Design for a library in Bakau, Gambia. In calibration with the Dutch-Gambian Foundation: ‘Give Gambia a Future’. Building phase.

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Gambia has one official national library. It is located in the capital Banjul, which is 25 km from the place Bakau. Bakau and Banjul Serrekunda counts about 40,000 residents, more than fifty percent are young people. The construction of this new library with about 5000 semi-scientific books is a new opportunity for young people added to develop and to provide a better future.