With only $15M, GYIN Gambia vows to create 70,000 jobs

Mamadou Edrisa Njie, ED GYIN Gambia 

The GYIN Gambia Executive Director, Mamadou Edrisa Njie has called on development partners and donor agencies to invest a funding package of $15 million in a bid to enable his organization to realize its innovative ideas in creating 70,000 direct and indirect jobs for young people across the country.

To implement these ideas, Mr. Njie noted that his organization is requesting for only this amount and within three years, 70,000 jobs will be created.

Speaking at the Youth Trade and Agribusiness Forum on the theme “Youth Employment in Agriculture and Tourism as a solid solution to ending Food Insecurity and Unemployment in The Gambia” at the ongoing National Youth Agribusiness and Tourism Expo 2018, organized by the Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce (GYCC) at the Independence Stadium in Bakau, he assured that GYIN Gambia is ever ready to refund the money in full to any donor or development partner, if the project fails.

Jainaba Saine’s Foundation poised to support people with disability

Founder Jainaba Saine

A Gambian-based charitable foundation, Jainaba Saine’s Charity for Disable (JSCD) is out to give a helping hand to the vulnerable people especially those living with disability with educational materials, wheel chairs and among a host of other valuables.

The foundation, which is scheduled to be launch in January 2019, is initiated by a Gambian based in Holland by the name Jainaba Saine to change vulnerable lives.

 “We want to enable all children and disabled persons to reach their optimum potential so that maximal function is achieved, deformity prevented or reduced and the effect of disability minimized so that they may overcome many of the barriers that they and their families face,” says the founder.