Community Partnership News From Rural Senegal
At CREATE, we believe that sustainable change is possible through community partnership. We partner with communities in rural Senegal to promote self-sufficiency in 4 key areas: water, energy, agriculture, and income generation. To learn more about the latest news and successes happening in our partner communities, explore the blogs below.
Summer Photo Highlights
Many of CREATE!’s partner communities are located in Senegal’s “peanut basin”. This area of the country is renowned for its seasonal groundnut cultivation. Each year, over one million metric tons of peanuts are harvested from the region. The majority of the...
Learning New Skills in Back Samba Dior
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...
Mboss: Then and Now
One of the most gratifying aspects of our work in rural Senegal is getting to see the literal transformation of communities throughout their partnership with CREATE!. Each community has its own unique characteristics, challenges, and advantages, but it’s always...
Surprising Benefits of a Community Garden in Senegal
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...
Tree Planting in Senegal
“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...
Growing Success at Home
Seynabou Niang has been vice president of the Diender garden cooperative since her village first started working with CREATE! in 2010.
Senegal in the World Cup
For the second time ever in world history, Senegal’s football team, the Lions of Teranga, will be competing in the FIFA World Cup. We can’t wait to watch!
Planting for the Future
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...
Cooperative Garden Provides Opportunity for a Better Life
It’s hot and windy in the village of Keur Daouda, but Faty Gueye, 45, is out with the rest of the women in her community garden cooperative, tending to the crops in the late afternoon. Although it’s hard work, Faty is motivated and happy to be training with CREATE!’s technicians.
CREATE! Founder Barry Wheeler Visits Senegal
Over the past month, CREATE! Founder Barry Wheeler has been busy in the field with our staff in Senegal. He has been providing support, guidance, and discussions on further program development. He and the team have had a lot on their plate during the last few weeks....
2017 Annual Impact Report
CREATE!’s 2017 Annual Impact Report is here! Every spring, we publish an annual report to summarize our accomplishments with our partner communities over the past year. This year we are especially proud to highlight the great achievements of our beneficiaries and field staff, made possible by the support of our donors.
Empowerment and Pride in Self-Sufficiency
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 women.