Prospect for Girls

Gambia is a country where gender inequality remains a substantial challenge to overcome, and through her organisation Prospect for Girls, Fatoumatta has been leading the charge.
Alongside her Co-Founder, Kujeh Kah, Fatoumatta founded Prospect for Girls in March 2018 with the ambition of providing vocational skills and ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights’ education to vulnerable women in the Gambia. The two seminal projects were funded by the US Embassy in Banjul.
The first was a nationwide health campaign dubbed “My Period My Pride”, training 1,807 girls from 25 junior schools over a period of eight months. The second is a vocational skills training programme which was launched on International Women’s Day 2019 and recruited 40 women and girls to train them in tailoring, graphics design, food & beverage management and photography, recently graduating with a comprehensive, income-generating education.
The plan for 2020 is to take on 16 women with disabilities for the next incarnation of the programme, however, this is dependent on funding.
Fatoumatta attended the One Young World 2018 Summit in the Hague. She was the recipient of a €5,000 grant from her delegation partner OFID for her organisation Eye Care For All. She invested this into a transformative new project called “Free Sight Restoration Surgeries For 100 Less Privileged People in Rural Gambia”, providing 100 cataract surgeries to elderly patients in rural Gambia and beyond, monumentally improving their quality of life.