“Books for Africa,” initiative based in the United States of America Monday 20 February, 2012, donated 400 law books worth 60,000 dollars to the Female Lawyers Association-The Gambia (FLAG), at a ceremony held at its secretariat in Bakau.
The team leader cum director of Law and Democracy program at Books for Africa initiative, Mr Lane Ayres, said his organisation conceived the idea to support FLAG upon receiving law books from Thomas Reuters, a private company based in the United States of America.
Mr. Ayres, coordinator,  “Run the Democracy Program for Africa,” which donates the  books to Primary, Secondary and Senior Secondary Schools across Africa,  said  the gesture is meant to bolster the role of women and female lawyers in The Gambia.
  In receiving the items, the  President of FLAG, Ms.Nenneh Cham, said the donation was not solicited for, stressing that one of their colleagues in the U.S lobbied for FLAG to be included among organisations that benefitted from ‘Book for Africa’ initiative.
Madam Cham said the books are generally on legal practice, international law, women’s right, intellectual property, criminal law procedure amongst others.
She noted that they will create a library at the secretariat for the use of FLAG members, members of the Bar and law students.
“The basic principles of law are almost the same. American mode of practice is more to do with the practice itself than the theory,” Ms Cham remarked.
According to FLAG president, the donated books would be useful to her members and legal practitioners in general while noting her members resolve to practice their rightful role in giving legal advice and representing indigenous children and women.
Cham said FLAG embarked on sensitising the indigenes about national and international laws in a bid to enable them recognise their rights.
She expressed her associations’ desire to collaborate with Books for Africa with a view to enhance the work of female lawyers while thanking them for the donation.
 She assured that the donated items would be effectively put into good used.