EU provides D11 million to improve women’s rights in Gambia

The EU chargée d'affaires, Ms Agnѐs Guillaud and Mrs Oumou Tall, national director of SOS Children's Villages The Gambia Wednesday announced that the project "Women's Empowerment for Change", financed by the EU to the tune of 200,000 euros (more than 11 million dalasi), is starting in June 2014 for a 36 months' duration. This initiative is part of EU's commitment to fighting poverty, including the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, and promoting women's rights and fundamental freedoms in the context of sustainable development…