by CREATE! | Jul 5, 2018 | Testimonials
When CREATE! partnered with the village of Mboss last year, the garden site was established to serve not only the immediate community, but also several other surrounding villages. Thanks to its convenient location on the main road and just outside of the larger town...
by CREATE! | Jun 28, 2018 | Tree Nurseries
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” It’s getting stiflingly hot and humid this time of year in Senegal. You can smell dampness in the air as rain clouds swell far in the distance. Soon, the rains will make their way to the...
by CREATE! | Jun 21, 2018 | Testimonials
Seynabou Niang, 35, has been vice president of the Diender garden cooperative since her village first started working with CREATE! in 2010. Like many women in rural Senegal, Seynabou didn’t have a formal occupation before she began working with CREATE!. This made it...
by CREATE! | Jun 14, 2018 | News
(Image from senenews.com) Football (or soccer, here in the US) is one of the most popular sports in the world, including in Senegal. This year CREATE! staff and field technicians will be watching on the edge of their seats, because for the second time in world...
by CREATE! | Jun 7, 2018 | Tree Nurseries
For about nine months out of the year, the desert of rural Senegal bakes under the hot sun. Scraggly trees wither and bow against dusty winds blowing off the Sahara, and the grass becomes brittle and dry. Cattle and goat herders migrate south in search of better...
