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.
Women Empower Women in Rural Communities
Climate change has taken a toll on life in rural Senegal. Families become separated as men look for work in places even as far as Europe. Women will stay in the communities to take care of their children, occasionally working during the short rainy season, or working...
How Can Local Environmental Changes Have Global Effects?
Climate change is a global challenge that affects communities around the world. Many people are working to develop sustainable lifestyles locally in an effort to alleviate this challenge. How can local environmental changes have global effects? Part of the solution to...
Combating Climate Change in Africa
During the last few weeks of September, millions of people around the world have come together to take action against climate change. Over 66 countries participated in making this one of the most significant climate strikes in history. In Senegal, hundreds of students...
CREATE!’s Solar Water Pumps: Bringing Life to the Desert
Water is CREATE!’s keystone program! This is the foundation for economic success in rural Senegal. CREATE!'s solar water pumps bring year-round water to communities. With year-round access to water, communities can engage in projects such as tree-planting campaigns...
CREATE!’s Reforestation Campaign: Village Nurseries in Senegal
CREATE!'s tree-planting program helps reforest and replenish regions that have been stripped of nutrients due to land exploitation and increasing desertification. Not only do trees support the health of the soil, but they also improve food security for families in...
A Grassroots Approach to Microlending
How can microlending make a difference in someone’s life? In rural Senegal, access to money-lending associations is limited for remote communities. The external money lenders that do visit the communities often have high-interest rates. This makes it difficult for...
What is an Advantage to Alternative Energy Technology?
Across rural Senegal, many people use fossil fuels, coal and wood-burning open fires, as well as other harmful energies in their communities. CREATE! is addressing these issues through an integrated approach to energy conservation. What is an advantage to alternative...
The Improved Cookstove: Clean Wood Burning Cookstoves
Renewable and appropriate technology is at the heart of CREATE!’s work. We strive to develop sustainable solutions that benefit communities and preserve the environment. Our solutions range from solar-powered water pumps to organic agriculture methods, improved...
We Plant for the Planet: CREATE! Receives Certificate of Recognition
Every year CREATEs hosts an annual tree-planting campaign to plant for the planet. On this year’s Journée de l'arbre (Tree Day) in Senegal, CREATE! was awarded a diploma of recognition by the Fatick Governor. The diploma is in honor of our contribution to...
Solar Water Pumps Bring Life to the Desert
CREATE!'s partner communities reside within the Fatick, Kaolack, and Louga regions of Senegal. These areas are no strangers to desertification and unpredictable rainfall- the results of climate change. Looking out into the landscape, you would never know that deep...
How Can We Develop a Circular Economy in Rural Senegal?
We live in a linear economy, described as a “take-make-dispose of” way of living. This creates excess waste that builds up over time and harms our environment. A circular economy, however, closes the loop so that “waste” is often improved and reused again. This mimics...
Developing Sustainable Communities in Rural Senegal
CREATE! has partnered with two new communities this year! We have chosen to work with Boustane Lo and Mbossedji after they showed enthusiasm and dedication to participating in new projects and developing sustainable communities in rural Senegal. In the photo above,...