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| BAJ Coordinator, Abdou Rahman Sallah (Photo: Mansa Banko) |
The national coordinator of Biodiversity
Action Journalists (BAJ Gambia), Abdou Rahman Sallah, left for Kenya on January
25 to take part in a two weeks training on Climate Change.
Mr Sallah, an environmental journalist,
selected from a pool of applicants by the organisers, the Kenya-based Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) to
partake in the January
28–February 14 climate change course.
The two weeks intensive course is facilitate
by myclimate, a Swiss non-profit foundation together with ACTIS, a spin-off
organisation of ETH Zürich, in cooperation with UNEP, and the Alliance for
Global Sustainability (AGS) – an environmental research partnership between the
ETH Zürich, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of
Tokyo (UT) and the Chalmers Technical University in Göteborg, Sweden.
“I am happy that I am going to represent my country
and Gambian youths and I assure you that I will endeavour to leave up to
expectation,” says Sallah, who works at The
Point newspaper.
“I will [do]
my best to ensure that whatever [I] learned will [be] implemented to the
fullest upon my return,” added Mr Sallah, who commended his newspaper, IFAD
funded projects in The Gambia and his colleagues at BAJ for their support in
the campaign to protect the environment.
YES courses have been operated since 2000 in
different parts of the world with the goal to bring together a diverse group of
motivated future leaders (university graduates, PhD students, young professionals),
the organizers said.
The trainees will learn, discuss and debate on
urgent issues for a sustainable future for humankind, in a global and regional
perspective, they said.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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