by CREATE Field Staff | Oct 14, 2016 | Culture & Recipes
On October 12th, families in Senegal gathered to celebrate the holiday of Tamkharit. Also called Achoura, Tamkharit is the Islamic New Year. Food is an important part of the festivities. Women prepare a traditional meal of thiéré, couscous with spicy lamb stew, that...
by CREATE Field Staff | Oct 7, 2016 | Testimonials
Awa Leye, 86, says that her life has dramatically improved since she started participating in CREATE! programs in Darou Diadji two years ago, and has seen how the program is helping communities develop. She enjoys working in the village’s cooperative garden and is...
by CREATE Field Staff | Sep 2, 2016 | Testimonials
In his collection of essays about Africa titled The Shadow of the Sun, celebrated Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski described the daily ritual of women in Senegal in the early 1990s: “Preparing the meal takes a woman the greater part of the day—the...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jul 29, 2016 | Testimonials
Faty Top, 45, lives happily in the community of Ouarkhokh with her five children. She decided to participate in CREATE!’s cooperative agricultural programs because she wanted to work and to support her children. CREATE!’s programs have had a profound effect on Faty’s...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jul 22, 2016 | Poultry
In recent months, CREATE! field technicians worked with community volunteers in Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji to help them build their own poultry sheds. After receiving training in the care, management, and marketing of poultry from CREATE! field technicians,...
