Mr. Bakary T. Barrow is a young male student who has successfully completed a senior secondary school with very good marks.
Mr. Barrow is from Jifarong village in the Kiang West of the Lower River Region and completed his secondary education at the Kotu Senior Secondary school.
Mr. Barrow is now enrolled at the Nusrat Management and Accountancy Training Center but lack of funds has stopped him from proceeding with his course.
This young ambitious man is appealing to you to give a helping hand to settle his fees so that he can undergo his life ambition.
Anyone wishing to help Mr. Barrow can contact him through these following numbers: 9954533/ 6224408 or call the FOROYAA at 4393177.

A School girl has been admitted to Masroor Senior Secondary School after passing her basic education certificate examination. However she still cannot go to school because she is yet to pay the fees. The parents cannot afford the fee of more than D6000. Her father is unemployed and her mother’s earnings from selling fruits in the street are scarely enough for the family to live from hand to mouth.
Any Good Samaritan who wishes to assist may call 9834076 for further details.

He has been sent away from school a week ago and has been roaming about to find sponsorship. A letter was written to Manager GALP, the owner of Banjul pharmacy among others for assistance to pay for his last phase in Senior Secondary School . Instead of going for his lessons, every morning, he comes to the Foroyaa office to receive notes to take to prospective good Samaritans.

By Mamadou Dem

The University of the Gambia Debating Association on Wednesday 6 May 2009 organized a debating competition at the Headquarters of the Gambia Organization of the Visually Impaired (GOVI) in Kanifing South, on the topic, “Global Financial Crisis is the problem of the West and not Africa?”

In the Gambian context, the young people are seen basically as subordinate and irrelevant and so their views on issues affecting their lives are not considered necessary or important in decision-making. This may be said to derive from the socio-cultural environment which tends to stifle the self-expression of the child.

Mobile phones are a fashion but are a big concern to many people today. Youths of today are treating mobile phones as bona fide property. Recently, an 18 year old teenage girl was given a mobile phone by her boy friend. The 18 years old girl lives with a very strict father who never allows her to go out nor to receive a phone call.

Girls look more like high-priced commodities as dowry becomes increasingly a means of escaping a rapidly declining economy. When people are in the midst of hunger, as we have been experiencing in this country for the past years, they will do anything to survive. Parents now demand “absurd” sums of money and other commodities from there in-laws. It is not surprising that many parents see the bride-price as one way of making ends meet. The dowry, a cultural practice, is now a social problem that needs to be seen from an economic point of view, that is, the girl child being used to generate income.

By Abdou Kabir Daffeh
Nusrat Press
This column, entitled the Student’s Column has confined itself to contributing toward the development of Gambian Student’s.
As the exams have just commenced, this reporter has taken the responsibility to seek the opinion of student’s about exams.
This reporter visited many schools and had spoken with many who all expressed their optimism about the exams and the believe that it will be free of any mal-practice. Talking to students of Gambia Senior Secondary School as they finished their Islamic paper, they told this reporter that the paper is fair. However, they admitted “only section B served as a threat to us, but we are hopeful that Allah will help us to overcome it.” They expressed their confidence that the results will be positive.

By Sulayman Bah
The Nustrat Commerce Students are once again crowned champions in the 2008 Inter-class Football Competition as they maintained their reign, after the replayed final against 12 Art (noon).