Surprising Benefits of a Community Garden in Senegal

Surprising Benefits of a Community Garden in Senegal

When CREATE! partnered with the village of Mboss last year, the garden site was established to serve not only the immediate community, but also several other surrounding villages. Thanks to its convenient location on the main road and just outside of the larger town...
Tree Planting in Senegal

Tree Planting in Senegal

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” It’s getting stiflingly hot and humid this time of year in Senegal. You can smell dampness in the air as rain clouds swell far in the distance. Soon, the rains will make their way to the...
Empowerment and Pride in Self-Sufficiency

Empowerment and Pride in Self-Sufficiency

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...
Spring Photos Highlights

Spring Photos Highlights

The cool season has come to an end in rural Senegal, and daily high temperatures now hover in the low 100s Fahrenheit. Nonetheless, the CREATE! field team continues to work hard with the beneficiaries in all thirteen partner communities so that they can continue to...
Senegalese Independence Day

Senegalese Independence Day

Yesterday, April 4th, CREATE!’s field team in Senegal had the day off to celebrate Senegalese Independence Day. The annual holiday marks the historic day in 1960 that the nation finally became independent from France after three centuries under colonial rule. Gaining...