By Ismaila Sonko
President Barrow Youth for National Development (PBYND) hand over seven Pickup Toyota vehicles and fourteen Motor Bikes to its regional offices across the country at West Field Monument Serekunda on Saturday.
The vehicles and motor bikes, according to official is given to PBYND regional offices countrywide for smooth coordination and mobilization of youths towards national development
Kebba Lang Fofana, secretary general of PBYND explained that the vehicles and motor bikes are meant to regional offices to ease their transportation across the country.
He recalled few months ago the developmental unit at the PBYND visited the beneficiary communities for needs assessment so that they would know the developmental gaps that existed in various areas of the country.
Sanusey Taal, Vice President of PBYND said that to support your president is not politics but a moral responsibility which when maintained within acceptable values shall yield greater results towards the maintenance of the public good.
He said PBYND is a civil organization like any other it is officially registered at the Attorney General Chambers.
“Our key objective is to foster social cohesion, national integration and development for all Gambians irrespective of tribe, race, color or political affiliation,” he explained.
Mr. Taal said the mission of the organization is to promote President Barrow’s ideas of a greater society that guarantees freedom, liberty, democracy and sustainable development for all through a comprehensive communal, regional, national and international initiative.
Alkali Conteh, the board chairman of PBYND ,said these vehicles and motor bikes will facilitate the work of the staff in implement 152 projects that PBYND intends to implement of which 62 are already in progress whilst others are finished and handed over to the beneficiaries .
He said the other 80 projects will be will implemented in the second and third phase of the work before 2021 and their areas of intervention includes building of mosques and churches or their renovation, facing of women garden, building public toilets at weekly markets or “lumoos”, milling machines for need rural villagers, digging of bore holes for the communities gardens or at villages etc.
He noted that the aims and objectives of the PBYND, is to foster social cohesion, integration and national development.
“The main reason we believe like we have to foster integration, you look at The Gambia today; it’s kind of divided and no meaningful development can take place if that cream of society is being eroded away,” he claimed.
“To the beneficiaries, to whom much is given, much is expected the challenges you face are not different to those faced by other age old institutions,” he warn.