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 cooking on a traditional three-stone fire, tending to the pot and constantly feeding in more firewood. To feed her family of five, she had...
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!. This made it...
by CREATE! | May 31, 2018 | Testimonials
It’s hot and windy in the village of Keur Daouda. Faty Gueye, 45, is out with the rest of the women in her community cooperative garden, tending to the crops in the late afternoon. Although it’s hard work, Faty is motivated and happy to be training with CREATE!’s...
by CREATE! | May 10, 2018 | Testimonials
Women’s empowerment is a major goal of our training programs in rural Senegal, and time after time, along with this empowerment, we also see women taking great pride in the new lives they are building and the skills they are learning. Arame Thiam is one of these...
