The
National Youth Service Scheme (NYSS) under the Ministry of Youth and Sports
will be graduating its special batch of Corp Members trained under the Gambia
Skill Qualification (GSQ) on rice production level 1, at Sapu, in the Central
River Region on Thursday July 6.
The
training lasted for 6 months.
According
to Adama Beyai, NYSS Public Relations Officer, the graduation ceremony will be
graced by the Hon. Minister for Youth and Sports, Governors, head of
agricultural department in CRR, heads of satellite institutions under the
Ministry of Youth and Sports, NYSS board members, partners and parents of the
graduating youths.
Mr
Beyai revealed that the passing out ceremony will formerly mark the end of
skill training accorded to them during the period.
They
started a new beginning in their life and will be certificated with NYSS
certificates and National Accreditation and Quality Assurance Authority (NAQAA)
certificates, he added.
He
disclosed that during the training, the youth went through an orientation
exercise and were introduced to leadership skill and good practices, lectures
in all skills areas offered including Ecology of the Rice Plant, introduction
to fertilizer, seedbeds selection and preparation, crop guarding, harvesting
and threshing among others.
They
thanked the graduating youth and urged Gambian youth to take responsibility of
their life in their own hands and focus on what is best for them and take the
opportunity available within their surrounding and make best use of it.
Mr
Beyai also informed the general public that NYSS will be embarking on the
mobilisation and recruitment of prospective Corp Members for the 12th Intake
from the 10-18 July 2017.
The
process, which is conducted nationwide is intended to recruit 200 young
Gambians and will end with a recruitment interview slated for 24 July 2017.
Mr
Beyai revealed that the interview will be followed by an orientation exercise,
noting that this time the orientation period will be four weeks instead of the
traditional six weeks.
They
will receive introductory lectures in all skills areas offered including
counseling, sexual and reproductive health, culture and tradition among others.
The
NYSS spokesman hastened to assert that the main purpose of the regular camp
practices and lecture is to instill discipline in the new recruits; strengthen
their social and mental endurance and also to polish their practical, social
and leadership skills before their deployment to the various training
institutions for skill acquisition.
