BYC Launches Vacation Jobs for students

    Bassa Youth Caucus President, Matthew Z. Bryant

Buchanan, Liberia August 2013

From a resolution that was resolved during the sixth Sitting of the Grand Bassa County resolution towards empowering youths in the county, the Bassa Youth Caucus through the Grand Bassa County Authority has embarked on a two month vacation job for youth and students in the county.

With over two hundred and twenty five needed students and youths benefitting from the project, according to the Project Coordinator, they have been recruited from the five statutory Districts of the county.

The project which is been funded through the Grand Bassa County Development Fund for the period of two months will positively impact the lives of young people with basic Community Services, Sanitation and Waste Management skills that will enable students to develop knowledge in safe hygiene and environmental health awareness.

At the end of the two months in Sanitation and Waste management, the Project Coordinator, McDelvin Ponnie disclosed that students who will be evaluated on job well done are expected to undertake recruitment into a cadet training program and placed into various offices in order to build their capacities in additional life skills.

Furthering that with the total Cost of the project totaling thirty thousand sixty-three United States Dollars ($30,063.00 USD), he noted that with this amount it will be used for the purchasing of materials and payment of students who work on the job.

At the same time, the Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Matthew Z. Bryant who is also the President of the Bassa Youth Caucus (BYC), being very impressed, commended the Grand Bassa County Authority for what he terms as being farsighted in fostering the developing of youths in county.

The Bassa youth Caucus is the accumulation of youth groupings in the county, since its establishment in 2008, this has been the largest project undertaken by the institution through the instrumentality of the current President Matthew Z. Bryant and the Secretary General, McDelvin Ponnie who serves as Coordinator of the project.