About The Project

This 4 week project is a new scheme developed by the Swansea-Gambia Link and Swansea University International Office and is part of the broader Wales for Africa Health Links Network. Ten post-graduate students from the Schools of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences and Arts and Humanities and Media Studies will travel to Gambia to carry out a research project looking at Health in the context of International development. The project aims to consider the inter-dependency between malnutrition and broader environmental and development issues. It will go towards helping the UN Millennium Development Goal paying particular attention to MDG 8 – A global Partnership for Development. The students will work together with students from Gambia University and Medical School to explore the immediate and broader factors that result in malnutrition. To do this they will utilise a case-study methodology, selecting one infant suffering from malnutrition and considering the social, cultural and environmental pathways that have led to the infant's illness.
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Sunday, 22 August 2010

The project finishes...

This week has seen the Swansea-Gambia Link Project 2010 come to an end, but has also seen the completion of an 86-page report that we hope will provide a working-practice structure for future multi-disciplinary partnership projects.

The project has been hugely successful, on both a professional and personal level, and has convinced us all that partnership projects are a hugely beneficial way to approach global health care and international development.

This week has been all about finishing the report, and so on both Monday and Tuesday we gathered once again at CIAM’s offices to work with the Gambian students. Having finished the bulk of the report last week, it was largely the small but time-consuming details that needed to be finished; referencing, formatting etc. After two long days, the report was finished, polished and ready-to-distribute by Tuesday evening.


With this major milestone complete, we decided to host a thank you meal on Wednesday evening for all of the people who have helped us during our time in Gambia, from senior health officials to our amazing drivers, Ebrahim and Soreba. We arranged for a local chef to prepare Chicken Yassa and barbequed goat, and decorated Dana Lodge with welsh bunting and flags.

It was a great evening, not only for the chance to see everyone one last time, but to have everyone together in order for ourselves and the Gambian students to offer our thanks and appreciation for the great amount of work and assistance that has helped us succeed for the past four weeks.

We hope that the success of this project will enable the Swansea-Gambia Link to develop further with yearly projects, and so the myriad relationships we have developed during our time in Gambia will be integral to that, and hugely beneficial to future project leaders and participants.

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