Seriously in Need of Help

Modou Lamin Touray, a 6 year-old boy and a resident of Fajikunda, is in urgent need of assistance to go for overseas treatment.

According to a medical report issued by The Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, the youngster was presented at the paediatric outpatient department with a one year history of frequent falls, unsteady gait or walking, vomiting, headache, increasing head size, poor vision and inability to control his neck.

The report added: “However there were no reported seizures in the past. And he was born at term and cried well at birth”.

The report, dated 24 June 2013, also indicated the boy’s inability to have neck control and sustained ankle clonuses bilaterally.

NATO: Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya

At Least 72 Dead in Air Attacks on Unclear Targets

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  The funeral in Majer for 34 victims of a NATO air strike on two rural compounds on August 8, 2011.

  © 2011 Sidney Kwiram/Human Rights Watch

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Victim of April 2000 killings appeals for assistance

On April 10-11, 2000, the Gambia Student Union (Gamsu) staged a countrywide protest demanding for justice to be done for a fallen colleague, who was reported to have died as a result of maltreatment by Gambian security officials.

A number of people were killed and others injured in the process, including students.

Eleven years on, Abdou Karim Jammeh, who was a student at the time attending the 9^th grade, suffered a gun shot injury while on his way to sat to an examination at his school.

On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Jammeh walked into the office of The Voice Newspaper to get his appeal for medical support disseminated widely. “I am appealing for support from the Government, Non-Governmental Organisations and individuals for an overseas treatment,” he said.

Voluntary Service Overseas adopts new strategy

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) recently unveiled a new strategy that it has adopted to represent their values and what the VSO stand for at the Paradise Suites Hotel, Kololi.

At a two-day Sensitization workshop, VSO said the launching of the new strategy, “People First” and the “Logo” came after 12 months of consultation with partners, beneficiaries, staff and volunteers.

The launching focuses on four issues: “Why is VSO Changing, the new VSO Strategy, How will we achieve our ambitions and what this means at the country office level”.

The VSO’s vision is a world without poverty and its mission is to bring people together to fight poverty. Since it believes that such poverty is unacceptable, with the new strategy (People First), they are passionate about putting the right people in the right place at the right time to bring about lasting change.

Karmic Angels boost communities in West Coast Region

Alan and Stephanie Tuner

Karmic Angels, an international charitable organisation headed by British couples, Alan and Stephanie Tuner has build three Nursery schools for the communities of Brikama Madina, Brikama Daruhiru and Faraba Bantang in the West Coast Region.

The Gambia and UK-based philanthropic organisation also donates sporting material to Faraba Bantang Football Academy, over the weekend. The donated sporting gears include a set of football jerseys, balls among others items.

Karmic Angels recently visited the three schools they’ve built in order to ascertain state of affairs, and as well held a brief meeting with the school authorities and told The Voice that they were impressed with what they saw.

Kumla Gruppën Relishing Success

 

Gun Karlsson, Founder and Head of the Kumla Gruppen, Sweden

The head of the Kumla Gruppën, Gun Karlsson has expressed her delight of the success registered by many of the students who have benefited or are still benefiting from a scholarship programme that was initiated more than 45 years ago.

The Kumla Gruppën, a Sweden-base humanitarian organisation under The Gambia Swedish Society provides scholarships to students mainly at Saint Michael’s Basic Cycle School from primary to tertiary education. Most of the beneficiaries are less privilege students whose parents could not afford to provide for their educational expenses.