by CREATE! | Sep 14, 2018 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Testimonials
Imagine supporting a family of seven in the sweltering savanna of rural Senegal… Ndoya Kane, 30, does just this. Ndoya not only provides food for her family regularly from her community garden, but she also generates income in her village of Fass Koffe. As the...
by CREATE! | Jul 26, 2018 | Photo Highlights
Many of CREATE!’s partner communities are located in Senegal’s “peanut basin”. This area of the country is renowned for its seasonal groundnut cultivation. Each year, over one million metric tons of peanuts are harvested from the region. The majority of the...
by CREATE! | Jul 19, 2018 | Testimonials
Fama Fall, 55, of Back Samba Dior, is no stranger to the challenges of living in rural Senegal. She used to spend many hours of cooking on a traditional three-stone fire, tending to the pot and constantly feeding in more firewood. To feed her family of five, she had...
by CREATE! | Jul 12, 2018 | Cooperative Community Gardens
One of the most gratifying aspects of our work in rural Senegal is getting to see the literal transformation of communities throughout their partnership with CREATE!. Each community has its own unique characteristics, challenges, and advantages, but it’s always...
by CREATE! | Jul 5, 2018 | Testimonials
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...
