My name is Sainey Loom. I study development studies. I grew up in an extended family with 12 brothers and 5 sisters in a small farming village called Toroba at the North bank . There is no electricity in village but solar power in one building. We have a borr hole and local pump for water supply. I would like to work together with two of my brothers: one studies agriforrestry and the other one owns land. Together wewill have a business in village and open garden for community service. We will grow vegetables in rainy season and work with preservation. We will sell to the community and educate people in farming. This will be my contribution to take away poverty from the area and to eradication of human poverty.
Spring semester 2017
Presentation was a big challenge but now am getting use to it little by little, learning from Less Brown, making my move before I am ready
Fall semester 2017
I have passed all my seminars (tests) so far and I got an outstanding result in my Physiology mid term exam
Bachelor of development studies January 2018
14 december 2018
I was able to secure an internship position from United Purpose formerly Concern Universal, an NGO company operating in the Gambia and other countries around the world. The internship period is six months, and I have already gone a month now.
My family is coping well, currently on the harvesting period of the past rainy season. I do visit whenever am opportune to, most often on the heat period of farming activities, to give an extra human resource so as to ease work load, was there few days during the harvesting of the groundnut and pearl millet, which are the two most grown crop in my community.
My current desire is to be on the contemporary issues for now, for exposure and experience, so that will be able to strike a balance between concepts learned and its practicality in the real world. I will be scouting for opportunities too, to work on masters degree program and possibly PHD on development related courses.
Report March 2019
2022
I have been on a mandatory two-year internship at the main teaching hospital before I could qualify to hold a licenceto practiseon my own.
I live with my mother, father and 6 siblings. My father was the sole breadwinner of the family however since graduation last year I’ve also helped finance some family needs.
April 2022
Am currently living with my family as my office is in Kerewan which is 8km from my village. Agriculture is the main source of livelihood of my family thus we working on establishing a mixed farm were we will have horticulture, vegetable, poultry and animal husbandry. I was employed as intern few months before the graduation at United Purpose (an international NGO operating countrywide to reduce poverty). I spent a year and some months there. I applied for a position at the NGO Affairs Agency office and was lucky to receive an offer. NGO Affairs Agency is the Government body responsible for registering, monitoring NGOs operations in the Gambia. It’s the administrative link between Government and NGOs. I was first posted in the Central River Region and spent a year there. Now am deploy to North Bank Region my birth Region. I am the Regional Program Officer.