The Gambia: GRCS Commences Cash Transfer Project

The Gambia Red Cross Society (GRCS) has commenced a cash transfer of D4,752,000 to 594 needy households in the country.

Director of Programmes and Operations at GRCS, Abdoulie Fye, explained that the humanitarian organisation was implementing the project in collaboration with Catholic Relief Service (CRS).

Households in Kanifing Municipality, West Coast, Lower River, Central River and Upper River Regions (South) will each receive eight thousand dalasis in two months.

Almost half of The Gambia’s two million population live below the poverty line, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

With the Covid-19 pandemic creating an even more turbulent economic environment, more people find it difficult to secure jobs.

Fye said Covid-19 had adversely impacted the lives of every household in the country as well as businesses and other income activities.

He noted that to mitigate the impact of Covid-19, GRCS, with financial support from the government of Canada, decided to provide cash for food and nutrition to the aforementioned households.

The GRCS official further disclosed that Africell Afri Money will carry out the cash transfer.

In December 2020, GRCS launched an unconditional cash transfer of about D6.4 million. The cash was distributed to 2,231 vulnerable families across the country.

The funding from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) was transferred to households in partnership with Africell Afri Money.

Each identified beneficiary across the country received D3,200.

Source: The Point

Photo source: DFID UK Department for International Development

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