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...
by CREATE! | Apr 19, 2018 | Testimonials
Mbene Fall, 67, is a fish and vegetable seller from the community of Fass Kane. Before her village partnered with CREATE!, she would buy and resell goods on the Kaolack market nearly 20 km away. As a widow supporting a family of 8, it was hard to makes ends meet. But...
by CREATE! | Mar 5, 2018 | Testimonials
“Every day, people across Senegal are cutting trees for firewood. This is why reforestation is very important for our future generations. Our parents planted trees that we are now using for shade and firewood. We must also plant trees for our children.” – Rokhaya Sene...
by CREATE! | Feb 1, 2018 | Testimonials
Daba Séne, 45, of Keur Daouda, remembers a time when cooking the daily meal for her family of eight was a lengthy process. “When I used to cook with the traditional three-stone fire, the wood would burn up quickly and I’d have to keep adding more,” she says. She’d use...