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