About Us
Banko Fundation
Banko Foundation is a nonprofit organization registered in The Gambia, committed to serving underserved communities through the arts—including visual, performing, building arts, and design. Inspired by environmental sustainability and the Open Source concept, Banko is developing an eco-arts village in Kassi Kunda, providing a space for regional and international creatives to live, work, learn, and create.
The foundation uses vernacular materials and traditional building methods to construct earth buildings rooted in its unique design aesthetics. Through community arts projects and design-build workshops, Banko engages students and graduates in architecture and design to collaborate with local communities and build meaningful, culturally responsive structures that address local challenges.
OUR VISION
To create project sites in an eco-arts village setting with vocational skill training program in underserved communities that invites persons from different part of the world to participant in the arts and designs projects for skill and knowledge transfer, to enable the local community drive their own development process and promote the local economy.
As an organization that has a focus on the arts for human capital development, Banko Foundation:
Open Membership to individuals and organizations in the arts, architecture, and humanitarian sectors who support artistic and sustainable goals.
Initiating artistic, humanitarian, and educational projects that build cultural bridges between The Gambia, Africa, and the world.
Promoting intellectual freedom and the free exercise of the arts to contribute to a local-global marketplace of ideas.
Supporting skills development and social integration for disadvantaged communities through arts-driven initiatives that empower rural development.
