Crossing Cultures

Crossing Cultures

Every day, CREATE!’s field team in Senegal works with partner communities to help them manage their community gardens, VSLA groups, poultry sheds, and tree planting campaigns, as well as facilitating improved cookstove trainings. On top of this, over the last couple...
Attaya: Senegalese Tea Culture

Attaya: Senegalese Tea Culture

It’s 4:30pm and the hot desert sun is finally starting to sink lower into the sky, casting long shadows and golden light across the cooperative community garden in the village of Walo. The temperature still hovers around 100 degrees F.  Women chat and laugh with one...
Celebrate International Women’s Day

Celebrate International Women’s Day

This Thursday, March 8 is International Women’s Day, and here at CREATE! we’re celebrating the powerful women in our international community who are working together to make our world a better place from the village level. The United Nations’ theme for this...
A Visit of Appreciation

A Visit of Appreciation

Above: CREATE! Executive Director Louise Ruhr chats with Diender cooperative president Ndaga in the community garden. CREATE! Executive Director Louise Ruhr has been in Senegal traveling through CREATE!’s partner communities between January and March this year. In...
Experiencing Senegal

Experiencing Senegal

Greetings from Gossas! This week, I am writing from Senegal while I’m here working alongside our Senegalese staff and visiting our field sites for the first time. My main task while I’m here is to help increase the capacity of the communications team, which works...