Kaddijatou
Jabbie, the independent candidate for Basse constituency, has said youths and
women motivated her to run for office in the National Assembly, where the
country’s laws are made.
The
28-year-old is a senior Community Development Assistant working for the
department of Community Development, and a graduate of Management Development
Institute with a Diploma in microfinance and a national certificate in
integrated rural development.
Ms
Jabbie said she is passionate about youth and women’s empowerment towards
sustainable socio-economic development, which was why she is running for office
in the National Assembly to fight for the rights of youths and women.
She
has been representing poor rural youths and women at the grassroots level,
through organising forums to discuss issues and chat on possible solutions.
She has been representing the voiceless in
national matters across the country, and sometime last year she travelled to
Accra, Ghana, where she represented the youths.
Over
the years, Jabbie have extensively promoted youth participation in politics,
and equal opportunity in employment, among others.
She
said as a youth activist, she would advocate for the advancement of women and
youths of rural Gambia, because she is from the rural areas and has been living
among them for the most part of her life.
She
knows all the issues affecting the poor rural Gambians, as a Community
Development Assistant, and has trained hundreds of women on skills acquisition
like local soap and Omo making, tie and dye and batik.
They
have helped women regain farmland and have ownership over land for farming,
since women are not given rights over land in many parts of Africa, including
in The Gambia, even though they are the majority of farmers.
