His Excellency President Adama Barrow last Friday launched the Ministry of Youth and Sports' Youth Revolving Fund Scheme with an amount of 20 million dalasis as a start-up reserved funds.
The initiatives are jointly managed by the National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) of the Youth Ministry and Social Development Fund (SDF), under the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.
NEDI is responsible for the training of young people on entrepreneurship and business management, whilst SDF which has a comparative advantage on credit facility management handles the loan disbursement and payment.
The Fund was launched by the president at the ‘Banjul meet the people’s tour’ meeting marked by the presentation of cheques of different amounts to eight initial beneficiaries totalling 2.9 million dalasis.
