The project, founded by MRC- Holland Foundation in collaboration with the Gambia government through the Ministry of Higher Education, Research Science and Technology is to ensure building the capacities of youth to become self-employed and job creators in the sector.
The event occurred as President Adama Jallow currently embarks on his annual constitutional mandate Meet the People’s Tour.
The center is specified into two components such as the yearly certificate programme and the higher national diploma which lasts for two years.
However, the higher national diploma also has components with one of them meant for those who want to stop at the technician level while the other is for those who want to transit to University to become engineers.
Speaking shortly after laying down the foundation stone, President Barrow noted that the event came prior to a discussion he had with the head of the MRC-Holland foundation, Hendriatta Sonko at State House on the need for development through youth's capacity building.
Barrow said that the youths need to be skilfully trained to ensure that they are independent and self-employed and serve as Job creators in the future.
He stated that they have adopted it as Policy while he urged communities to enroll their kids into the center upon completion.
"Our backbone is agriculture and we want to industrialise it; but we can't do that without youths’ capacity building," he revealed.
MRC-Holland foundation head, Hendriatta Sonko
thanked President Barrow for his foresight, adding that MRC-Holland foundation always emphasises the wish to create Urban -Rural drift.
For his part, Professor Pierre Gomez, the minister of Higher Education Research Science and Technology, said that the ultimate goal of the center is for graduates to gain self employment and create jobs for others.
