The Seckou Keita Foundation aims to help relieve poverty in Senegal and the bordering regions of Guinea Bissau and The Gambia. We work in partnership with the Seckou Keita Fan Club based in Ziguinchor. The Fan Club identifies where funds are most needed and turns your donations into action.
Donate to improve people's access to healthcare...
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Patients, including pregnant women, currently travel 19kms by motorcycle to get from Bagaya in Ziguinchor to their nearest hospital. In emergencies, health workers call on ambulances from neighbouring villages but wait times are extensive and fees are prohibitive. These difficulties are the reason why some patients are reluctant to go to hospital for proper treatment.
The Seckou Keita Foundation is raising £8,000 to purchase an ambulance that will be owned and maintained by the Bagaya Health Centre, offering free emergency transport for the local community.
Click on the donate button to help improve access to healthcare for the people of Bagaya.
Your donations provided food for the people of Balandine
Your donations enabled us to make a donation of food to the people pf Balandine. This is a remote village without a market and with only basic amenities.
Balandine may be remote, but it is certainly not lacking in active community building.
In this video Seckou Keita takes us to Balandine with the Fan Club. This was his first visit and he uncovered a beautiful story...watch the video to find out more!
Your donations are helping us improve the environment...
In 2023 and 2024 we planted 40,000 mangrove propagules covering approx 8 hectares of land in the Casamance region, with the support of the Regional Directorate of Marine Protected Areas (Ziguinchor). Mangroves play a vital role in flood prevention, provide habitats for fish and molluscs and filter out salt allowing farmers to irrigate their land. They also mitigate the impacts of climate change by storing carbon.
The Fan Club also battled the rain to plant trees in Ziguinchor! Environmental projects make a small contribution to help offset Seckou's carbon footprint. We will continue to make these contributions as part of our vision for the Foundation.
Seckou's single, Alam Gi, meaning 'Environment' was inspired by the passion of the Fan Club to take action.