Child Youth Support and Rural Development Agency

Child Youth Support and Rural Development Agency, (TANGO), focuses on child/youth support and rural development, including basic education for children and skills training for all.

It also works on health and family planning projects. It supports horticultural development projects and adoption of improved farming techniques, programs to arrest soil degradation and deforestation and to implementation of ecological intervention systems

Youth Empowerment Network, Parklands, South Africa

Youth Empowerment Network work creatively with young disadvantaged and unemployed South Africans, to overcome inner oppression, and develop self-confidence, lifeskills, and leadership qualities, as the bridge to a productive life.

The mission of the Youth Empowerment Network is to empower out of school and out of work youth that are at risk in South Africa. Particularly from the disadvantaged areas, the combination of an inadequate education, depressed socio-economic circumstances and low employment prospects, make young people vulnerable to temptations such as crime and drugs.

The youth Empowerment Network aims to achieve this by providing bridging programmes that will prepare participants to enter proactively into life and work, and by motivating participants to take charge the participants to take charge of their lives and in particular take their next steps towards creatively securing their economic independence.

National Youth Council – Gambia

National Youth Council – Gambia Apart from co-ordinating, planning, programming, monitoring and evaluating all youth programmes, projects and activities, the National Youth Council (NYC) as an independent autonomous body is also mandated by an act of the National Assembly to advise Government on all youth matters in The Gambia.

Young Men’s Christian Association

Young Men’s Christian Association The YMCA is a worldwide fellowship based on the equal value of all persons.

It initiates and maintains a number of projects within the community and provides accommodation to members in a Youth Hostel.

Gambia Youth Federation

Gambia Youth Federation, (TANGO), undertakes to support the socio-economic development of young men and women, to assist communities to achieve self-sufficiency through self-help and to assist in improving the equality of life in rural communities

Gambia Rural Development Agency – GARDA

Gambia Rural Development Agency – GARDA, (TANGO), exists to improve the socio-economic well-being of rural Gambians in Lower River Division, North Bank Division, Central River Division, particularly the poorest households and most disadvantaged groups, namely women and children.

The agency aims to improve agricultural production through seed store construction, farmer training and reforestation and to establish a variety of income generation projects for the rural population.

They give special attention the education of youth.