by Louise Ruhr | May 5, 2014 | Improved Cookstoves
Women in CREATE! partner communities have enthusiastically embraced using and constructing CREATE!’s clay-sand improved cookstove. Mere Top, Thieneba Cooperative President and cookstove trainer, has worked diligently to ensure that every household in...
by Louise Ruhr | Apr 11, 2014 | News, Senegal, Solar Power Projects
CREATE! Executive Director, Barry Wheeler, was present for the recent installation of a 20 foot pole for the new solar pumping system that the CREATE! Senegalese Field Team is in the process of installing in the community of Fass Kane. As the Field Team...
by Louise Ruhr | Apr 10, 2014 | Solar Power Projects, Water
”Perfect!” This is the word that CREATE! Executive Director Barry Wheeler used to describe the installation of the integrated solar water pumping and gravity-fed water storage and irrigation network in the Thieneba Community Garden. This was Barry’s first visit...
by Louise Ruhr | Apr 4, 2014 | Improved Cookstoves, Senegal
Recently there has been a spontaneous surge in demand for CREATE!’s clay-sand improved cookstove. In the past few months, our Field Team has further developed and cultivated our relationship with the Senegal Department of Water and Forestry (see our latest newsletter...
by Louise Ruhr | Mar 26, 2014 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal
Relationships, trust, and understanding take time to cultivate and refine. Since beginning programming in the village of Thieneba in 2011, CREATE!’s team has worked alongside community members to implement and maintain a cooperative community garden. This past...
