 
Contact Address Details:
Future
In Our Hands (FIOH)
Banjul area Head office
Kotu South
PO Box 352 Serrekunda
Kanifing Municipality, Ksmd
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 4460360 / 4460363
Email: office@fioh.org
malin.askhamre@fioh.org
Branches: 1
Directions:
Their signboard is opposite Kololi Tavern on the
Kololi Road.
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Information:
The Future In Our Hands (FIOH) was established in Gambia in
the early 1980s and is a member of the umbrella organisation
in the Greater Banjul area called TANGO. It is a Swedish based
charity and registered NGO which is focused on promoting education
and increasing the capacity of people in rural communities
to combat grinding poverty.
Areas of Intervention:
• Community Development Programme:-
The aim of the scheme is to alleviate
poverty by enhancing the capacity of community institutions
with special emphasis on human rights based advocacy and livelihood
skills training to allow poor and marginalised people
to raise their standards of living and economic independence.
FIOH Gambia works in tandem with village
development projects to identify the priority areas of any
programme before its execution. A plan is then set out in
the form of a Community Action Plan. A number of fairly wide
issues are tackled such as examples in the following:
- Agriculture and food
security (cereal stores, vegetable
gardening).
- Entrepreneurship skills training & civic education.
- Environment ( tree planting schemes, waste management, sewage).
- Gender
and equality (early marriages, FGM).
- Good governance & organisational development.
- Health (Malaria prevention & control, HIV/Aids,
hygiene, nutrition).
- Women & youth capacity building & empowerment.
The various Community Based Organisations (CBOs), which they
work with to achieve these goals are environmental clubs,
gender equality committees, mothers' clubs, parent teacher
associations (PTA), Alkalos and other community leaders, Village
Development Committees (VDCs) among others.
• Schools Construction
Through their Construction and Technical Training Unit FIOH
carries out schools building construction locally initiated
as part of its program or through building contracts received
from the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education via their
Project Coordination Unit. The department's international
donors includes the World Bank, EFA Fast Track Initiative,
UNICEF and others.
As at 2012 it has assisted with building or refurbishing about
160 school kitchens, 1,000 classrooms, 900 toilets, 230 staff
rooms and built 95 Lower Basic Schools.
• Teaching Methods
Their education development plan works on teacher training
in order to improve the standard of education in schools.
To this end an early learning reading system has been adapted
for The Gambia. The program is the Serholt Early Grade Reading
Ability (SEGRA) which began in 2009. It adopts active learning
which involves groups of six to eight pupils learning letters
and blending the sounds of letters into words through fun,
games and play using writing strips, books, rhymes, picture
and alphabet sound cards etc.
Funding & Affiliations:
Future In Our Hands is the implementing branch of
Gambiagrupperna
and its work is supported by funding from the Swedish International
Development Co-operation Agency in
Valhallavägen in
Stockholm.
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