SIR DAWDA JAWARA FORMER GAMBIAN PRESIDENT DONATED A SUM OF D50,000 TO THE VP AS PART OF HIS GIFT TO REMEDY THE POOR HARVEST OF THE FARMERS

Former Gambian president, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara on Monday gave D50, 000 as his contribution towards the remedial efforts to last year's farming season failure.

     
Presenting the money to the Vice President and Minister of Women's Affairs, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, at State House, Sir Dawda Jawara explained that this was a disaster that struck the Sahel region, as a result of change in climatic condition, which can be unfavorable to crop production.

He therefore noted that we can't leave everything in the hands of government, that institutions and individuals should come forward to assist in this natural disaster to complement government's efforts.
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The Vice President Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy thanked the former president on behalf of President Jammeh, government, the entire Gambian people, the beneficiaries for this laudable gesture.

She added that not everybody can "sacrifice a month's salary" for such a course and therefore thanked Jawara for heeding to the President's call for contribution to a fund that he has set aside to address the situation.


She used the opportunity to inform the former president that government has done an assessment countrywide and has discovered that farmers are already affected as a result of the failure of last year's farming season. The evaluation, VP added has shown that most of the farmers have a very minimal stuff, not enough to feed the family for a year, and that some do not even have anything.

 She said it doesn't only affect human beings but animals as well, particularly livestock, that "the grazing land is becoming smaller and smaller and herdsmen from the neighboring countries also try to graze in our territory just like our herdsmen enter other territories", the Vice President asserted, recalling a similar scenario that happened to the Sahel in the 70's as a result of climate change.