Kombo East District Youth and Children Development Association (KEYCDA), the umbrella body mandated to supervise all the youth and children activities and programs in Kombo East, ended, last Thursday, a two-day capacity building workshop on resource mobilisation and management for its executive members.  

Held at Kuloro Village, Kombo East, the two-day workshop aims at enhancing the capacity of young people to mobilise and raise their own funds for sustainability. It was also geared towards enabling the young people to develop their own project proposals for funding.

In his keynote address, Lamin Darboe, co-ordinator of KEYCDA urged youths to work extra hard towards the attainment of their aims and objectives. He noted that the workshop would enable them to carry out their responsibilities in the service of the district as well as to capacitise them on raising their own funds.

Mr Darboe further emphasised that Kombo East youths should be ready to take-up any challenges that might arise during the development process. He thanked Kaira Nyining Federation, their main funding partner for their pragmatic stands in empowering the youths.

Lamin Bojang, secretary of Kombo East District Sports association challenged youth to transform the information gained from the workshop into action. He stressed that KEYCDA executive must work towards satisfying the needs of the people of the district so as for them to understand that the association does not belong to only its executives.

While dilating on a topic centred on project proposal writing and funding, Mr Ebrima Sanyang, co-ordinator of Kaira Nyining, CCF program area manager in Kombo east. He urged youth to be focused and not to rely on exclusively Kaira Nyining as their funding partner. He added that they should as well diversify their activities in implementing their skills. Mr Sanyang further reminded the youth to develop good moral.

Other presenters included Lamin J Gassama, chairperson of Western Region Youth Committee who delivered a topic on Strategic Work Plan from June 2008-2010. Abdoulie Badjie from the National Association of Co-operative Credit Union of Gambia (NACCUG), who also spoke on the topic centred techniques and strategies of resource mobilisation and management all commended the youths for their pragmatic and visionary stand in the district.