The GDP Leadership
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Board Development Highlights
Newest Board Member - The GDP/Gambia Board.
Mrs. Dalla Drammeh; Texas, USA.
Mrs. Dalla Drammeh is from Bakau, Gambia. She obtained an LLB from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria and an LLM from American University College of Law in Wahington DC.
Mrs. Drammeh has practiced Law with several firms in the US and she currently volunteers in Immigration Law for the indigent in Houston, Texas.
Mrs. Drammeh speaks English, Wollof, and Hausa fluently.
She is married and lives with her husband and two children in Texas.
We are proud and honored to have Mrs. Drammeh among our Boards of The GDP and of The GDPGambia.
National Organization Highlights
Board Member - The GDP/Gambia Board.
Mr. Jawru Krubally; Gambia.
Mr. Jawru Krubally is a veteran Trades Unionist advocate in Gambia for over twenty years representing workers at the Industrial Tribunal before he became a mediator at the Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR, a collaborative effort of the government of Gambia and UNDP. He is currently a Senior Mediator with ADR in his tenth year, and on an annually renewable contract basis.
Mr. Krubally hails from Koba Kunda in Gambia and has received training at The Afro-Asian Institute for Labor Studies in Histadrut, Israel, at the ILO in Turin, Italy, and in other institutions in Togo and Ghana, He has had experience living in Liberia in his formative years.
Mr. Krubally speaks Mandinka, Wollof, and Sarahulay fluently and he understands Fula well.
We are proud and honored to have Mr. Krubally among our Boards of The GDP and of The GDPGambia.
The GDPGambia
The GDPGambia Leadership Team
As a pioneer organization with a wholesome Mission, The GDPGambia is fortunate to attract the cream of committed and energetic Gambian professionals to our Leadership Team.
They are parents themselves, who live and work in Gambia and all around the world. Some from among our youthful population.
Wont you join with us to change lives!
Signature CAMPUS
True to our Mission, we are best at home among rural communities who do not have reasonable access to eye health care or a quality world class education and training for their children.
Our self-sufficient Signature Campus contains all our Mission Project facilities and is home to our:
Honorary Fellow Society
InPublico
FONDINGIA Community Service Associations
Sir DKJawara SEVINK
Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was the first President of Gambia and the country's first Veterinary Surgeon. He was the country's first Prime Minister and he helped to negotiate the Independence of Gambia from Great Britain to become the first President of the Republic of Gambia.
President Jawara lived among us as a champion of democracy who is revered the world over, and an elder Statesman.
We are proud to dedicate our Senator Edward Moore Kennedy Nyakoi Vision Institute in the honour of Late President Sir DK Jawara.
Sidia Jatta KASA
A renown linguist and educationist, Hon. Sidia Jatta is a member of the National Assembly representing his native Wulli Constituency and a senior member of the PanAfrican Parliament of the African Union.
Hon. Sidia Jatta is a pioneer in developing educational curricula in Gambia's major ethnic languages of Mandinka, Wollof, and Fula and an author of local grammar in those languages.
We are proud to dedicate our Kofi Annan Savanna Academy in his honor as the Sidia Jatta - Kofi Annan Savanna Academy.
MD-BOSUDI
Late Hon. Alh. Musa Darbo was a teacher before serving in Parliament representing his native Sandou Constituency. He served in the first cabinet of Independent Gambia as Minister of Education, then of Health, Labor, and Social welfare, and briefly as Speaker of Parliament.
Hon. Darbo was appointed in successive Republic governments as Gambia's Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Conakry, and Guinea Bissau, and later to Libya, Egypt, Malta, and Tunisia. An eminent Conflict Resolution Specialist,Hon. Darbo helped to resolve communal conflicts in his native Sandou and later in Liberia's early civil strife as Gambia/ECOWAS envoy to the President of Liberia.
We are proud to dedicate our Barack Obama Sustainable Development Institute in his honour as the Musa Darbo - Barack Obama SUDI.
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