The PrAJSi (Youth Empowerment Project of Sinzénou Djanfouè) was officially launched this Thursday, March 31, 2022 at Bringakro in the village of Sinzénou -Djanfouè on the site of the CSRS school farm.

This ceremony took place in the presence of a CSRS delegation headed by the DGA, Dr. Daouda DAO, Profs. Louise ACHI and Jean Baptiste ETTIEN, respectively Director of INFPA of Bingerville and Lecturer at UFHB of Cocody, Mr. Kouamé YANDAKI, Executive Secretary of ADCVI, Mr. Théodore TAH, representative of the CSRS, and Mr. Jean Baptiste ETTIEN. Théodore TAH, representative of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Aries region, representatives of the chiefs of the 9 villages of the "Sinzénou Côte d'Ivoire" association, Mr. César Assiénin, current President of the Sinzénou Djanfouè association, trainers from INFPA and learners. 

Implemented on this station of the CSRS with agropastoral vocation, this project implemented by the centre Suisse and the National Institute of Pastoral and Agricultural Training of Bingerville is financed by the Interjurassian Federation of Cooperation and Development (FICD). PrAJSi aims to provide young learners with theoretical and practical agropastoral training to increase their sustainable livelihoods. 

According to the project presenter, Professor Louise ACHI, this project will allow the youth of Sinzénou to better perceive the fruits of this beautiful friendship that Switzerland has had with the villages of this region for 30 years now and also to appropriate all the research results that come from this station.

In turn, Dr. Daouda DAO, CSRS Assistant General Manager Director , was pleased with this opportunity offered to the young learners and informed them that this training is a restitution of the knowledge acquired by the researchers for a decade on the generous lands of Bringakro. He therefore asked them to take advantage of this project in order to become great agricultural producers according to the Swiss model, actors of the development of their region. Dr. Daouda Dao concluded his speech by expressing the wish to see the rate of women learners increase in the next phases, despite certain difficulties that could be obstacles to their participation in the project. 

The executive secretary of ADCVI, Mr. Kouamé YANDAKI, congratulated the initiators of the project. He then urged the learners not to hesitate, at the end of the project, to request his structure in order to benefit from an accompaniment with the aim of either developing food and vegetable farming, or for the marketing of their agricultural productions. 

This first phase of the project will last two years, with two sessions per year, each with 20 learners. It will involve a total of 80 out-of-school youth from the nine (9) villages of Bringakro. They will be trained by teachers from the INFPA (National Institute of Pastoral and Agricultural Training) of Bingerville. 

It is specified that the Sinzénou Djanfouè association was created in 1996 and is composed of two entities including Sinzénou Switzerland and Sinzénou Ivory Coast. This mutual aid association aims to support development activities in the region in the areas of health, food, education, training, agriculture, crafts, etc..   

To name but a few, the construction and lighting of classrooms, the training of the notability in the management of the village, the acquisition of boreholes and equipment for the village health center, are projects already realized by this Ivorian-Swiss collaboration since 1997. 

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