KEYDA summer class ends

Kombo East District Youth and Children Development Association (KEYDA), education sub-committee in partnership with Kaira Nyining  CCF Program Area of  Kombo East  in collaboration with stakeholders  recently concluded a month long summer classes in five centres of the Kombo East Disrict namely Mandinaba, Pirang, Faraba and Jiboroh for upper basic school students.

More than 400 students benefited from this goodwill gesture which aimed at keeping students abreast with their education during the summer holidays.

Speaking at the end of the programme, Lamin Darboe, Coordinator of KEYDA said, it is in fulfillment of the youth and children action plan drawn at the second Kombo East Youth and Children Empowerment Forum in 2006. He said KEYDA wants attainment of relevant, quality and accessible education for all and the classes were designed in such a way that the poor and the vulnerable who mostly suffer from marginalization can benefit from it. “Summer classes used to be centered for children from an economically enriched backgrounds, whose parents are highly learned and financially stable mostly around the Greater Banjul Area,” Darboe said

He then commended stakeholders and Kairo Nyining for their untiring efforts in making education affordable for rural students. He urged other institutions to emulate them.

Kawsu Sanno, a teacher, Fatou Gassama, Chairperson of the Kombo East District Youth Committee, Alasana Jarju and Nfally Jarju all of whom expressed similar sentiments on the programme.