The GDP Leadership
Lighthouse News
Board Development Highlights
Our Newest Member
The GDP Board
Mr. Moumine Yaro, Atlanta, GA USA.
Mr. Yaro is a Logistics Coordinator for a large Healthcare organization. Former member of the Junior Chamber International of Cote D'Ivoire and Co-Founder of the non-profit The Consolation to provide aid and comfort to hospital patients in Ivory Coast, Mr. Yaro is also a recent-past board member of his local Habitat for Humanity chapter in Georgia. He is currently co-Founder of the Global SHARE Solutions non-profit to coordinate medical donations to Health Ministries of developing nations around the world.
Mr. Yaro lives and works in Georgia, USA, with his wife and children. We are proud and honored to have him among the Board of The GDP.
National Organization Highlights
Mr. Lamin Fadera, Gambia.
Board Member - The GDPGambia.
Mr. Fadera has a Diploma in Business Management and Administration. He is currently pursuing an ACCA at the Management Development Institute and works as an Accounting Assistant at the Department of Finance in Gambia.
Mr. Fadera is an active member of his native Nema Youth Development Association and he serves on the Education and Finance Committees of the Association.
Mr. Fadera has a great deal of experience in ommunity development volunteer efforts. He is single with no children.
We are proud and honored to have him among us in our Boards.
The GDPGambia
The GDP 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 is 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 lives 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 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.
Partners In Our Journeys
You desire value-added Partnership, We Seek Ad-valorem Partners.
Won't you partner with us!!
GSP - Guest Surgeon Program
CALLING ALL OPHTHALMOLOGISTS
Would you like to spend some weeks or months on the beach in the smiling coast of Africa?
GLP - Guest Lecturer Program
Wouldn't you rather be walking barefoot on sand crystals?
