Tandayto Garden

Empower the Gambia is a charity organisation setup to benefit communities living in Gambia through education, training and empowerment.

The charity sponsors children so that they can attend schools in rural communities by providing uniforms and materials. Many of these children are orphans and without support they would not be able to attend school.

In addition, the charity helps to support local communities. Over the years this has included setting up libraries, solar power systems, water supplies and facilities in schools, as well as setting up sustainable projects such as Poultry Farms and Gardens to generate income and provide food.

When I visited in January of this year we met a community in Tandayto. A group of women in the village have been gifted land and would like to use it for farming. This would make a huge impact to the community by providing jobs for 100+ people and benefiting a community of over 2000 people.
However, in order to do so they need to build a large fence (100m x 100m) and install a bore hole to have a supply of water.
Empower has previously helped to setup gardens/farms in other villages and these have been a huge success.

The amount required to setup the garden is estimated to be £6000 and from fundraising efforts so far Empower has raised approximately £5000. It would be fantastic to be able to raise the final money required for this project, and my employer (M&G) will kindly match any fundraising up to £500.

Thank you for reading. Nick