The Sunrise Centre is a combined skills complex, nursery facility, lower basic school & serves as a community building for meetings & events. It was initially constructed by SOS Children’s Village & given to the Bakoteh community. After the signing of a MOU in 2010 with the Bakoteh Village Development Committee it gave permission for GETS to operate the now re-named Sunrise Centre.
Skills Training:
The facility opened its doors in 2011 as a skills centre for 15 to 18 year old Gambian youths teaching them math, English language, cookery, sewing, tie & dye.
The centre assists students to find work experience in hotels, tailoring workshops and restaurants as well as assisting teachers in their nursery. There are plans to extend their courses to include hairdressing and beauty, Information Technology, woodwork and plumbing.
These courses are targeted at young people who had, for various reasons, not completed their grade 9 schooling. The aim of the training is to give students some basic skills with which to get a job or engage in some kind of self-employment.