West Yorkshire based charity
Children of the Gambia
Registered Charity No's: UK 1077294 - Gambia 601/2002
EVEREST CLIMB
Heather Timm is raising funds for our charity by attempting to climb to Everest Base Camp at a height of 5545m; she will be doing her climb over the Christmas period and will be trekking for 14 days. Thank you Heather, we wish you luck and please stay safe.
COTG charity was founded in 1998 and our aim is to work with children, their families and communities to build/renovate schools and provide the children of Gambia with free education and an improved quality of life.
Kusalang
Kusalang Nursery School is situated in the bush, a 10 hour drive from our base in Serrekunda. This area is a farming community and the region is very dry and arid, money is very scarce. This school supplies
If you would like to sponsor Heather please click on button below
Sponsor a teacher and help these children go to school.
CLICK ON PICTURE ABOVE
STARFISH STORY
We find that many people cannot understand the vast and complex problems that face most of the population of Africa, so they turn their backs and say, "What's the point, my donation won't make any difference when there is that amount of suffering". We then tell them the following story.
Two friends were walking along a beach after a huge storm. As they walk along, they noticed thousands and thousands of Starfish washed up on the sand and rocks by the fierce waves. All were dying because they could not get back into the water. One person picks up a Starfish and throws it back into the sea.
First friend asks: “What did you do that for? It won't make any difference"
Second friend replies: "It will to that one!"
