Dawda Stichting Gambia
Gennep, Netherlands
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Dawda Stichting Gambia is a charity based in Gennep, Netherlands working on community development, environment & climate, water & sanitation +4 more.
Dawda Stichting Gambia is a Dutch foundation, based in Gennep and registered with an ANBI public-benefit status, that works to improve living conditions in the village of Somita in The Gambia. Its focus covers water supply, environment, education, housing and economic development, with particular attention to women, youth and children. Its projects include clean cookstoves and pellet production, orchard and garden restoration, micro-credit and cash grants, and a community centre and market hall. The foundation is run by volunteers and works with a local Village Development Committee.
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Mimi Moto cookstove project
Environment & Climate · Gambia
Distributes clean cookstoves to residents of Somita, with micro-credit repayment, and produces biomass pellets as fuel to reduce wood cutting and indoor smoke.
Pellet press project
Environment & Climate · Gambia
Operates electric and motorless pellet presses in Somita that turn groundnut shells and other biomass into cooking fuel.
GALDEP orchard
Poverty & Hunger · Gambia
Restores and expands a former GALDEP garden in Somita into a citrus orchard, with water supply and fencing.
Youth Economic Empowerment Project (YEEP)
Employment & Skills · Gambia
Supports economic opportunities for young people in Somita, including a processing house and youth cash projects.
Cash projects
Poverty & Hunger · Gambia
Provides flexible unconditional cash grants to village committees, women's groups and youth groups in Somita and Tumani Tenda.
Bee project
Environment & Climate · Gambia
Establishes a beekeeping farm with water supply and fencing in the women's garden in Somita.
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O.B. Engineering & Construction Company, MRC-Holland Foundation, Wilde Ganzen, Dirkzwager Advocaten en Notarissen, Rotaryclub Cuijk-Maaskant, GAM Solar Energy & Engineering Co. Ltd., Verenigde Stichtingen Gambia, Albert Heijn Gennep, Books4Life, Gebr. van den Boschstichting, Buzzwomen, Tumani Tenda Development Fund
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