15/04/2026
Project Gambia heads out to The Gambia today into a developing crisis of epic proportions on the back of the America/Israel war with Iran. In a society where farmers depend heavily on imported fertiliser and a huge share of household income goes on food, supply chain disruptions through the strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane not just for oil and gas but also for fertiliser, is beginning to have a massive impact on the price of foodstuffs and is intensifying cost of living pressures.
XN Iraki, a professor of business and economics at the University of Nairobi, said the impact of higher oil prices would be felt “acutely” in Africa because most people on the continent worked in the informal sector, where there was “uncertain income”.This crisis will be significantly worse in The Gambia which is the fifth poorest country in Africa. When Paul Lafferty attempts to conduct business with wholesalers and warehouses to purchase rice and other foodstuffs for Saint John's School for the Deaf, Serekunda, and Saint Anthony's Lower Basic School and Nursery School he will be confronted with significant price rises.
If you can help Project Gambia now there would never be a better time. In a society where hundreds of thousands are one meal away from hunger now is the time. Education + Food = A route out of poverty for children in developing countries
Project Gambia: People Feeding People
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