Recently, Nelson Aigbe, (the Founder/Director of Grace Foundation, Gambia) got in contact with me. He had seen news of my research in Sierra Leone and he reached out to share the important work he is doing feeding and educating street kids. I wanted to do a post for Grace Foundation to support their incredible work, spread the work and give readers the opportunity to donate and help Grace Foundation continue their work. In a time when many of us are house-bound and the world seems to have shrunk, it is even more important to keep our eyes and hearts open to needs of others. This post is written by Nelson and outlines what Grace Foundation is and how they help local street kids. Please give generously. Thanks, NG.
Grace Foundation Gambia
Grace Foundation is a registered nonprofit organization in the Gambia that provides education and food for 400 street kids.. Many Gambian children turn up at schools daily on hungry stomach and return home hungry.
Their families are living in extreme poverty and do not have enough income to provide the barest minimum of food.
As a result of the poverty faced daily by these children, many are withdrawn from schools and are forced to engage in street trading in order to get food for their families at home, thus exposing these mainly children girl to sex abuse, child trafficking and child labour.
Grace Foundation provides free school meals and education to 400 kids, most of them are girl s as a way to help stop sex abuse, encourage school attendance and stop hunger at schools.
A message from the Founder/Director
I write to you on behalf of Grace Foundation Gambia.
Grace Foundation provides free school meals and education to mainly girl street children sent to trade in the streets in order to help feed at home thus exposing these mainly girl street children to sex abuse, child trafficking and child labour.
Since the closure of schools these children can no longer assess the free school meals programme we provide daily, and most of these children are back in the streets, trading and hawking in order to be fed at home.
This street trading has once again exposed these mainly girl children to sex abuse, child trafficking and labour.
I pray for your attention in helping me with the continuation of the feeding and probably education of these very vulnerable poor Children.
My organization is a small one that depends on the magnanimous donations of good people like you to help keep these children safe from the streets.
Please feel free to ask any questions that may be useful to you.
Kind regards,
Nelson Aigbe – Founder/Director, Grace Foundation, The Gambia
You can make a difference
Your contributions can help educate a child because your
$15 will buy stationery for a child
$25 will provide school bag for a child
$50 will provide Uniforms
$100 will provide lunch for 2000 pupils
$150 will provide seedlings for school gardens
$700 will buy 2000 acres of land
Support Grace Foundation
To support kindly send donations to: Trust Bank Limited (Gambia)
Account Name: Grace Foundation (GF) Account Number: 110-243272-01
Swift Code: TBLTGMGM
For further inquiries please contact: gracefoundation.gm@gmail.com
Telephone: (00220) 994 88 46 998 18 60
LinkedIn: Grace Foundation GF Gambia
Facebook: https://fb.me/GraceFoundation1968
Twitter: @GraceFoundatio7
All images courtesy of Grace Foundation Gambia.