Charity Volunteer Work in Africa and The Gambia

Charity Volunteering Work in Africa and The Gambia

​Girls in The Gambia face adverse challenges of child marriage, child labour, trafficking, FGM, and exploitation and are often deprived of their basic needs. With lives revolving around decisions made by others, the only option left for them is to abide by these decisions without a say in their own life stories. This makes it impossible to create their own identity, to think as an individual, and to create a life of their own. 

Charity Volunteering with girls' education charities

Every grave circumstance that hesitates to intrinsically progress requires an external push to feel empowered. How can you be this source of encouragement?
When you choose to volunteer for girls in The Gambia, you not only feel a sense of accomplishment but have also managed to turn around life for the better! With the help of your mentorship, girls in The Gambia could benefit from it on a personal note as well as in their careers.

Anyone can make a decision to volunteer. It is one of the most rewarding and satisfying attributes of life. You get to meet new people, absorb quality skills, and gain valuable experience along the way. The outcome of your support creates a huge impact on your community and societal goals.

Volunteering Supports Girl Child Education & Empowerment?

Volunteering can be greatly gratifying. Once you’re sure of how and where you want to spend your time, it becomes easier to give it your all. Volunteering can advance your career to a great extent. It teaches you several valuable skills and also enriches your morals and values. One of the essential areas to contribute your time could include girl child education and empowerment. 

• Children greatly benefit from your communication with them. It helps them improve their behaviour and interpersonal skills. They further learn how to communicate and interact with individuals of other nationalities and cultures, thus making them more hospitable and good-natured.

• You would notice lower drop-out rates from school. When children find something unusual and different, this naturally creates curiosity in them. Your participation adds this element to their lives. With consistency in variety, children are easily motivated to go to school and apply the learnings practically in their lives too.

• Connecting with children also means connecting with their vulnerabilities, talents, flaws, and ideologies. As a volunteer, you could help shape these by connecting with their emotions. Children then tend to develop better positive emotions in the process.

 

• Once they go through emotional development, they tend to have higher self-esteem and refrain from placing their worth in hands of others.

 

• Children can aim higher and have bigger goals and aspirations, extending the boundaries that society sets for them. They can visualize a stronger future and carve a strong voice.

 

• These emotional developments and communication abilities help them develop stronger relationships with family, friends, classmates, and society at large.

 

• They also take care of themselves, are aware of their bodies, and find ways to keep them healthy and sustain a good lifestyle.

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• Most children dread going to school because of its monotonous routine. When you help volunteer a child, they tend to look forward to the routine by altering their mindset and ways of looking at their school life. They create a positive outlook and engage with their studies in hope of finding something new to learn every day.

Charity Volunteering and mentoring can put a child in the position to gradually “choose”, to be conscious of her rights, and have the strength to speak up and fight for herself.

Here’s how you can make a difference!

SaGG Foundation is one such medium to empower young girls with a voice of their own through education. Being a female-educated individual is quite a rare sight in The Gambia and despite the adverse problems faced, we strive to bridge this gap and sponsor girl child education.
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How can you make a difference?
There are numerous ways of joining the SaGG Foundation. Opportunities here are unlimited and flexible. All you need to do is get in touch with us. Use this opportunity to volunteer and help young girls receive their basic right to education. You can help out by:

• Teaching with us to improve the techniques of learning experiences for girls in The Gambia
• Become a fundraiser and support young girls embarking on their educational journey
• Be a part of our Digital Team to support the fight for social equality from the comfort of your home.

We want our society to prosper by shaping young Gambian girls into courageous, bold and independent leaders. To achieve this, we actively participate in providing them with education, mentoring services, programmes, workshops and seminars. It is imperative for our girls to become wholesome individuals using their utmost potential both, inside and outside the classroom. Revolutionizing the generational and traditional norms, we want to give every girl her own story!

Are you willing to help us bridge the gap? Come, let’s empower our girls together!

How to decide for charity volunteering

You might have multiple volunteering roles to choose from. When you do volunteer work at a non-profit organization, it is essential to:

• Check whenever you’re needed
• Make quality time
• Understand your role and responsibilities
• Increase your social skills and communication
• Stay healthy mentally, physically, and emotionally
• Show up when you promise your availability
• Help your fellow volunteers to achieve the community goals and mission
• Make a difference

At the SaGG Foundation, your charity and volunteering deeds can help educate young girls in The Gambia to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. Every generous contribution counts!
Do you wish to know the ways in which you can support us? Check out ways in which you can support:

1. Girl Child Sponsorship

You could help with generous contributions of as little as £10 a month for a girl’s educational needs to secure her future. Browse through the list of deserving candidates, select one or more, and get in touch. As a regular sponsor, you will constantly get updates on your student’s progress. The best part of your sponsorship is that 100% of your generous contributions would be utilized for the said contribution. There would be no additional cut or distribution to another. The girl that you sponsor receives the entire sponsorship to secure her career.
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Through sponsorship, you will be able to:

• Give love and hope
• Directly communicate with the girl and her family
• Build a strong rapport with the girl
• Directly make sponsorship payments to the school

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2. Charity Donations

Some girls might have access to go to school but due to poverty, many of them lack basic educational supplies. We at SaGG aim to provide the necessary tools and amenities needed for their education with the help of your donations.
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By supporting our girl child education projects, you can GIVE A LITTLE. MAKE A GREAT IMPACT! Due to the pandemic, there was a loss of 30 sponsors in 2022. By donating £2, $2, €2, or D100 monthly direct debit, you will be able to continue our endeavour in striving to educate our girls.

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3. Charity Champion and Ambassdor

When you have a voice, use it! This is exactly how our Charity Champions support our missions in their respective countries and cities. With a strong passion to advocate for girls' education, they help to connect girls with sponsors and contribute in many ways. Our Charity Champions are self-driven to make a high and positive impact in laying the foundation to change girls’ lives through the gift of education. They recruit sponsors, support fundraising initiatives, and make contributions in their own unique way. You too can become a champion and make a difference today!

As a Charity Champion, you will be able to:

• Make a Difference by giving our girls freedom, independence, and control·      
• Feel valued as part of the  SaGG Foundation  family
• Build relationships and networks across the world
• Help the less fortunate by directly contributing towards a better future for our girls, their families, their communities, their country, and the world. 
• Advocate by hosting fundraising events, raising awareness, and discussing issues, online, and through social media platforms to reach enthusiastic, self-motivated, and passionate like-minded people. 

BECOME A CHAMPION

4. Corporate Charity Partnership

Through collaborated partnerships, you could discover new heights for businesses by working towards the betterment of society. By collaborating with us, you play a part in creating a positive impact in providing educational opportunities to deprived and underprivileged girls in The Gambia.

Partnership opportunities such as supporting events, co-creating marketing, and brand campaigns, and opportunities to engage staff, improve customer trust, and reach new audiences are a few ways of binding our mission and efforts together. ​​
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Through these partnerships, what we bring to the table is motivation, reliability, and quality experience. We work with our Corporate Charity Partners to find the balance for achieving the ​best results together. We maintain the highest level of transparency to ensure trust from all our partners. SaGG is open to any initiatives and will support our partners in shaping those ideas ​into ​real actions. On the business front, you would benefit from achieving your CSR goals, maintaining a positive brand image, and driving employee engagement.

LET’S COLLABORATE

Your volunteering will keep our girls smiling

​Volunteering can be the experience of a lifetime. You can help manifest a promising future for another. Start today, start NOW!

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