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CREATE! and Rotary help Mbossedji Change the Future of the Community

CREATE! and Rotary help Mbossedji Change the Future of the Community

by CREATE! | Apr 17, 2020 | Cooperative Community Gardens, News, Senegal

Mbossedji, one of CREATE!’s newest partner communities now has a thriving community garden and has produced more than 1,100 pounds of nutritious vegetables in just two months. This success has become possible due to CREATE!’s partnership with Rotary...
Decreasing Rural Migration in Senegal: An Interview with President Diop

Decreasing Rural Migration in Senegal: An Interview with President Diop

by CREATE! | Feb 7, 2020 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal, Testimonials, VSLA, Water

Communities in rural Senegal bear an enormous brunt of global climate change. This includes everything from desert encroachment, decreasing rainfall, to shorter growing seasons. In fact, the growing season is only 3-4 months out of the year! Because rural communities...
Adjusting to the Dry Season in West African Climate

Adjusting to the Dry Season in West African Climate

by CREATE! | Dec 6, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Solar Power Projects, Water

The clouds have cleared away, and the blue sky stretches from horizon to horizon as the sun scorches the parched Earth. It will be another nine-months until communities in rural Senegal see rain again. As the dry season progresses, the fresh green landscape from the...
Senegal Culture: Family First

Senegal Culture: Family First

by CREATE! | Nov 22, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Improved Cookstoves, Senegal, Testimonials

Binta Diop is a mother supporting a family of five in Keur Daouda. Traditionally, women in Senegal are in charge of childcare, housekeeping, and cooking. “Before CREATE!, I did not have an occupation,” she tells us. However, through CREATE!’s training programs, Binta,...
Mbossedji Installs Their First Solar Water Pump

Mbossedji Installs Their First Solar Water Pump

by CREATE! | Nov 15, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, News, Photo Highlights, Solar Power Projects, Water

We are so excited to announce that Mbossedji, one of our newest partner communities, officially has access to clean, abundant water! This is thanks to a successful well-rehabilitation and installation of a solar water pump by CREATE!’s highly skilled technicians. Now...
Women Empower Women in Rural Communities

Women Empower Women in Rural Communities

by CREATE! | Oct 11, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal, Testimonials

Climate change has taken a toll on life in rural Senegal. Families become separated as men look for work in places even as far as Europe. Women will stay in the communities to take care of their children, occasionally working during the short rainy season, or working...
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