Projects

Our beneficiaries receive livelihood skills at our multipurpose skills centre, which enables them to set up successful small-scale businesses to reduce household financial constraints and acquire the financial capacity and autonomy to improve their reproductive lives as well as contribute to improving that of their communities. Based on the needs of the communities, we have in the past trained women in tie and dye, tailoring, knitting and crocheting, soap making, peanut butter processing, baby cereal processing, bread making, hairdressing, and hair and skin hennaing. 

Gambian women’s traditional roles of exploring, exploiting and sustaining the environment both for domestic use and for the survival of the family place them as high stakeholders in the environment. This is why our beneficiaries receive information about the environment and climate change, with emphasis on how they can continue benefiting from the natural resources while protecting and nurturing the environment. 

Those with the capacity were encouraged to use part of the proceeds from their businesses to establish a revolving fund/ micro community reproductive health insurance scheme in their respective communities so that women in need are able to access low interest loans to address health care expenses and facilitate referral.