by CREATE! | May 31, 2018 | Testimonials
It’s hot and windy in the village of Keur Daouda. Faty Gueye, 45, is out with the rest of the women in her community cooperative garden, tending to the crops in the late afternoon. Although it’s hard work, Faty is motivated and happy to be training with CREATE!’s...
by CREATE! | May 10, 2018 | Testimonials
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...
by CREATE! | May 3, 2018 | Culture & Recipes
Improved cookstoves can be found in almost any household in CREATE!’s partner communities, but did you know that you can also find improved cookstoves throughout their community gardens as well? These improved cookstoves are used to make café Touba, a popular coffee...
by CREATE! | Apr 19, 2018 | Testimonials
Mbene Fall, 67, is a fish and vegetable seller from the community of Fass Kane. Before her village partnered with CREATE!, she would buy and resell goods on the Kaolack market nearly 20 km away. As a widow supporting a family of 8, it was hard to makes ends meet. But...
by CREATE! | Apr 12, 2018 | Senegal
In recent years, the topic of women and climate change has been gaining momentum across global discourse. But for the women in our partner communities in rural Senegal, it’s a very real issue that has been impacting their lives for decades. Of the 13 million people in...
