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, […]
GYIN International CEO Visits GYIN Gambia Chapter
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) International headquarters based in Washington DC, United States of America, Dr. Amina Sillah who is currently on an official visit to the Gambia, on Wednesday, 26th June, 2019 pay a courtesy call to GYIN Gambia Secretariat in Churchill’s Town. The purpose of her visit […]
Nema Project Delights 14 Youth Groups with Processing Machines
As part of its intervention to support youth and women in agricultural production and productivity, the National Agricultural Land and Water Management Development Project (Nema) on Friday, 21st June, 2019 handed over sixteen (16) rice, cereal and oil pressing processing machines to fourteen (14) youth groups across the country. The presentation of the items was held […]
ELIT 2019 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Information Technology (ELIT2019) 4th Edition National Youth Summer Camp Background Information & Call for Applications Deadline: 15th July, 2019 @16:00hrs The Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Information Technology (ELIT 2019) National Youth Summer Camp will allow young people to acquire relevant knowledge and skills to start and successfully manage an enterprise or business venture. […]
‘FUTURE OF YOUTH LIES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP’
By Tabora Bojang The executive director of the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia chapter, Mamadou Edrisa Njie, has said that considering the depressed state of the formal job market in Africa, it is a good thing that more and more youth in Sub-Saharan Africa are looking to entrepreneurship to secure their future. Njie was […]