Gambian Scholarship Program

In the Gambia, west Africa, the government is able to provide free education for all elementary school students. Junior high and high school students can only go to school if they can afford it. But school in the Gambia is very inexpensive by Western standards. For only $70 for a whole school year, a student can go to "junior secondary school" or "senior secondary school" (junior high school or high school). Please help sponsor a student! You can make a donation of any amount, or, if you would like to sponsor a student for a year, we will pair you up with a specific student and you will receive their name and contact information.

Click here to make a safe and secure donation to the Gambian Scholarship Program by PayPal:

Multiple options for donating are available. If you would prefer to make a donation by check or by another method, please call the New Hope Academy Office at 301-459-7311 to make arrangements.

It's difficult to capture the pride that the people of this village have in this undertaking. The adults are overjoyed that their children can receive an education that few, if any, of them could. They also stressed that by connecting with New Hope Academy families, their world would expand and they could experience brothers and sisters as yet unknown to them. [Village of Daru]

Our alums do service project in the Gambia

Check out the "Side by Side in the Gambia" slide show! It's about a service project carried out by alumni of our school who travelled to the Gambia in summer 2007. Several organizations contributed, including Service for Peace (SFP), a humanitarian service organization with branches all over the world including the U.S. and the Gambia; the United Youth Association (UYA) in the Gambia; the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which provided a character education program; and the Washington AIDS International Team (WAIT), which has created a skit intended to raise awareness about AIDS (some of our alums are members).

You can download the 32MB Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (which can be watched if you have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, or to download free software that can play it, go to www.OpenOffice.org). Or you can watch the slide show right in the browser - see below. The photos are large so the slide show may take awhile to load; sometimes you might have to start over.

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