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2025

  1. News July 2025

    The second round of our IT courses at the center has started – every Saturday and Sunday highly motivated participants meet: 22 beginners and 11 advanced learners. The rush is great, demand far exceeds the available places – a clear sign of the need! …

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2024

  1. 8th Newsletter August 2024

    Dear friends of Gambia, in recent months Ebrima and DYH, the cause so close to his heart, have been able to take a few steps forward, thanks to several new contacts that built on one another. In September the cooperation with KEYCDA (Kombo East Youth and …

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2023

  1. 7th Newsletter June 2023

    Dear friends of Gambia, it has been a long time since we heard from DYH, so it is high time to share what is happening there. The long-awaited expansion of electricity has now become reality. And within just a few weeks. But first things first. In May …

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  2. Batik workshop

    After a long break, a course could be offered again at the weekend, 25.-26.2.23. Beforehand, donors were once again sought to finance the materials and teachers needed. Hallelujah, quite a lot came together. Thank you to all supporters. Ebrima was fully …

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2022

  1. Ebrima Jaiteh's trip to Europe

    Ebrima is currently travelling in Europe to maintain existing contacts and make new ones. He spent 12 days visiting Winnenden. A visit to the Asarja faith community was "wonder"ful for him. He reported on his work and that his car, without which the work …

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  2. Work after the rainy season October 22

    During the rainy season everything grows and thrives magnificently. Unfortunately not only useful things, so every year a big campaign has to be started to get the center back into shape. Great that everyone helps together, young and old lend a hand. …

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  3. Renewed deployment of the Cuban doctors in Pirang

    Dear friends and colleagues of DYH, With great pleasure I want to update our friends and partners of Develop The Youth Heritage (Gambia) about our recent health program (DYH) held at Pirang and it’s surrounding villages at Kombo East, west Coast region, …

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  4. NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2022

    GAMBIA….....DYH…..... SKILLCENTER.......PIRANG.....January..2022..…….NEWS Dear Gambia friends, in August 2 years ago the property in Pirang was acquired. Since then, the property has been enclosed by hand, a shelter has been created, a well drilled, …

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2021

2020

  1. making progress...

    The garden is turning into a paradise. A great deal is being planted. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ The construction of the toilets is also making progress:

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  2. 2nd deployment of the Cuban doctors

    Another deployment of the Cuban doctors in Pirang, co-organised by DYH. The team of volunteer doctors in Pirang. The Cuban ambassador with a sick baby and its mum. DYH provided the entire team of doctors with food and drink on the DYH grounds.

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  3. NEW PROJECT: TOILETTS

    „An update from DYH Pirang. As we all can see from the pictures of the hard working boys and girls, currently DYH is digging toilets at ist center. These boys have no machines but everything is done manually by hand. We are asking for help buying …

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  4. Shelter

    the construction of the shelter is progressing. The foundation and the roof are finish. Now its turn of the inferior construction.

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  5. sad news

    a great man has left us Mr Ebrima Sawaneh haas been working with Raid-The Gambia for over 10 years as M&E Officer responsble for monitoring and evaluation Rais project activities and programs, Sawaneh has served as the adviser to (DYH) organization with …

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  6. Shelter 15.07

    15.07 today we have started the foundation for the shelter. Thank you all very much for your woderful support and contributes!

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  7. July 2020

    meeting with the station commander MRS. Mengeh to discuss issues and to inform them our organisation in Pirang the group will learn new skills and ways to do new briks (sponsoredd by Ebrima Sawaneh) they will do laundry soaps, bath soaps and opwder soaps …

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  8. June 2020

    June 20 – workshop how to make soaps and batik Cuba doctors have donefree health check for the people from Pirang. DYH did the transportation and the catering fort he doctors (with a donation from Germany) Ebrima Sawaneh (director of community …

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  9. Project Container

    Dorothee and Anneliese visited Ebrima in Gambia in 2019. There he presented his project DYH. They were so enthusiastic and wanted to help. The only question was how? Dorothee thought to herself, we have so many things lying around in the cellar, which …

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  10. Container reached Gambia

    Great joy, the container has reached its destination. The call to collect machines, tools, school equipment and much more was answered by many people around Winnenden. The 12 meter long container was filled up to the roof after 4 months and could start …

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  11. the meeting

    May 18 - First contact by Anneliese with Ebrima, the uncle of a young Gambia refugee living in Winnenden Jul. 19 - Ebrima Jaiteh comes to Winnenden fort he first time Jan. 19 - meeting from volunteers and gambians in Winnenden. Ebrima presents his …

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  12. October 2019 - May 2020

    October 2019 to March 2020: - clearing of the land - Trench for the walling - Manual production of innumerable wall stones for the walling of the area January 2020 - Ebrima comes to Winnenden to help with container loading before returning to Gambia at …

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  13. getting started

    Our first step was to build a wall, for which we produced stones ourselves. We were allowed to draw the water needed for the cement from the deep neighbouring well, as we ourselves did not have our own water at that time. 2 gates were needed to allow …

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