Project Aid The Gambia
off Kotu Road
Manjai Kunda, Serekunda
Gambia
Kontaktperson: Matthias Ketteler
info@buschklinik.de
https://buschklinik.de/en/
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Project Aid The Gambia was founded in 1985 as Project Aid The Thirld World and was renamed in 2015 to Project Aid The Gambia. Project Aid The Gambia is state registered in The Gambia as International NGO A57. Project Aid The Gambia is funded by its partner organization Projekthilfe Gambia e.V., a state registered and state-approved charity NGO based in Hattingen, Germany.
Projects:
• Jahaly Health Centre (“Buschklinik”): Jahaly Health Centre, located in the Central River Region CRR, serves up to 46,000 patients per year – outpatients as well as inpatients – and is considered one of the country’s best rural health facilities. In 2009 it has been recognized by the Gambian government as a “model clinic”. Jahaly Health Centre is equipped with three consultation rooms, two wards, a laboratory, a pharmacy, an ambulance car and a maternity ward.
• Jahaly/Madina Kindergarten with nursery school: In 2004 Project Aid The Gambia opened the Jahaly/Madina kindergarten with nursery school for 240 children. The kindergarten is located right next to the Jahaly Health Centre. The cost for construction and operation of the first three years were financed through a charity fundraising program of RTL German Television. The requests of parents to provide more seats in kindergarten and nursery school has since increased steadily. In 2014 afternoon classes were introduced. This made it possible to now care for up to 480 children.
• Gardening projects: Project Aid The Gambia supports four gardening projects in the villages of Jahaly and its sister village Madina through fencing and building wells. About 1,000 women cultivate their own beds with a total size of more than 100,000 m².On their plots the women grow green tomatoes, onions, pepper, okra, garden-eggs, salads, cabbage, carrots, sweet potatoes and many more vegetables.
• Eco-friendly smoke-free ovens: In 2010 Project Aid started to develop eco-friendly ovens, which are meant to replace the traditional open fires people use to cook with in the villages. The ovens save a lot of fire wood and make cooking more comfortable as the smoke does not longer cause diseases of eyes or irritations of the respiratory path. They also decrease the risk of burn injuries among children.
• Moringa tree plantation: Since 2013 a Moringa tree plantation with 10,000 trees is being grown on a site behind Jahaly Health Centre and kindergarten. Moringa Oleifera is the most nutritious plant in the world. The production and sale of "The Gambia Moringa" products (currently oil and soap) in Europe is creating jobs in Jahaly and is intended to put the projects on a sustainable financial basis in the long term. All proceeds from the sale flow directly back into the projects.
• Overseas treatment for severely ill Gambian children: Project Aid The Gambia–in cooperation with the German charity “Friedensdorf (Peace Village) International” is organizing overseas treatment in Germany - which often means life-saving surgeries - for severely sick and injured Gambian children, who can not be treated in The Gambia. The Children travel to and stay in Germany without their parents. Project Aid advices and supports the parents in The Gambia by preparing their children’s trip, organizes passports and visa and also flight tickets. Children with e.g. congenital malformations, severe burns or chronic inflammation are treated mostly free of charge in hospitals throughout Germany. As by the end of 2019 70 Gambian children were successfully treated in Germany.
• Cooperation with the Government of The Gambia: Project Aid The Gambia regularly receives aid containers with medical equipment shipped to The Gambia by the German partner organization, to support improving the Gambian governmental health care system, and advises the Gambian government (Ministry of Health – MOH) in issues of rural health care.
• Health Center Buniadu: Since 2017 Project Aid The Gambia has also been operating the small Health Centre in the village of Buniadu, North Bank Region NBR. The Health Centre sees about 1,000 patients per month. In 2018 Project Aid constructed a European styled staff quarter for the two nurses in charge as well as for European volunteers. The Health Center Buniadu is organized in the same way as Jahaly Health Centre. It was founded and it is still funded by the German charity NGO Riverboat Doctors International e.V.
• Buniadu Kindergarten with nursery school: Since 2018 Project Aid The Gambia has also been operating the small kindergarten in the village of Buniadu, NBR, which is located next to the Health Center Buniadu. In 2018 Project Aid extended the kindergarten by one classroom. Now around 100 children come to the kindergarten every day. The kindergarten is funded by the German charity NGO Riverboat Doctors International e.V..
Matthias Ketteler is founding member and board member of Project Aid The Gambia as well as of Projekthilfe Gambia e.V.
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