The Gambia Upcountry Development Charity

Supporting and enabling villagers in upcountry Gambia to achieve sustained community development through economic growth and access to education.

Worldwide, millions of people spend each day without running water or electricity; living under the poverty line with income of less than $1 per day. Children have no access to a formal education, basic healthcare or sufficient food. Despite working hard, their families struggle to meet these daily needs and are unable to develop economically.

This is especially true in upcountry Gambia where resources and support are extremely limited.

Founded in 2007

The Gambia Upcountry Development Charity (GUD) was founded by David and Janet Underwood who were inspired by their first visit to Kanubeh in 2007.

Since 2007, the charity has supported and enabled the villagers to:

• Build a nursery school;
• Set up a committee to organise and run the nursery school; and
• Plan how to fund the school themselves by considering sustainable business plans such as a banana farm.

GUD currently finances the running costs of the nursery school. All of the money we receive through fundraising and donations goes directly to those it was intended to support and everybody involved with the charity is a volunteer.

GUD is a community development charity that prides itself on fairly representing the people we work closely with in The Gambia. To best achieve its aims, GUD deliberately remains politically neutral and does not affiliate itself with any political party or commentary.