Waranka GR Association
(receipt n° 02421 GRD) was set upon May the 29th 2004 in to contribute
actively in the development of Guinaw Rail which is in the commune of
Pikine (Dakar-Sénégal)
Aims
W.GR is set up to:
a) Promote the improvement of the
population living
conditions and environment
b) Restore harmony and solidarity among people
c) Pick up the minds by strengthening
people’s capacity
of analysis and their know-how
d) Participate in all development policies
concerning our
district in particular and throughout the town in general, priorily in
the environment,
health and education fields.
Concerned area
The activities of Waranka GR
are limited within the two communes (south and north Guinaw-Rail).
However the
association can collaborate with NGOS and others bodies located out of
this
area.
Organisation
The
association organs are:
The Generate Assembly which the paramount
and
orientation organ It is formed by all the members of the association.
The Administrative
Council which makes decisions. It
shall be elected for 2 years and is renewable once.
The Bureau which is the executive organ. A long with the Administrative Council it
is
in charge of administering the association for 2 year and supported by
there (3)
units.
The Female Unit
The Over Sixties Unit
The Youth Unit
Activities:
Our activities are mainly
dominated by health, environment and education but we happen to work in
the
social and cultural fields.
Many projects have been
achieved since the creation of the association.
A reforestation programme which enable us
to plaint
round 600 fruit and forest trees
Development of a malaria programme with impregnated
mosquitoes net donation with support of Senegal Amerca Project
Setting up an antenna to fight againts diabetes and support diabetes sufferrers
Supervising the young by helping sportive
and cultural
associations and creating female units.
Developing a teaching to read and write
programme for
non-educated women
Developing a computer science training
programme
Inauguration
of a district library.
Placing statutory garbage cans at people
disposals.
A programme of various donations ( medical
materials
for hospitals, books for association school, second hand clothes for
“daaras” (quranic
school) and families in need
Implementing actions to fight against the
floods
in Guinaw Rail
Opening a primary school to increase education infrastructures in shortage in Guinaw rail.
Partners:
The association belongs to the
Coordination Committee for the Development of Guinaw Rail (CCD/G.R)
which
federates all the basic community organisations (B.C.O), female
associations
and sportive and cultural associations (S.C.A) located in north and
south Guinaw Rail
At national level our main
partners are majors of the two communes north Guinaw Rail and south
Guinaw
Rail.
We also work with NGOS such
as
ASTOU
AFRICA RUN
THE LUDLOW CORPS OF RLMS, Fairfield, CT
SENEGAL AMERICA PROJECT
CHANTIER DE PORTE PLUMES
Our
God mother: Waranka BA
Waranka BA was a woman who
invested all her energies for development in the early occupation of
Guinaw
Rail. She settled down this slummy district which originated from the
clearing
of Dakar and
the growth of the rural exodus in the 1970’s. Of course in
neither basic infrastructures
nor urban services could be found in the district in those days.
Young kids had to cross the rail
roads or the high way in other words they had to go a long way to fetch
knowledge. For medical cares too people would go toward hospitals which
were
mainly located in Pikine. Having access to drinkable water was classed
as
utopia so people would get water from wells otherwise they would go a
long way,
put it this way: behind the rail roads.
The
then prevailing situation
which was an obvious sign of poverty couldn’t leave a women
like “mere Waranka”
(mother Waranka) indifferent,” Mum WARANKA” so we,
young people in those days,
used to call her.
In political parties, communal
associations and ”Mbootay” (association for
development), she had always acted
as an unrivalled leader by blowing an extraordinary dynamism, and clear
vision
in the projects for the improvement of the population of Guinaw
Rail’s living
conditions and environment.
Thanks to her devotion to the
cause of basic development and her desperate struggle for sustainable
development Guinaw Rail has obtained its present collective equipments
and
basic urban services. Besides some of them such as the well-known
Waranka
market, some fountains, services, etc., are named after her.
From the then and still
beloved mother who passed away in the morning of October the 18th
2003 after a brief illness, we took the flag and are determined to keep
it
flying by continuing tirelessly the fight for the development of our
district
and a better environment; because we do know that there are still many
challenges yet to pick up.
From
now on her name will be inherently linked with our whole philosophy and
vision.
