When VETS UNITED Gambia started in 2015 neither the Gambia College School of Agriculture nor the University of the Gambia had animal welfare in their curricula. In 2016/2017 Gambia College and Gambia University identified the main deficits regarding animal welfare topics in academic education, and missing content was selected and complied with. In the following years the revised content was accredited for all Certificate and Diploma programmes at Gambia College (Certificate in Animal Health and Production, Certificate in General Agriculture, Basic Certificate in Animal Health and Production and Higher National Diploma in Animal Health and Production). Since September 2023 the animal welfare course is a stand-alone, mandatory course. This will ensure that over 1,000 students will be taught animal welfare per year at Gambia College. The collaboration with University of the Gambia (UTG) was terminated in Sept 2021. Despite the termination of the collaboration, animal welfare was accredited in July 2023 as mandatory course for the new veterinary science course at university as well as animal health and welfare as mandatory course for BSc in General Agriculture.

Since 2016 Dr Daffeh has conducted weekly lectures and practicals covering animal welfare topics in theory and practice for the students at university (until 2021) and college (ongoing). From 2021 Dr Daffeh trained and supervised lecturers to further develop animal welfare teaching capacity at Gambia College. In March 2022 Dr Daffeh was employed as lecturer by Gambia College. In 2022/2023 two additional new full-time staff joined the School of Agriculture, who were trained by Dr Daffeh to teach the animal welfare courses (both lecturers are former graduates of the college who successfully completed the Animal Welfare course). From 2021 annual refresher workshops (4 days each) are offered to the lecturers providing different animal welfare topics covering theory and practice. Each year topics from the previous year are deepened and refreshed as well as new relevant topics added. From 2021 ten lecturers from Gambia College were repeatedly trained (and new lecturers who joined were added), in addition three lecturers from UTG and four lecturers from selected schools also benefited from the training.  

Inadequate access to practical training in animal health and welfare was one of the key challenges at the School of Agriculture Gambia College, mainly due to transportation issues. Therefore, Gambia College School of Agriculture has set up a small ruminant farm with 10 goats and 10 sheep at the College premises to ensure a self-sustaining farm on campus where students would have the opportunity for regular quality practical classes at low cost without the burden of weekly transportation cost.