ELIT Alumni encourages use of organic products
Ms Fatima Gaye, an alumni of GYIN Gambia’s Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Information and Technology (ELIT2018) National Youth Summer Camp has called on the young farmers to adapt to the use of organic products in their farms and graduate from chemical usage. Ms Gaye, who is also an agriculturist and a graduate of The Gambia Songhai Initiative, […]
BKYDA To Stage 4th Annual Tree Planting Exercise
A Foni-based Community Association, the Bulock Kapongha Youth Development Association (BKYDA) has disclosed plans to organize its fourth (4th) edition Annual Tree Planting Exercise on 31st August, 2019. The tree planting exercise, which will be held at the Foni Bulock Community Forest in West Coast Region (WCR), is geared towards combating climate change thus improving […]
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 […]