Gambia Programs


Gambia	United States	African-American

As a pan-African publication, Port of Harlem takes great pleasure working with the people of The Gambia. Currently, we are involved in six distinct program areas in The Gambia. Continue reading to learn more about them.

Magazine Business and Distribution
Ouring of our distribution points in The Gambia
Port of Harlem Gambia Education Partnership (POHGEP)
Port of Harlem staff members in The Gambia are: Amadou Baba Galleh Jallow and Ebrahim Cham.
Readers sponsor children who attend the Nyato Nursery School in Nema Kunku.
Port of Harlem manages a pen pal program between American students and students in The Gambia.
New Program: Alhaji Mamour Secca Memorial Nursery / Lower Basic School.
Article by Rhonda Woodward Vincent.
In the Community
Port of Harlem sponsors a neighborhood soccer team in Nema Kunku
Port of Harlem donates books and artifacts to the National Museum and National Library
Readers' Annual Trip to The Gambia
Click here to view 2009 itinerary including medical preparations
Our International Shipping Partner

BMS Shipping; 1296 Sheridan Avenue Suite 5I; Bronx, NY USA 10456-8118; 917-225-8247

(Serrekunda, The Gambia Office 641-1954) yandehcodou@yahoo.com

POHGEP - Sponsor a Child

Wayne and Binta Jallow

You can join Port of Harlem with sponsoring a child's pre-K through 2nd grade education for only $149. We will provide you the child's name and yearly updates on the student's progress. Early next year, we will also provide you a picture of
the child.

Why this school? This partnership is the result of a more than decade old friendship between the publisher of this magazine and Suwareh Jabai, a board member of the school. To pay on this website using your personal check or credit card, click here, or send $149, indicating whether you want to sponsor a male or female, to Port of Harlem; 3215 W Street, SE; Washington, D.C. 20020-3364.

Photo: POH Publisher Wayne Young with Nyato graduate Binta Jallow.

POHGEP - The Pen Pal Program

The pen pal program gives children on both sides of the Atlantic:

a positive experience with communicating with other African people
encouragement to become globally aware
an opportunity to express themselves through art and/or writing

After reading about Romare Bearden, Demetrius Woodard of the United States made this collage for Abdoulie Bah of Banjul, The Gambia. (Click the picture to make it larger.)

POHGEP - Alhaji Mamour Secca Memorial Nursery / Lower Basic School

Click here to send them a message.

Photo: Momodu M. Jallow and Ndeye Isatou Jallow

In the Community - Port of Harlem Soccer Team

Bakary Jadama and Omar Ceesay, members of the Port of Harlem Soccer
Team, are all smiles with their new T-shirts printed by Unitees of Washington, D.C.

In the Community - Donations to the National Museum and National Library

Martin Delany

(Left to Right) Wayne Young, POH publisher; Amadou Baba Galleh Jallow, POH Banjul Representative; unidentified museum officer; Momodou C. Joof, Executive Director of the Gambia National Council of Arts and Culture; Ebrahim Charm, POH Banjul Representative, and Kevin Turner, POH contributor. POH presented Joof with a portrait of Martin Robison Delany, the father of Pan-Africanism, that now hangs in the Juffreh Museum. (Framing done by Attitude Exact Gallery, Washington, D.C.).