Economic Growth Senegal Project #43061

Support green incubator for 250 youth in Senegal

by Association Jeunesse Espoir (AJE)

Project Report | Mar 27, 2021
Agriculture: an effective means to reduce poverty

By Fara Ndiaye | Executive Director

Last month in Senegal there were unprecedented situations linked to popular uprisings generalized throughout the national territory. These uprisings, severely repressed by the police, were carried out at 98% by young people who took advantage of a problem between the government and an opponent to go out in the street to express their fed up because of the rate of very high youth unemployment, lack of training for young people and the inability of the Senegalese government to provide concrete solutions to address these problems. These riots caused at least ten deaths among the demonstrators and hundreds of injured among the demonstrators, all of them young.

A return to the lull has made the government aware of the neglect it has had in taking charge of the issue of training, employment and employability of young people in Senegal by announcing again emergency measures to solve these problems of young people.

Association Jeunesse Espoir has understood since the start of its activity the importance of providing sustainable solutions to the employment and employability of young people through its four main areas of intervention which are:
Education
Professional training
Economic integration
The fight against illegal emigration of young people.

And setting up this agricultural incubator, despite fundraising far from the objectives through GlobalGiving, the association was able from its own resources and also the support of other partners, to carry out the agricultural incubation of the first cohort of young people.

Thus in the current context of the country where 65% of the population represents the youth and the rate of lack of training, unemployment and poverty among this segment of the population has reached worrying proportions.

This is the reason why we want this year to increase the number of young people to enroll in the incubator to 100 young people to contribute to the reduction of poverty among young people through training / integration in agriculture.

This is why we once again appeal to the fantastic community of GlobalGiving to kindly support this project in order to transform each life and the uncertain future of hundreds of young people who have hope in this project of the association for clear their way out of poverty.

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Sep 30, 2020
A Courage that deserve to be supported

By Fara Ndiaye | Executive Director

Jun 8, 2020
Shy start of youth green agricultural incubator

By Fara NDIAYE | Executive Director

According to a United Nations expert on the youth issue, agriculture remains the best opportunity for youth for a secure future out of poverty. This is all the more true in this period of global pandemic due to the covid-19 where the economy of the countries of the whole world is completely slowed down, a fortiori that of the African countries.

It is for this reason that Association Jeunesse Espoir de Saint-Louis du Sénégal initiated this agricultural incubator project to both train young people living in vulnerable families and who are out of school in the agricultural trades respecting practices that protect the environment on the one hand, and on the other hand put a financing mechanism within the agricultural incubator which can ensure the economic integration post-incubation of these young vulnerable people.

For the moment, despite the fact that the project has received only one donation of $ 25 out of a shortfall of $ 25,000 from a fantastic donor named Dieyna Knox who believes in our cause to support these young people through agriculture, the association started the bases of the agricultural incubator thanks to its partnership with the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis which gives the association a cultivable area of two hectares to allow the recruitment of 25 young people for a start in order to start training young people in agricultural activities.

This remains a fantastic challenge despite the fact that the means are far from being met; but the motivation of young people, eager to train and give themselves the means to succeed in their lives, encouraged the association to find the basic means to start the agricultural incubator within the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis from Senegal to give these young people the chance to keep the flame of hope for a better future alive.

It is with this in mind that we take advantage of this opportunity offered to us by this first report for globalgiving and donors to launch an appeal to the fantastic community of GlobalGiving to support this project, on which 250 young people from vulnerable families and in a situation of dropout from school to have the opportunity to train and integrate into the agriculture sector through the establishment of this incubator.

As can be seen in the photos in illustration of the volunteers from a European University, more precisely in Belgium, came to support the project by helping to ensure the social follow-up of the first 25 young people enrolled for this project.
We count on the support of the entire GlobalGiving community to help these young people realize their dream of agricultural entrepreneurs.

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