by CREATE Field Staff | May 26, 2017 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials
Diarra Ndour, 41, loves working in the Gagnick Mack cooperative garden. She believes that participating in CREATE! training programs has changed her life. She says, “I have noticed an improvement in my family’s health because we now have clean water, fresh vegetables,...
by CREATE Field Staff | Apr 26, 2017 | Cooperative Community Gardens
In January, CREATE! field technicians worked with community volunteers to rehabilitate existing wells and install solar-powered water pumps and gravity-fed irrigation systems in the Back Samba Dior and Keur Daouda new garden sites. Now that access to clean, abundant,...
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 17, 2017 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials
Mere Ndeye Thioye, 65, loves working in the Diender cooperative gardening site. She says that she decided to participate in CREATE!’s programs because she wanted to change her life. She adds, “I don’t regret joining the garden cooperative because I have had the...
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 10, 2017 | Cooperative Community Gardens
Thanks to mild temperatures, access to abundant water, and the hard work of cooperative members, the gardens in all of CREATE!’s partner communities are thriving! Some cooperative groups had a harvest of over 550 pounds of vegetables in January alone. Each day,...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jan 20, 2017 | Cooperative Community Gardens
Last week, reporters from Guinguineo Community Radio visited CREATE!’s cooperative garden site in Darou Diadji to record a broadcast about our partnership with the village. The interview was part of a weekly broadcast focusing on agriculture in Guinguineo Department....
by CREATE Field Staff | Nov 18, 2016 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal
Greetings from Gossas, Senegal! For the next few weeks, I will be writing blog posts directly from Senegal as I visit CREATE!’s partner communities for the first time. On this trip, I am traveling with CREATE! Executive Director Louise Ruhr and CREATE! book keeper,...
