After Guinea Conakry, "ONE SUN FOR ALL," lands in The Gambia.
With the new president, Adama Barrow, there is finally a different air of confidence in the country.
Despite this, however, young people, following in the footsteps of the recent past, continue to leave to arrive clandestinely as far as what they believe could be their "promised land," Europe.
UNHCR data in hand, between 2016 and 2017 inclusive some 19,000 Gambians, mostly aged between 18 and 26, set foot on the Old World, out of a total population of 1.8 million.
In June 2018, with the support of the Gambian government and the National Youth Parliament - The Gambia, Fausto Conter, General & Project Manager, launched an awareness campaign.
He visited two secondary schools, Gambia Senior Secondary School and Essau Senior Secondary School, to educate students about the dangers of migration travel and the bureaucratic complexities they would encounter upon arriving in Italy.
The information campaign, which will continue in September when schools reopen, is only the first step. Then more is needed to ensure that these young people do not leave their country in search of something they are unlikely to find.
It needs a state apparatus and organizations operating on the ground that implement the level of training and encourage the creation of new small and large businesses that will bring jobs.
"ONE SUN FOR ALL" is contributing to the first step and already looking at the second through contacts with YEP (The Gambia Youth Empowerment Project), a European Union program/project in The Gambia for training and job creation for potential migrants.
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