by CREATE! | May 24, 2019 | Improved Cookstoves, Senegal, Testimonials, Tree Nurseries
Meet Mame (Grandmother) Nogaye Diop, one of the oldest participating members of CREATE!’s programs in Fass Koffe. Mame Nogaye spent most of her life cooking over a traditional open fire for her family. This meant long hours collecting wood in the forest and the rest...
by CREATE! | Mar 1, 2019 | Improved Cookstoves, Testimonials, Tree Nurseries
How do people know how to protect their gardens from locusts? When is the best time of year to plant navets (turnips)? Or, how to cook the best ceebu jen? Children watch their parents’ daily activities, and in turn, parents teach their children the skills that they...
by CREATE! | Nov 30, 2018 | Improved Cookstoves, Testimonials, Tree Nurseries
Every year, cooperative members in CREATE!’s partner communities will plant a total of 19,000 tree seedlings, supporting reforestation in Senegal. The trees are planted during the rainy season which runs from late June to early October. The village of Santhie first...
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...
