Power Up Gambia

Power Up Gambia is a unique organization with a specific goal: to provide power to the Sulayman Jungkung General Hospital (SJGH) in the Gambian village of Bwiam. This organization was founded by Kathryn Cunningham as a junior at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. While volunteering at the hospital, Kathryn witnessed the hospital staff struggling to serve the local population because of a lack of continuous electricity. After seeing an infant die because an incubator could not be powered, she decided something needed to be done. Upon returning to the United States, Kathryn founded Power Up Gambia with the mission of providing solar panels to this hospital. Honorary board members include Dodou Bammy Jagne, the Gambian Ambassador to the United States, and George Haley, the former United States Ambassador to the Gambia.