The Alas Gambia Association receives four bicycles for its projects in the African country

As a result of the collaboration between the Bicis para la Vida by Škoda project of the Contador Foundation and the Barcelona brand Moma Bikes, the purposes of the Alas Gambia Association in this small West African country have been reinforced with a small fleet of four new bicycles that will receive a useful life for educational purposes, through sports activities, the promotion of mechanical pedagogies, and to facilitate transport from their homes.

This institution has been working in this country since 2008, although under the name ‘FIOC-The future is our country’, when a Spanish couple living in the town of Kotu set up projects to provide schooling for children working at the Manjai-Kunda rubbish dump. That seed later mutated into the name ‘A Life, A School’, of which ‘Alas’ is an acronym.

The Gambia is a small, narrow country of less than three million inhabitants, surrounded by Senegal and with an outlet to the Atlantic, which is structured around the lower course of the river of the same name. With an incredibly rich environment and fauna, the result of an exemplary biodiversity, its social structure presents significant inequalities in which girls and boys encounter many problems both for their continuity in their studies and for the development of their full potential.

Alas Gambia firmly believes in the importance of education as the best channel for the improvement of their future and for this reason, through a financial fund, they are in charge of covering the whole cycle of studies from pre-school to university for a community of more than 300 students, even in the most exceptional cases. Through Alas Gambia, it is possible to sponsor the children’s education.