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ELIT summer
camp on a field visit at Ever Green
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Churchill’s Town, June 20, 2019 -- The 4th
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.
“ELIT 2019 will building on the summer camp’s culture of
creating equal opportunities for young men and women in The Gambia,” GYIN Gambia
Executive Director, Mamadou Edrisa Njie, said.
“Previous events have impacted greatly by changing the
livelihoods of young people especially those in the rural areas. It has enabled
some of them to become job creators.”
This year’s ELIT is looking into the production of small
ruminants, poultry, horticulture, rice value chain, and agro-marketing. Applicants
must have an interest in these areas and those yet benefit from the ELIT training
will be given priority.
“GYIN Gambia plans to award the ten “Best ELIT 2019
Participants” with prizes of D15, 000 in order to help them start their own
businesses or scaled up their existing enterprises,” Mr. Njie said on Thursday.
He said such support is expected to help create more jobs
for the youths especially for those in the rural areas.
More than two hundred thousand Gambians are unemployed, a
six percent rise from the 2012 unemployment figures of 29.2 percent of the
population, according to The Gambia Labour Force Survey (GLFS 2018).
Youth unemployment remains high, at 41.5 per cent, and its
proportion to population ratio in the urban areas is 54.7 per cent and in the
rural areas is 45.3 per cent.
It is also intended to discourage young Gambians from
embarking on irregular migration – journey across dangerous deserts and high
seas; to help reduce the gender gap in the labour market; and to curb the rural
urban drift.
Participants at the annual GYIN Gambia youth summer camp
are exposed to knowledge and skills on four thematic areas:
Entrepreneurship: Start-up
venture, improve on your fledgling small businesses and hands-on business plan
designing.
Leadership: Being a
good leader, learn to lead even from the bottom of your organisational or
community structure, and be inspired by success stories and experiences.
Information Technology: Bridging
the digital divide, digital inclusion, hands on experience using digital
devices, useful internet and digital security tips, and build your social media
market presence.
Field Visits: Exposes
participants to successful and inspiring business firms, agriculture and
agribusiness initiatives.
Success Stories
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Sainabou Ngack, Poultry Farm, Pakau Njogu,
North Bank Region (NBR) https://gyingambia.gm/young-female-elit-alumni-establishes-poultry-farm/
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Ahmad M. Ceesay, Proprietor of Keneba Tech in
Sukuta, West Coast Region (WCR) https://gyingambia.gm/celebrating-an-uprising-young-entrepreneur/
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Modou Lamin Sanyang, Cashew Farmer cum Poultry
Producer, proprietor of ML Business Venture in Foni Bulock Village, West Coast
Region (WCR) https://gyingambia.gm/elit-alumni-turns-champion-cashew-farmer/
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Jabou Mbye, Sheep Fattening, Jimbala Kerr
Chendu, Central River Region North (CRR North) https://gyingambia.gm/testimony-young-lady-in-sheep-fattening-business/
For any enquiries,
contact:
Mr. Mamadou Edrisa Njie,
GYIN Gambia National Coordinator
+220 3938929
Mr. Modou S. Joof,
GYIN-Gambia Secretary General
+220 2122784
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