by CREATE Field Staff | Apr 29, 2016 | VSLA
In CREATE!’s partner community of Thieneba, one of the Voluntary Savings and Lending Associations (VSLAs) met last week to conclude their second nine-month savings and lending cycle. By the end of the cycle, the thirty women participating in the group were able to...
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 26, 2016 | VSLA
Each week, CREATE! cooperative members gather to manage their money in Voluntary Savings and Lending Associations (VSLAs). VSLA members save small amounts of money each week and then make loans to each other to cover business, personal, and household costs....
by CREATE Field Staff | Nov 20, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, VSLA
In October, CREATE! field technicians began building savings and lending skills in rural Senegal by training cooperative members in Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji in Voluntary Savings and Lending Association (VSLA) techniques. About 180 people participated in...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jun 26, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials, VSLA
Ndeye Fari Thaim, 38, supports her elderly husband and six children by selling vegetables that she grows in the Ouarkhokh cooperative garden. “We live in this community that has neither factories nor jobs to employ the youth or generate money to support our families.”...
by CREATE Field Staff | Apr 3, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Poultry, Testimonials, VSLA
In the community of Thieneba, CREATE! programs are thriving. The Thieneba cooperative, which boasts nearly 200 participants, produces tomatoes, eggplant, pepper, African eggplant, okra, cucumber, carrot, watermelon, onion, and lettuce. Women have sold about...
by CREATE Field Staff | Mar 20, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Improved Cookstoves, Testimonials, VSLA
Korka Diouf, 46, recently moved to Ouarkhokh and joined her sister as a member of the village’s agricultural cooperative. Korka lives with her sister and her sister’s family in their compound. Korka has learned much through her training from CREATE! field technicians....
