by CREATE Field Staff | Mar 4, 2016 | Testimonials
After many years in the city, Djiby Top, 35, recently returned to Ouarkhokh with his family. The possibility of earning money through CREATE!’s cooperative gardening program was one of his primary motivations for returning to his hometown. Djiby had gardened...
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 26, 2016 | VSLA
Each week, CREATE! cooperative members gather to manage their money in Voluntary Savings and Lending Associations (VSLAs). VSLA members save small amounts of money each week and then make loans to each other to cover business, personal, and household costs....
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 19, 2016 | Cooperative Community Gardens
Thanks to mild temperatures, access to abundant water, and the hard work of members of village agricultural cooperatives, the gardens in all of CREATE!’s partner communities are thriving! Each day, cooperative members gather at their garden site to transplant...
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 12, 2016 | Testimonials
“We now have the means to change our community for the better. Because we now have employment, we can stay in the village and work together. Community unity is strength.” Awa Dieng, 20, has been a member of the Darou Diadji agricultural cooperative for the past year....
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 5, 2016 | News
In January, CREATE!’s partner communities in Senegal hosted two special visitors – Marsha Wallace, co-founder of Dining for Women (DFW), and Patricia Andersson, a longtime DFW Chapter leader and coordinator of DFW’s travel program. Marsha and Patricia spent...
