FAWEGAM Hosts Fund-Raising Dinner
Friday 13th July 2007

Women activists and almost everyone around the globe have come round to the view that women are indispensable forces in the development endeavours of any nation-state. It is an indisputable and incontrovertible truth that no nation can attain her development objectives without the active and constructive involvement of women in the development process. And interestingly, many women around the world have recognised this crucial role and are more than poised to contribute their widow’s mite to the enhancement of meaningful development and progress in their communities, countries, continent and even on world-scale.

It is in recognition of the aforesaid fact that the Gambia chapter of Forum for African Women Educationists( FAWEGAM) recently hosted a grand dinner at the exquisite Sun Beach Hotel in Bakau to raise funds to build a multi-purpose centre and a secretariat to support girls. The funds realised would be also ploughed back to support girls’ education as well as to ensure the comprehensive development of women and girls to enable them make positive impact on the meaningful development of the country.

In her address at the dinner, Coordinator of FAWE, Yadicon Njie-Eribo, disclosed that the organisation have hundred mother’s club nation-wide and that the clubs consist of very strong women who support girls’ education by providing uniforms, stationery, materials for keeping their schools clean among many other areas of intervention.

Deputising for the First Lady of the Republic, Secretary of State for Information, Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, acknowledged that the huge turn-out that the dinner recorded was a clear indication of people’s awareness and recognition of the unique roles of FAWEGAM in supporting girls’ education and furthering the cause of Gambian women.

“Over the years, FAWEGAM has forged and continues to forge strong links and partnership at all levels in pursuance of our goals in improving the performance of girls and ensuring their retention in school. I am proud to be part of a movement that is contributing significantly towards the achievement of a universal goal with changes felt at the grassroots,” she posited.