 
Contact Address:
BAFROW
BAFROW Banjul HQ
214 Tafsir Demba Mbye St.
Tobacco Road Estate
Banjul
capital
PO Box 2854 Serrekunda
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 4223270 / 4225270 / 4223471
Fax:
4223266
Email: bafrow@gamtel.gm
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Information:
The Gambia Foundation for Research on Women's Health,
Productivity and the Environment (BAFROW) was
established in Banjul in July 1991 as a registered NGO
and became a charitable trust in 1992. The civil society
organisation's main areas of focus is on women's social
empowerment, health,
environmental
issues and economic welfare.
 BAFROW
aims to help the central government's development programs
via its economic and social empowerment schemes with
the aim of improving the welfare of people living in
certain communities. These programs are executed at
the local, regional and countrywide levels which includes
the Upper River Region, Central River Region, the Greater
Banjul area, Western River Region and the Kombos.
Funding:
The organisation is funded by monies created by its
founders and revenues generated through consultation
research and related services. Its community schemes
are financed by donations
and grants made within The Gambia and from international
donors.
Vision:
BAFROW's future vision is a wider and more inclusive
view of the individual's capacity, with a large focus
on enhanced knowledge, skills
building and information. Their ultimate goal is to
ensure Gambian people have social, economic and political
empowerment, to allow citizens, especially women,
to make better informed decisions on issues that have
an effect on their lives. And finally, to take part
in and benefit from national and local community development
programs and to demand their rights and improve their
quality of life and health.
Detailed Objectives:
• Provide & support healthcare services such as
reproductive
& sexual health, child & maternal health &
prevention of HIV/Aids & other STDs.
• Advocate & support activities
on women & environmental management & protection.
• Create action research programs and mobilize
campaigns against detrimental cultural practices such
as female
genital mutilation (FGM) in Gambia, promote alternative
rights of passage and encourage positive traditional
practices.
• Spread awareness about political,
social, economic and environmental issues and allow
groups to give meaning of such issues and express means
for actions dealing with them.
• Push for women's economic empowerment through village
savings schemes, micro-financing
and capacity building in enterprise management and planning.
• Reinforce institutional and community capacity,
civic empowerment, community involvement in socio-economic
development at all stages as beneficiaries and partners.
• Produce empirical data and gender analysis about females
and issues related to their capacity based on pilot
projects, case studies and research.
• Advance
women's and girls education through advocating for the
keeping of girls at all grades within the schooling
system and basic literacy tuition for women who have
been by-passed or neglected by the education establishment.
• Encourage a high rate of networking between community
groups in the rural and urban areas.
• Support and strengthen Youth Advocacy Groups of BAFROW
for the prevention of HIV/AIDS
in Gambia.
Structure:
BAFROW is lead by a director who is helped by a deputy
and various program coordinators for the following:
• Action research, M&E, documentation and information
dissemination.
• Economic & social empowerment
of communities & women.
• Environment and
gender.
• Mobile clinics.
• Program
sustainability.
• Well Woman and Family Clinics
(WWFHC).
• Youth
Empowerment and reproductive health rights.
Branches:
Serrekunda Well Woman and Family Clinic
Mosque Road
Kanifing Municipality, Ksmd
Tel no: +220 373 7411
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