated by members of the public such as clothing shoes school books reading books medical supplies and used spectacles.