Maimuna Jabbie

Executive Coordinator and Co-Lead Great Green Wall Frontline

Maimuna is a climate and STEM advocate from The Gambia, a BSc holder in Biology/Information Systems with over six years of experience working in the civil society and private sector. She is the current CoLead Director at Great Green Wall Frontline/Civic, where they are accelerating the African Union initiative to restore 8000km of degraded land and to finance enterprising models with communities to regain meaningful livelihoods in the Sahel. As one of the most well-known environmentalists in The Gambia, she has also been leading the team for Greenup Gambia, a national youth organization championing the battle against deforestation in The Gambia by promoting climate advocacy, tree planting, eco-education, establishment of seedling propagation centers 30 schools and botanical gardens across The Gambia, etc. She has contributed to the protection of the environment and preservation of the ecology for which she won the National Heroes Green Award in March 2022 and she represents The Gambia on international platforms notably at the United Nations Conference of Parties, West Africa Civil Society Institute, Emerging Valley and other platforms. The motives of her work go right to the root of sustainable development, as no country succeeds in any development plan in isolation of sustainable development.

Alfu M. Sarr

Regional Program Officer

Alfu M. Sarr is an award winning Agroforester with more than 15 years experience in sustainable Cashew farming and Bee keeping for honey production and crops pollination. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Information Technology couple with Higher Diploma in sales and marketing management. He inspire, coach and mentor more than 100 youths in the feild of agriculture and entrepreneurship in General. He is currently the General manager of Agrotect, chairperson North Bank Region young entrepreneurs Association, Ambassador at GCCI start up chapter, Youth Mentor on Agribusiness at Africa Youth Entrepreneurship Academy and Regional program officer Green up and Let's Do It Gambia.

Ousainu Colley

Program Officer

Ousainu Colley known to many as OusainuGambia is a young committed youths who have passion for environmental protection and preservation since in his early childhood days. He studied wide range of course that includes Environmental studies to the tertiary institutions. With his commitment and dedication for environmental protection and preservation, he have been awarded by the UNDP in 2018 for his outstanding voluntary services for a clean and clean environment. He equally won the recent youth Excellent of the year Award as a way of recognizing his efforts in environmental protection and preservation. As the Program Officer of GreenUpGambia, he have been responsible in coordinating for the implementation of the activities of the organization.

Ansumana Camara

Program Officer II

By training Ansumana Camara is a forester specializing in Monitoring and Evaluation and also a trained teacher. He holds a National accredited certificate in forestry and wildlife management, High National Diploma in education secondary with a concentration in science and agricultural science and a Bachelor’s degree in Geography with physical geography concentration and Environmental Science minor. Ansumana works at the Department of Forestry of The Gambia under the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources as Assistant M&E officer. He also teach Agroforestry module at the National School of Forestry (Kafuta) and Agriculture and Geography at Senior secondary school on a part-time basis.

Ebrima Jabai

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Ebrima Jabai is an environmentalist who is committed to the protection and development of the country's vulnerable environment. He is the Monitoring & evaluation Officer of Green-up Gambia and has been an instrumental figure in the organization's project implementations. 

Ebrima is also an entrepreneur. He is the General Manager of Royal Poultry Farm, a youth-led poultry farm that is devoted to contributing its quota in the country's strive towards attaining food self-sufficiency. 

As a Human Resource specialist by profession, Ebrima has earned himself a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Development with 9 years ' professional work experience in administration and he is currently working as an Administrative Assistant with Gamhousing Real Estate Agency and has worked with different reputable institutions in the Gambia.

Isha Bittaye

Admin & Finance Officer

Isha Bittaye is a young hardworking woman, a Tax Sub-Officer and an environmental enthusiast. She is the Admin and Finance Officer of Green-Up Gambia. Isha handles the overall admin, keep financial records, updates and operates the Green-Up twitter Account. Being an environmental enthusiast has helped her a lot in terms of commitment, dedication and putting more effort in action on all activities. I love writing and learning. Getting to learn new things on a daily is fun. 

Muhammed Jammeh

National Coordinator

Muhammed Jammeh has a seven years’ experience in advocacy and youth development. His works focuses on capacitating young people and advocating issues regarding climate change and gender equality. He is the National Coordinator of Climate Watch- The Gambia (GREEN UP- Gambia). He equips young people with the right knowledge and tools to enable them become productive societal assets. He backs an Advanced Diploma in Management and Policy Analysis at Management Development Institute of The Gambia, a tertiary institution where he also served as the President of the Student’s Union Government in the year 2017-2018. He also served as the Finance Minister of the National Union of Gambia Students (NUGS). He is currently reading BA in Development Studies at the University of The Gambia. Muhammed’s passion for advocacy is borne by the timely need to young people to rise up to the occasion and take charge of their own future as goodwill agents and influencers. It is behind this drive that he implemented the YALI Africa4Her Project in May 2016 and was awarded as an Africa4HerChampion. He is also one of Barrack Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) fellows.