A
renowned Gambian prince, Ebrahim Sanyang, has expressed his philanthropic
commitment to help in addressing some of the pressing challenges of Tanji
Kambeng Kafo, a community-based association in Tanji consisting of fishmongers
and other petty traders.
The
association has adopted Prince Ebrahim as its father in cognizance of the man’s
commitment in helping under-privileged people and communities around Africa.
Prince
Ebrahim is the founder of Prince Ebrahim Future Africa Foundation (PEFAF), an
Africa-focused charitable foundation.
The
commitment of Prince Ebrahim was renewed to Kambeng Kafo by the project manager
of PEFAF, Seedy Darboe, during a meeting with members of the association on
Thursday in Tanji.
Mr
Darboe said the meeting was to discuss with the members of the association to
put in concrete measures in solving their main pressing challenges as the
prince is ready and willing to help them.
Mr
Darboe said he previously had a meeting with the association but the recent
political impasse made it difficult to implement some of the issues discussed
at the meeting.
Now
that things are normal, he said, “I can you assure of Prince Ebrahim’s swift
intervention”.
Tanji
fish market is the busiest fish market in The Gambia; it supplies fish to both
Gambia and Senegal.
To
the members of Kambeng Kafo, the Thursday meeting was to update their adopted
father with the challenges that the association is grappling with and seek his
generous intervention.
The
president of the Kafo, Lamin Ceesay, commended Prince Ebrahim for his
commitment to support groups like his, saying the Kambeng Kafo has very high
hopes in the prince to help in addressing some of the pressing challenges the
association is faced with.
“I
want to tell Prince Ebrahim, our father, that we have already registered our
organisation and we are always ready to work with him to realise our dreams,”
he said.
Outlining
their main challenges, Mr Ceesay said they need storage facilities and
financial support to implement some of their worthwhile projects.
Binta
Jadama, vice president of the Kambeng Kafo, said members of the Kafo have great
deal of hope in their father, the prince.
