New Hope Academy

Gambian Scholarship Program

In the Gambia, west Africa, the government is able to provide free education for all elementary school students. Junior high and high school students can only go to school if they can afford it. But school in the Gambia is very inexpensive by Western standards. For only $60 for a whole school year, a student can go to "junior secondary school" (junior high), and for only $130 for a whole school year, a student can go to "senior secondary school" (high school).

Please help sponsor a student! You can make a donation of any amount, or, if you would like to sponsor a student for a year, we will match you up with a specific student and you will receive their name and contact information.

Picture of school classroom in the Central River Division in the Gambia

As soon as proper accounting procedures are in place, multiple options will be offered for donation methods. Please call the New Hope Academy Office at 301-459-7311 to arrange to make a donation.

It's difficult to capture the pride that the people of this village have in this undertaking. The adults are overjoyed that their children can receive an education that few, if any, of them could. They also stressed that by connecting with New Hope Academy families, their world would expand and they could experience brothers and sisters as yet unknown to them. [Village of Daru]

See the "Side by Side in the Gambia" slide show, about a service project by our students who went to the Gambia in summer 2007: Download 32MB Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (can be watched if you have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, or to download free software that can play it, go to www.OpenOffice.org).

Go to the main PTA page.
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