Further Reading

The following articles provide more information on the history and projects of NSGA:

Partners for Progress: A Canada-Africa Venture in University Building

The inspiring and instructive story of a partnership for progress between Saint Mary’s University in Canada and the Government of The Gambia with the collaboration of Nova Scotia-Gambia Association to provide higher learning in The Gambia.

Editors: Michael J. Larsen and James H. Morrison

2006, Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Saint Mary’s University

ISBN 1-55266-184-9

Reflections – A Project Overseas Making a Big Difference in Thousands of Lives

Burris Devanney

AVISO, Fall 2005, pp. 7-8

Nova Scotia Teachers Union, 3106 Joseph Howe Drive, Halifax, NS

ISSN 0830-0011.

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Into Africa – Exporting our natural goodwill

The Nova Scotia-Gambia-Association quietly builds ties between Atlantic Canada and a small West African nation.

Peter Evans

Saltscapes, January/February 2005

40 Alderney Drive, Suite 501, Dartmouth, NS

ISSN 1492-3351

Working with the Region

History of the NSGA, which began in 1985 as a high school-based, one-shot development education project and developed into a major force in education in The Gambia.

Chapter 23, by Burris Devanney and Susan Rolston

Editor: Ian McAllister

1997, Henson College, Dalhousie Unversity, Halifax, NS

ISBN 0-7703-8696-2

Making Global Connections: The Nova Scotia-Gambia Project

A 1986 school trip has grown into an eight-year-old twinning partnership and a province-wide development organization. Here are five ingredients to their success.

Alana Robb

Green Teacher, Issue 40, October –November 1994

95 Robert Street, Toronto, ON

ISSN 1192-1285

Windows on the World

Chapter 13: A history of our Associations’ activities

Burris Devanney

Editor: Ian McAllister

1993, Lester Pearson Institute for International, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

ISBN 0-7703-9486-8

Environmental Education for Survival in Gambia

Training young people for environmental leadership – a matter of survival in West Africa

Ann Muecke

Green Teacher, Issue 57, Winter 1998-99

95 Robert Street, Toronto

ISSN 1192-1285

Learning from Children in Difficult Circumstances

In 1994, NSGA operated a centre in Bundung, The Gambia, to work with a highly visible, yet previously unaccessible target group of children in difficult circumstances: the “almudos”.

Compiled by Lisa Goulet

1995, Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children

180 Argyle Avenue #339, Ottawa K2P 1B7

ISBN 0-9698269-1-5