Baddibu lies on the North bank of The River Gambia.
The population comprises mainly smallholder farming communities along the river and on the peripheries of the Baobolong marshes, cultivating rice, millet, sorghum, and maize as well as moderate fishing. Vegetable gardening is mainly done by the womenfolk, and a significant cottage industry in salt mining has become a necessary subsistence because of the intrusion of seawater into the aquifer underlying the Gambia River and its Baobolong tributary.
Our Baobolong Signature Campus communities include the Kiang West Nature Reserve as well as the Baobolong watershed communities covering a land area of approximately 1,618 sq. km.
Baobolong Chapter Signature Campus communities:
Kerewan-18,543; Saaba-2,852; Njaba Kunda-4,106; NoKunda-2,627; KintehKunda-2,355; Salikenni-4,878; Illiasa-1,870; Katchang-2,563; Jumansarr-1,257; Farafenni-54,949; Tendaba-550; Kwinella-2,364; Keneba-2,794.
The Baobolong Wetlands cover an area of nearly 22,000 hectares, comprising the estuary and several smaller tributaries, a riparian ecology which is home to a resplendent variety of flora and fauna. It serves as home to a vivid collection of bird species making it a favorite destination for Birders from all over the world.
This special ecosystem is under threat of Climate Change and its attendant impacts.
Diabugu Tenda is a small riverside community also on the north bank of the River Gambia and lying around the confluence of the River and its Sandugu Bolong tributary in the Upper River Region.
The activities of this riverside bedroom community are rice, maize, and groundnut cultivation, fishing, and herding. It serves as inland port for the larger and newer communities of Diabugu BaaTappa and Kuraw, as well as a link between the Gambia and Senegalese communities across the border and along the Sandugu Bolong tributary as the latter traverses bedroom communities in Central Senegal and meanders to join River Gambia.
Diabugu Riverside Chapter Signature Campus communities:
Diabugu Tenda-75; Diabugu BaaTappa-6,727; Kuraw-492; Numuyel-5,771; Diabugu BaaSillah-2,118; Gambisaara-15,967; Sabi-8,748; Koina-8,824.
DE3GA is the public advocacy project of The GDPGambia for a good governance and a democratic culture. It has a special board, some of whom are members of The GDPGambia board.
K. D. PaJan M. J. Mundave F.S. Denker L.M. Sambou
Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was the first President of Gambia and the country's first Prime Minister and Veterinary Surgeon.
He helped to negotiate the Independence of Gambia from Great Britain.
A champion of democracy, revered the world over for his exemplary Human Rights record and negotiation skills.
The Vision Institute includes:
The Eye Clinic
Anesthesia & Post-Op
Patient Family accommodation
Volunteer accommodations
Lab
Pharmacy
Classrooms
Resident Director's Office
The GDPMedG Office
Ophthalmology Club Office
FONDINGMUSO Office
The Resident Medical Director; RMD, oversees the management of the Vision Institute and helps to guide the Ophthalmology Club (OC).
Assisted by our OC students, FONDINGMUSO, and the HFS-Gambia team of SEVINK, the RMD coordinates the accommodations and activities for our GDPMedG Volunteer Guests.
GSP/GLP/GEM
Students of our Kofi Annan A&T who desire a career in the Ophthalmic Sciences and Art will have the opportunity for apprenticeship and training at the Vision Institute under the leadership of our RMD.
A two-year Certificate Program for Ophthalmology Tech is designed for student members of the OC so they will be able to either work in an Ophthalmologist's office or be adequately prepared for further education and training to become an Ophthalmologist.
The OC publishes the Lanceto Newsletter
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This is the main Pharmacy for our campus and surrounding communities with a generous supply for our Vision Institute patients as well as our school Infirmary.
FONDINGMUSO is the Community Service Association of FONDINGIA open to Girls and Women ages 16-55 engaged in service to the Blind and Visually-impaired.
The Newsletter of the SIKAATEC Ophthalmology Club
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 Pan African Parliament.
He is one of the pioneers in developing educational curricula in Gambia's major ethnic languages of Mandinka and Fula, and an author of local grammar in those languages. We are proud to dedicate our Kofi Annan Agricultural and Technical College in his honor as the Sidia Jatta - Kofi Annan A&T College.
Ophthalmology Club - OC
Robotics/Electronics Club - ROCC
Extension Club
Vet Club
Welding Club
Late Hon. Alh. Musa Darbo was a teacher before serving in Parliament to represent his native Sandu Constituency in Parliament. He served as Ministers of Education, Health, Labor, and Social welfare, and of Agriculture, and was briefly Speaker of Parliament.
Hon. Darbo served in successive Gambia governments as Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Conakry, and Guinea Bissau, and later to Libya, Egypt, Malta, and Tunisia. An eminent Conflict Resolution Specialist, He helped to resolve communal conflicts in his native Sandou and later in Ceylon and in Liberia's internecine conflicts.
We are proud to dedicate our Barack Obama Sustainable Development Institute in his honour as the Musa Darbo - BOSUDI.
Dr. Kebba Daffeh is a Veterinary Doctor and Lecturer in Animal Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Gambia.
He has served in many capacities including Director with the Department of Agriculture in Gambia. He founded, and is now Adviser to the Animal Welfare Advocates Association-Gambia, a chapter of Welttierschutz Stiftung (WTS Berlin, Germany).
He is Deputy Chair to the Board of the National Agriculture Research Institute and West Africa Representative for WTS.
Dr. Kebba Daffeh is the Honoree of our KeDSan Riverkeeper.
Haruna Darbo; USA
Hon. Bakary B. Dabo
Master Lamin Marong
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