GYIN Gambia ELIT 2019 Summer Camp to Hold on July 21 in Basse

ELIT summer camp on a field visit at Ever Green  

Churchill’s Town, June 20, 2019 -- The 4^th edition of the National Youth Summer Camp on Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Information Technology (ELIT) will be held in Basse, Upper River Region (URR) from 21 – 31 July, 2019.

This year’s 10-day youth camp will allow young people to acquire relevant knowledge and skills to start and successfully manage an enterprise or business ventures, the organizer, GYIN Gambia said in a statement on Thursday.

It is to be held under the theme ‘Transforming youth into agents of change in agribusiness ventures’. Sixty (60) participants selected from across the six Agricultural Directorates in The Gambia are to take part in the camp.

Young Agripreneur Calls for Support to Expand Production

By Ida L.B Ceesay

Meet Alagie Karamo Jammeh of Busumbala Village, West Coast Region and the owner of a vegetable garden called Steel Innovation Farmyard.

The 24year old produces’ onions, carrots, cucumbers, lettuces, peppers etc for sale.

Jammeh, whose main objective is providing healthy organic fruits and vegetables to the populace, started his business over six years ago.

Presently, he has some readily harvested onions for the market which he sells locally at a reasonable price.

RURAL YOUTH AWARDS 2019: GYIN Gambia receives over 200 applicants for 10 awards categories’

By Mamadou Edrisa Njie

Chairperson, Mr. Sarjo Jarju

As the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia chapter’s planned 3rd Edition of the Rural Youth Awards 2019 drew closer, the National Organizing Committee (NOC) have received about two hundred and five (205) applicants across the length and breadth of the country competing for the 10 awards categories’.

The much anticipated event is scheduled to be held from 25^th to 27^th April 2019 at the WASDA centre in Wuli West District, Upper River Region of the Gambia.

In an interview with, Mr. Sarjo Jarju, Chairperson of the 3^rd Edition of the Rural Youth Awards 2019, National Organising Committee, confirmed that two hundred and five (205) applications were successfully submitted for this year’s Rural Youth Awards 2019.

He say “on 10^th March 2019 was the deadline for the submission of applications in which 10 youth are targeted to be awarded with thirty-five thousand dalasis (D35,000.00) for each award winner,” says the NOC Chairperson, Mr Sarjo Jarju shortly after returning from a massive countrywide collection of filled application forms that were distributed earlier.
The Rural Youth Awards 2019 aims to identify, promote and elevate successful young men and women’s creativities, energies and passion geared to develop their communities and societies.

Stakeholders Dilate on GYIN Gambia Rural Youth Awards

Mariama Krubally

By: Kebba AF Touray
Stakeholders in youth empowerment spheres in Basse, have spoken extensively on the significance of the forthcoming Rural Youth Awards 2019, to be organize by the Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter dubbed GYIN Gambia Chapter.

This year's event is scheduled to take place in Wuli West, Upper River Region (URR) from the 25^th – 27^th April, 2019.

The award aims to support youth in their entrepreneurial and agricultural endeavours, so as to engage them in meaningful ventures.

Speaking in an interview, Mr. Kebba Sillah, Director of Wuli and Sandu Development Association(WASDA), said the award will broaden the financial resource base of the beneficiaries, as well impact positively on the entrepreneurial aspirations of the awardees and by extension encourage others to double their efforts to also benefit from the award.

P2RS training aims to bolster youth and women on advance helpful knowledge, says Mrs. Tamba

Olimatou S. Tamba Asst. BDONema/P2RS Training

The Assistant Business Development Officer of the Building Resilience against Food Insecurity in the Sahel (P2RS) project, Madam Olimatou S. Tamba has said that their trainings are designed to upgrade effective knowledge and skills on business development in rural regions.

She was speaking at the official opening ceremony of a 4-day training programme held from 14 to 17 November 2016 at the Microfinance centre in Brikamaba, Central River Region, for rural women and youth on business and income generating methods. 

The overall goal of this training, according to her, is to raise effective knowledge and skills on rural women and youth to become self reliant at the end of the training.

“One of the key activities of the training will focus on guideline on writing business plans thus the training has been designed to be practical with exercises to provide skills”, Tamba noted.

Training for women, youth on income generating activities starts

High table and participants

The Building Resilience against Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel’ (P2RS) project, a component managed by the National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project, popularly know as (Nema), is embarking on a four-day training designed to enhance the skills of women and youth on business planning and management of income generating activities.

The training will run from the 31^st October to 3^rd November, 2016 at the regional education directorate in Basse, Upper River Region, is financed by African Development Bank (AfDB).

Speaking on the occasion, Ousman M. Colley,  regional agricultural director, Central River Region south, said the alarm bell is ringing for women and youth to develop bankable business plans so as to access funding, particularly the agricultural matching grants available within projects in the country.

“We have millions in the coffers of the agricultural projects because we cannot develop bankable business plans, the grants are not moving,” he said emphatically.