The Starfish Malaria Project
About the project
This three-year project was started in June 2007. It aims to reduce the number of reported cases of malaria and deaths from malaria in the Gunjur area of The Gambia, West Africa.
This will be done in a number of ways, including: Providing insecticide-treated mosquito nets to families with children and pregnant women; Educating the population further about the risks of malaria and its prevention.
Information About Volunteering
The Marlborough Brant Group (MBG) was founded in 1981 by a group of people in a small Wiltshire town who wanted to learn more about the ways of life of people in other parts of the world, and to get a better understanding of the problems of development.
In 1982 we established a link in Gunjur in The Gambia, West Africa and since then, there has been a steady flow of people between the two communities. In particular we send volunteers to spend time working with development projects for a period of three months. At the same time we have volunteers from Gunjur gaining experience in their particular field in Marlborough.
All volunteers, whether they are from UK or from The Gambia, live with families immersed in the life of the community. Our volunteers find that their experiance in Gunjur is one that stays with them for the rest of their lives. Most have kept in contact with Gunjur andsome have gone into careers related to the development world.
MBG has also been involved with a number of development projects in Gunjur. These are now under the management of the Trust Agency for Rural Development (TARUD) who are also responsible for the volunteers while they are in Gunjur, along with the Gunjur Link Committee (GLC).
