by CREATE! | Oct 12, 2018 | Testimonials, Water
Agriculture is a way of life in rural Senegalese communities. Since farmers depend on agriculture for their income and water to grow their crops, water becomes the source a sustainable future in Senegal. This is the driving force of our sustainable water projects....
by CREATE! | Sep 20, 2018 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Improved Cookstoves, Testimonials, VSLA
Meet Seynabou Konte, a community member in Mboss who is living sustainably in her rural village. From her improved cookstove to her year-round garden, Seynabou has been learning vital skills from CREATE!’s technicians so that she can live and work both...
by CREATE! | Sep 14, 2018 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials
Imagine supporting a family of seven in the sweltering savanna of rural Senegal… Ndoya Kane, 30, does just this. Ndoya not only provides food for her family regularly from her community garden, but she also generates income in her village of Fass Koffe. As the...
by CREATE! | Jul 19, 2018 | Testimonials
Fama Fall, 55, of Back Samba Dior, is no stranger to the challenges of living in rural Senegal. She used to spend many hours of the day cooking on a traditional three-stone fire, tending to the pot and constantly feeding in more firewood. To feed her family of five,...
by CREATE! | Jul 5, 2018 | Testimonials
When CREATE! partnered with the village of Mboss last year, the garden site was established to serve not only the immediate community, but also several other surrounding villages, thanks to its convenient location on the main road and just outside of the larger town...
by CREATE! | Jun 21, 2018 | Testimonials
Seynabou Niang, 35, has been vice president of the Diender garden cooperative since her village first started working with CREATE! in 2010. Like many women in rural Senegal, Seynabou didn’t have a formal occupation before she began working with CREATE!, so it was...
