by CREATE! | Apr 26, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Photo Highlights, Senegal
Back in November, we shared stories from our two new partner communities in 2018. Yougouré was one of these communities and had just started to clear a plot of land where they would cultivate a sustainable year-round garden. Fast-forward about four months and Yougouré...
by CREATE! | Dec 7, 2018 | Photo Highlights
As we shift into our rainy and cold months, Senegal shifts into its dry season. Senegal’s dry season runs from mid-October to mid-June, and not a drop of rain will fall in the coming months. But this doesn’t stop our partner communities from continuing to garden and...
by CREATE! | Jul 26, 2018 | Photo Highlights
Many of CREATE!’s partner communities are located in Senegal’s “peanut basin”. This area of the country is renowned for its seasonal groundnut cultivation. Each year, over one million metric tons of peanuts are harvested from the region. The majority of the...
by CREATE! | Apr 26, 2018 | Photo Highlights
The cool season has come to an end in rural Senegal, and daily high temperatures now hover in the low 100s Fahrenheit. Nonetheless, the CREATE! field team continues to work hard with the beneficiaries in all thirteen partner communities so that they can continue to...
by CREATE! | Mar 29, 2018 | Photo Highlights
Every day, CREATE!’s field team in Senegal works with partner communities to help them manage their community gardens, VSLA groups, poultry sheds, and tree planting campaigns, as well as facilitating improved cookstove trainings. On top of this, over the last couple...
by CREATE! | Feb 8, 2018 | Photo Highlights
Above: CREATE! field technicians run periodic refresher training sessions across all 13 partner villages to remind women how to construct and repair their improved cookstoves, as seen here in Walo. January was a busy month for CREATE!’s field technicians in Senegal,...
