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Hear from supporters, staff and people working with ActionAid Gambia, working to end poverty.

Countryside women in the food crisis
The Activistas are collecting stories from around the Gambia to understand how the food crisis is affecting people. Read the story of the women here:Underprivileged countryside women simply do not...

by:
Activista The Gambia
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 - 4:43pm

Activista the Gambia

Africa

Sahel drought

West Africa food crisis

Emergencies & Conflict

Gambia

HungerFREE
Unequal power relations in the midst of food crisis
Women play a bigger role in our modern society taking up responsibilities than men do and immensely contributing towards the political and socio-economic development of any country, and not only in...

by:
Awa Njie
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 - 12:25am

Activista the Gambia

Africa

blogger swarm

Climate Change

Sahel drought

West Africa food crisis

Gambia

Food rights

HungerFREE

Womens Rights
The hunger season has already started in The Gambia
The West Africa Food Crisis is growing every day and the international community appears to be reluctant to intervene while it is still possible to avert the worst of the crisis. Bo Banks has been...

by:
Bo Banks
Thursday, 29 March 2012 - 10:43am

Sahel drought

West Africa food crisis

Emergencies & Conflict

Food rights

HungerFREE
The Girl Child
As we commemorate International Women's Day, young women talk to ActionAid about issues that affect their lives and circumstances.
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Thursday, 8 March 2012 - 11:24am
Activista Blogger swarm

Africa

International Women’s Day

Education

Gambia

Womens Rights
Be the change you want to see.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. By Leo Tolstoy In the Gambia most youths don’t value farming because they think it is an occupation for the poor...

by:
Awa Njie
Sunday, 24 July 2011 - 1:41pm

Africa

blogger swarm

Kanifing

Gambia

Food rights

HungerFREE
Activista The Gambia Dreaming High
Not so long ago, I was lucky enough to take part in the future strategy meeting of Activista the Gambia. Sounds boring? Not quite! With a group of thirty Activistas from all regions of the...

by:
Awa Njie
Monday, 6 February 2012 - 4:35pm

activista

Africa

blogger swarm

Kanifing

Education

Gambia

Governance

HungerFREE

Womens Rights
How ActionAid changed my life
I am Muhammed Krubally, a visually impaired student pursuing a four years law degree programme at the University of The Gambia. During my school days at the primary, junior, secondary levels, and the...
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 - 4:46pm
Africa

Disability

Education

Gambia
Farming for HungerFREE Gambia (journey to end hunger)
After months of positive anticipation and planning, the journey to end hunger was really a journey that was worth exploring. I was always excited to travel to the rural Gambia and experience life...

by:
Awa Njie
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 - 1:16pm

Africa

blogger swarm

Sahel drought

Education

Gambia

Food rights

HungerFREE

Womens Rights
Election fever in Liberia - what are the women saying?
Everywhere I look there are rallies, marches, posters, and people singing and dancing in T-shirts emblazoned with campaign slogans. The country heads to the polls to elect a President on 11th...

by:
Airlie Taylor
Friday, 7 October 2011 - 9:22am

access to justice

Africa

conflict

women's rights

Emergencies & Conflict

Liberia

Womens Rights
Overcoming global hunger and poverty - smallholder women farmers are the key players
Extreme poverty, hunger and starvation is concentrated on marginalised rural areas in Gambia. Most rural people earn their income as small holder farmers.Smallholder women farmers in Gambia have...

by:
Awa Njie
Sunday, 18 September 2011 - 7:42pm

blogger swarm

Climate Change

Sahel drought

Food rights

HungerFREE

Womens Rights
Promoting Rights in Schools
Promoting Rights in Schools (PRS) is a collaborative initiative between ActionAid and the Right to Education Project which aims to secure free, compulsory, quality public education for all. The...
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 - 10:39am
Education

Governance
19 villages talk to us about their rights
In the village of Nanaba in the Central River Region of The Gambia, the villagers were seated under a big mango tree. They were all men. In an unusually hot climate in this part of the country, the...
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Tuesday, 21 June 2011 - 1:53pm
Sahel drought

Education

Food rights

Governance

Womens Rights
Who made 1bn people hungry?
Activista The Gambia have been on the airwaves of the private radio station Paradise FM with a series of phone in programmes. The latest was a panel discussion on Who Made a Billion People Hungry...
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Tuesday, 21 June 2011 - 1:23pm
activista

Africa

Sahel drought

Gambia

Food rights

HungerFREE

Womens Rights
Rural Women's Day and World Food Day Celebrations
Rural Women’s Day and World Food Days, organised with the FAO national office, Ministry of Agriculture were commemorated on the 15th and 16th October 2010 and attracted over 300 women, development...
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Wednesday, 30 March 2011 - 1:52pm
Africa

Gambia

Food rights

HungerFREE

Womens Rights
Directors come together to make change
The music of the Nyakoi Cultural Troupe filled the air as I neared the Jaama Hall where the Board of Directors of ActionAid International the Gambia were attending the launch of the third country...
by:
Jainaba Nyang
Wednesday, 30 March 2011 - 1:39pm
Africa

Gambia

Governance