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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