by CREATE! | Nov 9, 2018 | Testimonials, Tree Nurseries
Meet Arame Diop, the president of the Garden Cooperative Group in Wereyane. Arame encourages her group to overcome the obstacles of climate change while developing her community’s self-sufficiency in Senegal. The village of Wereyane is located in the Louga Region of...
by CREATE! | Jun 28, 2018 | Tree Nurseries
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” It’s getting stiflingly hot and humid this time of year in Senegal. You can smell dampness in the air as rain clouds swell far in the distance. Soon, the rains will make their way to the...
by CREATE! | Jun 7, 2018 | Tree Nurseries
For about nine months out of the year, the desert of rural Senegal bakes under the hot sun. Scraggly trees wither and bow against dusty winds blowing off the Sahara, and the grass becomes brittle and dry. Cattle and goat herders migrate south in search of better...
by CREATE Field Staff | Aug 10, 2017 | Senegal, Tree Nurseries
This past weekend, Senegal celebrated its National Arbor Day, or “la journée nationale de l’arbre,” which has taken place on the first Sunday of August every year since 1984. Organized by the local governing council and the National Water and Forestry Service, and...
by CREATE Field Staff | May 12, 2017 | Tree Nurseries
During the 2016 rainy season, cooperative members in Darou Diadji planted hundreds of banana trees in their garden site and distributed trees to households throughout the community. Trees provide shade, moderate temperatures, and produce fruit and nuts. In several...
by CREATE Field Staff | Aug 19, 2016 | Tree Nurseries
Each rainy season, CREATE! field technicians work with cooperative members to plant thousands of trees in the communities where CREATE! works through our annual tree planting campaign in Senegal. These trees help mitigate the impact of climate change in numerous ways....
