The Daily Observer (Banjul)
Mam Ndegene Secka and Fatoumata Mbenga
30 October 2009
Banjul — The National Youths Council (NYC), recently started a Life Skills training for youth clubs in The Upper River Region (URR) and the Kanifing Municipality (KM).
In an interview with the Daily Observer, Marchel Mendy, the executive secretary, National Youth Council, said that young people should be equipped with skills that would enable them to cope with any risky situation they might encounter in or outside the school. According to him, life skills are abilities, which help a person to adapt and to behave positively so that he or she can deal effectively with the challenges of everyday life.
He also said that there is increasing consensus about the need to equip young people with life skills in an age where AIDS has become a serious threat to humanity. Noting, studies have shown that sex and AIDS education may lead to a delay in the onset of sexual activity, and to the use of safer sex practices among young people who are sexually active.
Mendy further disclosed that the first phase of the training will be conducted for five-days and two-youth clubs will be train at the same time by different resource persons. ?The second phase of the training will also be targeting two-youth clubs in Upper River Region, each with 20 participants and the third phase will be other youth clubs in Kanifing Municipality,? he concluded.
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