The President Barrow Youth for National Development (PBYND) donates seven vehicles and fourteen motorbikes to the movement’s regional coordinators yesterday at Westfield Monument

Alkali Conteh, the board chairman of PBYND, said the vehicles and motorbikes would facilitate the work of the movement coordinators in implementing the 152 projects that the movement had earmarked of which 62 were already in progress or finished and had been handed to the beneficiaries.

He said the other 90 projects would be implemented in the second and third phases of the project before 2021 and their areas of intervention included building of mosques and churches or their renovation, fencing of women garden, building public toilets at weekly markets or “lumoos”, milling machines for needy rural villagers, digging of boreholes for community gardens and villages.

“The aims and objectives of the organisation are to foster social cohesion, integration and national development.

“The main reason 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.”

Kebba Lang Fofana, secretary general of the organisation, said some months ago the developmental unit at the President Barrow Youth for National Development (PBYND) made visits to the benefitting areas for a need assessment so that they would know the developmental gaps that existed in various parts of the country.

“The vehicles and motorbikes would be used by the staff of the PBYND regional offices for smooth coordination and mobilization of youths towards national development.”