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. 

“However, the recommendation has still not been implemented and therefore, having Kerr Fatou as a partner will now help us to easily implement those recommendation,” he said.

GYIN Gambia Executive Director went further to call on the agricultural projects and its partners to support this initiative, saying the publicity will expose young Gambian entrepreneurs’.

“This MoU is timely; because we’ve lot of young entrepreneurs who are doing extremely good in the country but are not exposed or have the opportunity to be featured on any platform,” Njie asserted.

This, according to him, has made it difficult for some of them to compete internationally due to lack of online links that they can share in any international competition and platform(s).

The MoU will benefit the young people simply in sharing their success stories; challenges and recommendations with the wider world will put them in the national regional and international scene.

He added: “We’ve lot of successful rural young entrepreneurs’ but their stories are not shared thus having Kerr Fatou onboard, we are now hopeful that Gambian stories will be known and seen in a positive way.”

Kerr Fatou’s Communications Officer, Ms. Fatou Jallow signed the MoU on behalf of Kerr Fatou. Madam Jallow expressed happiness after appending her signature, noting that it is good that Kerr Fatou and GYIN Gambia chapter entered into an agreement.

She continued: “We’ve been following your initiatives and we deem it necessary to have a partnership so that you can provide us with the contacts of these youth.”

As an independent media outlet, she assured that Kerr Fatou will report accurate and balance stories that will inspire its followers especially the young ones.

Moreover, it is agreed in the MoU that this partnership shall be in force for a period of one year and is subject to review and renewal.