by CREATE! | Feb 1, 2018 | Testimonials
Daba Séne, 45, of Keur Daouda, remembers a time when cooking the daily meal for her family of eight was a lengthy process. “When I used to cook with the traditional three-stone fire, the wood would burn up quickly and I’d have to keep adding more,” she says. She’d use...
by CREATE! | Jan 18, 2018 | Testimonials
Asta Ndiaye, 65, is a vegetable seller, so she certainly knows the value of having good quality produce. In the past, she used to buy and sell all her produce on the Kaolack market nearly 20 km away, but these days, she can grow her own vegetables to sell year-round...
by CREATE! | Jan 11, 2018 | Cooperative Community Gardens
Above: Women enjoy an abundance of fresh papaya from their garden in Darou Diadji during the cool season in Senegal. What is winter like where you live? For many of us in the US, January is a month of chilly temperatures, short daylight hours, and long, cozy nights!...
by CREATE! | Dec 28, 2017 | Testimonials, Water
Having access to clean water has been transformative for all of CREATE!’s partner villages, enabling women to grow crops year-round in their community gardens, as seen above, in Ngoné’s village of Fass Kane. Ngoné Mar has seen her village’s transformation from the...
by CREATE! | Dec 21, 2017 | Improved Cookstoves
What do your holiday traditions look like? Across cultures, many traditions begin and center around cooking and food. In just a few days, families and friends will be gathering to celebrate Christmas here in the US and in many other parts of the world, cooking up...
