Our Story
The association has been established to create and sustain national and international projects to ensure sustainable improvement of quality in social and economic areas through fighting poverty, creating employment, creating projects for the development of the states of women and youth, collaborating with national and international civic and other like-minded organizations, taking UN Development Goals into consideration, and especially considering the problems of “the least developed countries”.
In 2011, two people from The Gambia came to visit Community Volunteers Foundation(TOG). They stated that they are coming from an organization working for women’s development and child care in The Gambia and they want to collaborate with TOG. Coincidentally, İbrahim Betil was there, and he wanted to visit The Gambia to get introduced to local people and to understand the expectations for a potential collaboration. He went there two months later; after seeing the situation of The Gambians and living in their villages for a week, he came back to meet his friends. They had to make a choice: They could either to ignore the situation and leave them alone, or develop projects to contribute to humanity in a world where 1 billion people are fighting against poverty and lack of water. They took on the second one and decided to establish an association to support sustainable development projects in the least developed countries. SEN DE GEL was founded in 2012.