The SOS Children's Village Basse comprises 12 family houses, a director's house, a guest house, an aunty house (SOS aunts take care of children when SOS mothers are away), administration, gatehouse, store/generator house, African hut and a laundry.
The project will also comprise an SOS Kindergarten and an SOS Hermann Primary School. The future SOS Primary School has the support of the Ministry of Social Welfare of in The Gambia. 420 children aged 6-12 benefit from the new SOS Primary School each year. Children attending the school come from both the SOS Children’s Village Basse and from the local community. SOS Children's Villages encourages the children at our SOS Children's Villages to interact with local children, and we want our facilities to benefit those who live near them. Nine personnel have been employed at the school: six teachers, the director and two administrators.