By Lamin Kujabi
Silri Morley, Country Director of The Gambia Peace Corps, has said that her entity is “moving into a new chapter of growth and quality of work” with regards to their interventions in The Gambia; ranging from training, selection of Americans coming into the country for their mission, to the partnership they build with the communities.
Madam Silri Morley said this last week when she, together with some officials of the US Embassy in The Gambia met with President Barrow at State House.
Speaking to the press after the meeting, she described the meeting as very important.
Giving a brief background on the Corps, the Country Director said they have been in The Gambia through the invitation of the Government since 1967.
“We discussed with the President to expand the number of Peace Corps volunteers coming to the country and to further strengthen the work in the country,” she said.
Highlighting some of their works, Fatou Baldeh said they do conduct lots of advocacy and awareness creation programmes around sexual and gender-based violence. “We work with a lot of female victims of the former regime and we also create awareness on female genital mutilation. We have been very involved in the efforts to ensure that the bill that threatened to repeal the Women’s Act does not happen,” she remarked.
Madam Baldeh also expressed the need to engage the community and to sensitise them about the impact of female genital mutilation.
