IN THE SPOTLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD - ALIEU BADOU JENG

Alieu Badou Jeng is a first year Computer science student of the University of the Gambia;

Alieu has over 7 years of experience in Local Government Administration. Currently, Alieu is the Communications Officer of the Gambia Association of Local Government Authorities (GALGA) where he focuses on support network GALGA with international Organisations of a similar vision as well as Provide media houses with information about GALGA he also double as the Operations Officer of GALGA. GALGAs main aim is to promote the Development of Local Government Administration in the Gambia. Working with Local Government Authorities (Area Councils) Alieu managed to gather additional knowledge and experience in Ghana and Zimbabwe. Recently Alieu is deployed to one of the Local Government Authorities called Brikama Area Council to add capacity in their IT department.

Alieu is Motivated and Committed to community development and serving communities to bring about development is of great interest to him. Upon completion of the YALI RCL West Africa Program, Alieu intends to translated the abstract ideologies into reality in order to make an ideal leadership in his community, his country, Africa and the world at large.

His undying desire and need to be a part of the first generation of young, progressive and patriotic African sons that will endeavor to set forth our continent's development blueprints. Our most talented youth tend to focus more on other sectors of our economies due to the negative image given to our public sector (for reasons such as corruption mostly) and this tends to ward off a good number of visionary young minds from venturing into public office.

My hobbies are: going to the gym, researching, reading about sci-fi articles, watching science fiction movies