by CREATE! | Sep 28, 2018 | Culture & Recipes, Improved Cookstoves, Senegal
In all of CREATE!’s communities, women prepare a variety of dishes in their favorite cook pot using their fuel-efficient cookstoves. These fuel-efficient cookstoves allow women to prepare meals using their customary methods and pots in a safer and more efficient way...
by CREATE! | May 3, 2018 | Culture & Recipes
Improved cookstoves can be found in almost any household in CREATE!’s partner communities, but did you know that you can also find improved cookstoves throughout their community gardens as well? These improved cookstoves are used to make café Touba, a popular coffee...
by CREATE! | Mar 22, 2018 | Culture & Recipes
It’s 4:30pm and the hot desert sun is finally starting to sink lower into the sky, casting long shadows and golden light across the cooperative community garden in the village of Walo. The temperature still hovers around 100 degrees F. Women chat and laugh with one...
by CREATE Field Staff | Sep 14, 2017 | Culture & Recipes
We often say that the improved cookstoves we teach communities to build are more than just cookstoves. They are a portal to new partnerships and a way to build community around age-old traditions surviving in a rapidly changing world. Globally, sharing food is one of...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jun 2, 2017 | Culture & Recipes, Senegal
Last Friday marked the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Senegal. 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...
by CREATE Field Staff | Apr 21, 2017 | Culture & Recipes, Senegal
It’s Easter in Senegal. Every year on Good Friday, Senegalese Catholics make a traditional treat called ngalakh to enjoy over the Easter weekend. Ngalakh is a porridge made of millet, peanut paste, baobab fruit, sugar, and vanilla. After mass on Good Friday,...
