by CREATE Field Staff | Aug 21, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal, Testimonials
CREATE! is building new opportunities for men in Senegal. In CREATE!’s three new partner communities in Guinguineo District, men are excited to contribute to cooperative agriculture programs! Currently, 24 men and 35 women are participating in agricultural training...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jul 2, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Water
A large crowd of residents gathered in Darou Diadji earlier this week to watch the installation of the solar-powered pumping system at the garden site’s newly rehabilitated well. As the pump started up and brought water 200 feet to the surface from a well that had...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jun 26, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials, VSLA
Ndeye Fari Thaim, 38, supports her elderly husband and six children by selling vegetables that she grows in the Ouarkhokh cooperative garden. “We live in this community that has neither factories nor jobs to employ the youth or generate money to support our families.”...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jun 19, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Culture & Recipes, Poultry
This week marked the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. During Ramadan, observant Muslims abstain from drinking and eating from sunrise to sunset. In addition, individuals spend this month reflecting on and enacting Islamic tenets, including empathy for...
by CREATE Field Staff | May 29, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials
Ndeye Diop, 29, lives in Walo with her two children. She describes Walo as a “small melting pot surrounded by baobab trees.” Ndeye is an active participant in Walo’s new agricultural cooperative. Ndeye “welcomes the good work that CREATE! is doing in Walo” and now...
by CREATE Field Staff | May 8, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal, Water
It’s hot and sunny in Ouarkhokh, Senegal. Very hot. The average temperature over the past week has been 113 degrees F and the community has not seen rain in months! Even in these difficult conditions, agricultural cooperative members in Ouarkhokh have continued to...
