The Iceland Friendship Association-The Gambia (IFAG), a registered charitable organization in The Gambia has spent over D1,543,779 in the country's education system benefitting 104 students. This was disclosed by Fabakary Kalleh, coordinator of the project at recent media briefing held at a hotel in Bijilo. According to him, the support was spent in sponsoring students from upper basic to senior secondary schools, tertiary education as well as university level. During the visit, he said that they visited some of their beneficiaries and were quite impressed with the current state of their project. Adama Thorpe, a first-year student of the University of The Gambia, who is a beneficiary of the programme, expressed delight for having benefited from the programme.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 27, 2017 14:48 UTC