NACCUG disburses over D1.5M mini grant fund to support youths

The Mini Grants Scheme Officer of the Association National of Cooperative Credit Union of the Gambia (NACCUG), Mr Saikou Touray has said his office has disbursed about one million, five hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one dalasi, eighty bututs (D1, 522, 781. 80) to support the beneficiaries in the country. 

The purpose of the mini grant fund is to enhance employability of youths in the Gambia, create more youth friendly enterprises thus curbing the menace of irregular migration while encouraging youth take leadership roles in the credit union movement.

Since the inception of the Scheme, Mr. Touray said, NACCUG has been entrusted with its management by the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) to support young Gambians in creating prospective enterprises as well as up-scaling the micro medium, and small scale existing businesses. As at end of April 30^th 2018, 32 young Gambians out of the 234 applications received nationwide has been awarded grants either to start a new business or improve their existing business.

GYIN Gambia Chapter inks one year MoU with Kerr Fatou

Mamadou Edrisa Njie & Fatou Jallow signing the MoU

Churchill’s Town- 06^th September, 2018: As part of its efforts to intensify its visibility for a wider coverage, the Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) on Monday, 3rd September 2018 signed a year-long Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kerr Fatou..

The MoU signing, which took place at the GYIN-Gambia Secretariat in Churchill’s Town at the Youth Entrepreneurship Plaza, seeks to create a collaborative partnership to reinforce both institutions’ objectives in complementing each other’s efforts in providing publicity to expose the good work and initiatives of young Gambian entrepreneurs’ on Kerr Fatou TV and other platforms.

Signing on behalf of GYIN Gambia, Mamadou Edrisa Njie, the GYIN Gambia chapter, Executive Director recalled that a recommendation was made by the Nema-Chosso Project Steering Committee (PSC) in 2017 in Jenoi, LRR that the youth network should be supported by Nema-Chosso and other agricultural projects in the country to profile the success stories of young entrepreneurs’ particularly those in the agricultural sector.