People who live in isolated Gambia will have access to transportation to health clinics.

Health Care and Water for 7,000 Gambians

Updates from the Field:

Updates from the Field (or Progress Reports) on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.com by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

Keep Up-to-Date

Subscribe to "Updates from the Field" by E-Mail
Subscribe to "Updates from the Field" by RSS Feed

Index of Updates from the Field

Gambia update September 2008

By Astrid Jenkinson - Fundraising officer, September 29, 2008 09:16 PM

Thanks to the support of those donating through GlobalGiving, Riders have recently been able to provide the village of Kankurang with an Uhuru. Kankurang is a small village in the Foni Bondali District, in the south west of the Gambia. Download the full report to find out more.
Attachments:

Riders Gambia update - September 2008

Riders Gambia Update, May 2008

By Rachel Harrington - Fundraising and Communications Manager, April 28, 2008 04:04 PM

World Malaria Day on April 25th was a stark reminder that this easily-preventable diseases continues to claim millions of lives every year.

By making sure that health workers can reach even the most remote communities on a regular basis, Riders for Health ensures that simple measures like bednets reach the people who need them most, helping to prevent the spread of malaria.

Download the feedback report below to find out more about how your donations are helping Riders to fight malaria in the Gambia.
Attachments:

Riders Gambia update, May 2008.pdf

Riders Gambia Update, January 2008

By Rachel Harrington - Fundraising and Communications Manager, January 15, 2008 05:37 PM

Riders for Health recently visited Jahangka and Mandinari, remote Gambian communities which are now benefiting from improved access to healthcare thanks to the generosity of GlobalGiving donors and the work of Riders for Health. Both these communities now have uhurus, multi-purpose vehicles that can act as community ambulances, water pumps and freight carriers in a region isolated by great distances and harsh terrain.

Read the full report below to hear more from the families you have helped in the Gambia.

At the end of 2007, we also re-launched our website, to bring you more up-to-date news about our work. Visit www.riders.org to find out more!

Links:

Check out our new-look website!

Attachments:

Riders Gambia Update, Jan 2008

Meet the team - Ali Ceesay

By Rachel Harrington - Fundraising and Communications Manager, August 14, 2007 05:40 PM

Riders for Health’s teams in Africa are made up entirely of nationals of the countries in which we work. In the Gambia, where GlobalGiving donors are helping to support the Uhuru programme, a key member of the team is deputy programme director, Ali Ceesay. Born into a very poor family in Bansang, in the east of the country, Ali was determined to do whatever he could both to overcome his own and his family's poverty and to make a contribution to the development of the country. Here, he talks about Riders for Health and the Uhuru, and why access to reliable transportation is so vital to the people of rural Gambia.
Attachments:

Interview with Ali Ceesay

Our project was featured in the GlobalGiving FilmFest

By Riders for Health - , August 03, 2007 10:08 AM

Our organization participated in the GlobalGiving FilmFest and we would like to share the video (check out link below) that was produced by filmmaker Ilya Zhitomirskiy for us. You can also read more about Ilya at the link provided below.

The video tells our story and that of the people who are impacted by our work. Take a look at some attached photos and our new photos in the project photo gallery.

Thank you for your generous support.

Links:

Attachments:

Turn $50 into $5,000

By Rachel Harrington - Fundraising and Communications Manager, July 25, 2007 05:24 PM

In June, Riders for Health participated in the first ever GlobalGiving FilmFest – a unique video competition designed to raise awareness of GlobalGiving projects and connect them with the support they need.

More than 12,420 people watched the videos - a major step in raising awareness for the issues these projects address – and we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for our project, ‘Health Care and Water for 7,000 Gambians’.

Now, thanks to the generosity of one of GlobalGiving’s most valued partners, eBay, three of the projects featured in the FlimFest are to benefit from additional funds to support their life-saving work. The idea is simple – GlobalGiving will log the donations received by the FilmFest projects until 11.59PM EST on Friday July 27, and the projects with the top three donation dollars will receive an additional $5,000, $3,000 or $2,000 from eBay. These funds are only available to the projects that submitted content for the GlobalGiving FilmFest. To find out more, visit: http://www.globalgiving.com/filmfest_results.html

In Africa a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria, even though a simple mosquito net could mean the difference between life and death. Please help Riders for Health to reach more people in the Gambia with the regular health care they need to beat ill-health and poverty, by making a donation today and spreading the word to friends and family! Remember, you only have until July 27, 11:59 PM EST to make your donation count!

To find out more about the project, and to make a donation, please visit: http://www.globalgiving.com/pr/1300/proj1245a.html

Thank you!

Links:

Freedom for a Gambian village

By Rachel Harrington - Fundraising and Communications Manager, April 23, 2007 03:22 PM

A remote Gambian community is now benefiting from improved access to healthcare, thanks to the work of Riders for Health and the generosity of our supporters.

Located in the remote Central River Division, the rural community of Jahangka is isolated by poor roads and harsh terrain. Villagers had previously used horse carts to take people to the nearest hospital, ten miles away, but now they are the proud owners of a new Uhuru community vehicle.

Download the full report below to find out more about the Jahangka Uhuru, including how it saved the life of baby Ibrahim Jagne and his mother, Matty.
Attachments:

Riders for Health report on the Jahangka Uhuru, April 2007

News Release

By Andrea and Barry Coleman - Riders for Health, March 20, 2006 02:30 PM

March 14, 2006—The Skoll Foundation today announced it is awarding $13 million to recipients of the 2006 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship and $3 million to Ashoka for a partnership to help build the field of social entrepreneurship. Riders for Health received $765,000. Below you can read the press release from Riders for Health.
Attachments:

Riders for Health press release