by CREATE Field Staff | Jan 13, 2017 | Testimonials
Ndeye Amy Diop, 21, lives with her in-laws in the small community of Walo while her husband is off working in Dakar. She started participating in CREATE! training programs about two years ago because she wanted to support her family. Ndeye says that before CREATE!...
by CREATE Field Staff | Dec 16, 2016 | Poultry, Testimonials
Ndeye Top, 52, is the president of the poultry production cooperative in the community of Thieneba. She lives with her four children and two grandchildren. Ndeye is proud of her village, where “there is solidarity among neighbors” and where her children are able to...
by CREATE Field Staff | Oct 20, 2016 | Testimonials
Modou Ndiaye, 39, lives in Walo with his wife and five children. Before CREATE! partnered with Walo to provide training in sustainable agriculture, Modou experienced unemployment in rural Senegal for most of the year. He was only able to work in his family’s fields...
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...
