Rural Youth Award Winner receives G/nut Cracking Machine

Burama Dampha, the winner of GYIN Gambia’s Rural Youth Award category of Best Processing and Value Addition Business of the Year 2019, on Tuesday, 16th July, 2019 was handed over a Groundnut Cracking Machine, as first disbursement from his award cash prize. Presented by the Business Development Officer of the Building Resilience for Food and […]

“GYIN Gambia Transforms My Life”- 28-year-old Gardener

Mr. Assan Sanyang, a 28-year-old Gambian and a gardener by profession in Abuko in the Kanifing Municipality, is one of the Alumni of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Information and Technology (ELIT) 2017 {summer camp} beneficiaries, which was held from 24 July to 1 August 2017 at Jenoi Agricultural Rural Farmers’ Training Centre in Jarra Jenoi, Lower River […]

GYIN Gambia welcomes second batch of GLEN Interns

The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia Chapter on Monday, 15th July, 2019, welcomed the second batch of interns from the Global Education Network of Young Europeans (GLEN). This initiative which began last year, is part of GYIN Gambia’s efforts in global partnership in the fields of youth development. GLEN interns mainly students and young […]

GYINers Set To Commemorate World Entrepreneurs’ Day

Preparations are ongoing at the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia Chapter to commemorate the World Entrepreneurs’ Day (WED) on the 21st August, 2019 in grand style. The World Entrepreneurs’ Day is a day set aside to create awareness for entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership throughout the Gambia. “World Entrepreneurs’ Day is the perfect day to celebrate […]

Matching Grant Beneficiaries Praise Nema Project

The beneficiaries of the Matching Grant Facility, which is being provided by the National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project (Nema) have expressed heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the Benefactor for supporting their various youth groups with processing and pressing machines. Last month on 21st June, 2019, fourteen youth groups across the length and breadth […]

Young Entrepreneur Award Winner Expands Her Poultry Farm

Ms. Agie Isatou Gaye, is the winner of ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ of the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia’s Rural Youth Awards 2019. Ms Gaye is the Proprietress of Dundugee Poultry Farm situated in her native town of Sukuta, West Coast Region (WCR). She won this award category during the Rural Youth Awards which was held on […]

Rural Youth Awards Winner Gets Boat as First Disbursement

Ms Marie Sambou, an Oyster Farmer and the Winner of GYIN Gambia’s ‘Young Business Innovation of the Year 2019’ Award has used her first disbursement of the award prize to construct a fiber boat for her Oyster farming. After receiving her first payment in May, she bought timber wood, bags of white cement, nails, sheets […]

P2RS Supported Rural Youth Award Winner makes profit of D15K

Lamin Kinteh, the Winner of GYIN Gambia’s Rural Youth Awards ‘Best Service Provider of Agro-Products of the Year 2019’, has made a profit of fifteen thousand dalasis (D15,000.00) barely a month of receiving his first disbursement of D25,000.00 worth of Agricultural Inputs. Kinteh, a native of Kerewan in the North Bank Region, received his items […]

P2RS Supported Award Winner receives his first disbursement

Muhammed S. Juwara, a Poultry Farmer from Bora Kanda Kasse in the Upper River Region and winner of GYIN Gambia’s Rural Youth Awards 2019 on Best Emerging Business of the Year 2019 on Tuesday, 25th June, 2019 received his first disbursement. The rural youth awards categories were fully funded by the Building Resilience for Food and […]

Subject of Mockery turns to Source of Inspiration

Ms. Amie Colley, a young entrepreneur from Somita Village, West Coast Region (WCR) has told Mansa Banko Online that market vendors, especially women in her community, used to make mockery of her for being an educated young woman and at the same time competing with them at the market as a vegetable vendor. But today, […]