 
Contact Address:
Lend
A Hand Society
Banjul area Head office
PO Box 2914, Serrekunda
Kanifing South
18 Radio Gambia Road
Kanifing Municipality, Ksmd
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 4390550 / 9826035 / 7387164
3990399 / 6869612
Email: lahsgm@gmail.com
lahs_gambia@hotmail.com
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Information:
The Lend A Hand Society (LAHS) is a Gambian registered
youth NGO founded on April 18, 1995 in Banjul. The grassroots
organisation's main aims are to develop student sponsorship
programmes to support needy students, to encourage young
people to develop more self esteem, a positive outlook
in life, good time-keeping, responsibility, capacity
building, self-reliance, tolerance and respect for themselves
and others around them.
Vision & Activities:
LAHS employs an integrated
view of development of youth within their membership.
It is their conviction that confidence in one's self
is an essential requirement for achieving aims in life.
The Lend A Hand Society creates the enabling environment
to support youth to develop self-confidence from their
own initiative.
The centre has a sponsorship
scheme for deprived students financed through fundraising
activities.
Their programs are tailored to
meet such an integrated approach of enhancing the capacity
of their group and in turn add their efforts towards
the development of the whole Gambian people.
HIV / Aids awareness and training workshops for schools
& colleges with UNAIDS.
Hope is YOU
The idea behind the Hope is YOU project is basically
for people to make donations of materials they no longer
need such as clothing, footwear, books and other items.
These are then distributed to impoverished students
or victims of natural disasters.
Lead the
establishment of a youth network named The Youth Collaboration
(YC).
Discussion on leadership qualities,
speaking in public, organising and other issues are
regularly held. Their educational programmes include
talking in the media, group discussions and forums as
well as tutorials for students who require them at their
building during the school year as well as during the
summer holidays. LAHS also arranges various school competitions
among students in all grades of the education system.
The Lend A Hand Society's vision is for nationwide
coverage of their projects, and so far they have over
30 regional branches in various secondary schools in
the Western Region, Upper River Region, Central River
Region and the Greater Banjul area. They have also initiated
a scheme to introduce their programmes to primary and
lower basic schools on the West Coast Region of the
Kombo Saint Mary District.
Partners & Linkages in Gambia:
Association
of Youths Against Malaria (TAYAM)
BAFROW
Youth Advocacy
Bakau Youth Association for Childrens
Welfare (BAYCAW)
Kanifing East Youth Development
Society (KEYDS)
Ministry of Education
Red
Cross Society Youth Wing
Rotary
Club of Banjul
UNAIDS
UNDP
UNICEF
Youth Association for Advancement (YAA)
Partners Overseas:
Gambian Association in Italy
Pope John Paul II Sahel Foundation
Branches:
1 Kairaba Avenue |
