by Louise Ruhr | Mar 26, 2014 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal
Relationships, trust, and understanding take time to cultivate and refine. Since beginning programming in the village of Thieneba in 2011, CREATE!’s team has worked alongside community members to implement and maintain a cooperative community garden. This past...
by Louise Ruhr | Jun 5, 2013 | Senegal, VSLA
Last week, twenty-six CREATE! community members and volunteers joined the ranks of more than seven million people worldwide–six million of them in Africa–who have been trained in the Voluntary Savings and Lending Association (VSLA) approach to managing...
by Administrator | Aug 3, 2012 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal
On my recent visit to Senegal I had the opportunity to participate in an amazing cabbage harvest at the CREATE! community garden site in the village of Ouadiour. Thanks to the solar powered pump that is providing 4,000 liters per day of fresh water for the gardens,...
