Banjul — For the first time ever, students from writing clubs in Senior Secondary Schools will have the opportunity to pen on the forthcoming Inter-School Sports Competition and post it on the Internet along with photographs. This will enhance the outside world to get to know more of this competition, via the Internet.

In addition to writing clubs, pressmen from all newspapers have also been invited to include their own interviews and written commentary on the web site.

"This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for young athletes to be featured for the world to see and also for the event to be better known around the world," stated Ebrahima Mbowe, Executive Director of the Lawrence Morgan Foundation, the body initiating the project. He added that it would help better the journalistic skills of the young writers and for their write-ups to be on the Internet.

According to the brains behind it all, Lawrence Morgan, this is the first of several projects. Morgan, the creator of Myth of Icarus, a world wide poetry exhibition with 5, 000 young writers from 82 countries, which he hopes would be displayed as peace initiative after the Olympic Games have been staged.

"We are also going to place the graduating seniors of the 2004 class of The Gambia on the net," Mbowe revealed. According to him, it is their intention to show the kind of talent young Africans can offer to the rest of the world. "It is going to be difficult as we are doing it on a very small budget but we intend to seek additional funding from interested individuals and foundations," he noted.

For Morgan, it is time the world sit up and take notice of the talents of young Africans.

"I cannot wait to be a part of this wonderful venture," Tapha Ceesay, President of the Tahir Senior Secondary School, adding that it would give young writers of a lifetime.