A Papa Faal administration will establish healthy lifestyle education programs for youths that will include those that will help end unsafe sex among youths.
Former president Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara’s grandson Faal has announced he will run for president next year.
And if he should succeed in residing at No. 1 Marina Parade, Faal will introduce programs that will promote healthy lifestyles among the country’s youths, a manifesto seen by The Fatu Network revealed.
The Team 2021 government says it shall ensure a greater part of its focus be on developing both the physical and mental capacity of Gambian youths.
In the area of healthy lifstyle, the team said it will ‘establish the Healthy-Lifestyle Education Programs (HEPY) to promote a healthy lifestyle for the youth and ensure a campaign of zero tolerance to drugs and alcohol, and discourage unsafe sex through abstinence’.
According to the document, despite constituting over 60 percent of Gambia’s population, the plight of the younger generation has never been dire.
