by CREATE! | Feb 1, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Improved Cookstoves, Testimonials
As Senegal reaches the peak of its dry season, it’s even more crucial for rural communities to be self-reliant and resilient. Many of these rural villages are based in Senegal’s Peanut Basin. Named for its popular cash crop, many farmers in this area used...
by CREATE! | Jan 11, 2019 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Poultry, Senegal, Testimonials
Let’s check in with Thienaba! A community that graduated from CREATE!’s self-development program one year ago. CREATE!’s team of technicians check in with graduated communities once a week to make sure the solar-powered technology and other activities are running...
by CREATE! | Dec 14, 2018 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Improved Cookstoves, Poultry, Testimonials
Fatou Diouf is a mother of four living in the rural village of Diender. Each morning, Fatou walks to the community garden from her hut. She joins the other village women in the site where they begin their daily work. At the end of the day, Fatou carries home a variety...
by CREATE! | Oct 19, 2018 | Solar Power Projects, Water
Often when people think of the desert, they think of a hot, dry climate – a place where water is scarce, and sunshine is plentiful. And indeed, this is what it’s like across much of rural Senegal. As part of our renewable energy projects, however, CREATE! works to...
by CREATE! | Oct 5, 2018 | News, Senegal, Solar Power Projects, Water
We are thrilled to announce that One Day’s Wages has once again chosen CREATE! as the recipient of a matching grant to increase water access in Senegal. But we need YOUR help to raise 50% of the grant ($29,480) by October 31. If we do, One Day’s Wages will match us...
