{"id":555,"date":"2024-08-24T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T10:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/church.gc4.io\/?page_id=555"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:39:00","slug":"gambia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/gambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gambia-1-934x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3;object-fit:cover;width:476px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gambia-1-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gambia-1-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gambia-1-768x842.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gambia-1.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"background-color:#ffde2100\" class=\"wp-block-list has-heading-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1a33b79f8f2639827ff1d80b0a386882\">\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">Nicknamed the Smiling Coast of Africa, the Gambia stretches 450 km (280 miles and between 15-30 miles wide) along the&nbsp;<strong>Gambia<\/strong>&nbsp;river, the country is surrounded by Senegal, except for a 60-km Atlantic Ocean front.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">The country is one of the smallest in Africa, covering about 10.7 thousand square km and has a population of 2.5 million. With 176 people per square km, it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">Including the word \u201cthe\u201d in front of its name was originally to reduce confusion with similarly named&nbsp; Zambia and that convention continues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">The capital is Banjul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"background-color:#ffde2100\" class=\"wp-block-list has-heading-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-e9fae025b6543d821382433d6141a436\">\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">English is the only official language. (French in Senegal)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">According to Wikipedia there are 21 national languages, with Mandinka being the most used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">Currency is Dalasi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.5\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">Main export is peanuts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.3\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">In 2022, the poverty rate climbed to 53.4% in urban areas but, in rural areas it\u2019s almost 70%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.3\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">50% of the population doesn\u2019t have access to electricity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.3\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">2019 stats -96.4% are Muslim, 3.5% Christian (mostly Catholic), 0.1% other<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"line-height:1.3\" class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">In 2024 the average life expectancy is 64 years male, 68 years female<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-heading-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-959c83332fe839b3cb5e7ddbbac46c45\" style=\"background-color:#ffde2100\">Taken from the 2023 Unicef Report<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"background-color:#e317174a\" class=\"wp-block-list has-heading-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d26daed3ac3a6cc3ee98d5d7c562b231\">\n<li class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">Only 88% of the population in urban areas and 67% in rural areas have access to safe drinking water in households.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">Access to at least basic sanitation remains at about 47% and the proportion of households with at least basic handwashing facilities also remained unchanged, at 18% in 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">According to the latest national data, the prevalence rate of children experiencing violence remains high at 89%; 26% of married adolescent girls aged 15 to19 years experienced violence committed by their spouse and 14% of women aged 15-49 years experienced either physical or sexual violence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">In the area of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), prevalence remains high with 50.6% of girls aged between 0-14 years and 27.3% of girls aged 0-4 years have undergone FGM, with urban and rural disparities. In 2023, UNICEF and partners supported the improvement of child protection case management system including the establishment of child-friendly \u201cone-stop centres\u201d, development of the Gender Information Management System and the development of a new child marriage strategy and action plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-barlow-font-family\">2023 also saw the digitalization of the Gambia Birth Registration system thanks to the strong support from UNICEF and partners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-d445cf74 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-heading-color has-base-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/read-about\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">Back<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from the 2023 Unicef Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-project-details","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-555","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/555\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctgambia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}