Gambian Association Ireland, diaspora of Ireland Gambian Association Ireland (Ireland) The Gambia is located in the western part of West Africa with a total population estimated at 1.73 million. The population of the Gambia is mainly young people with more than half about 63.55 percent is below 25 years. The Gambian economy depends main on groundnuts export and tourism. It is a very beautiful country with a wide array of flora and fauna. Its beaches are very famous, and tourists from all over the world are attracted to them. However despite these attraction and the river Gambia which is its major tourist attraction and the dominant feature running through the heart of the country. The Gambia remains a poor country in Africa with no natural resource and the poor quality of the agricultural land means only limited amount of crop can be widely grown. Due to the current global ecomonic crisis these farmers are vulnerable to changes in the world peanut prices. In most case people depending on farming almost consume the money they would have received from the havesting of these product before even the product is sold. As a result of these factors and many others, most people are left in a venarable financial suituation that let them to make their child education a secondary issue.