by CREATE Field Staff | Mar 25, 2016 | Testimonials
Fatou Thioye, 22, is a member of the agricultural cooperative in Diender and has been active in it for the past five years. She is proud that the community of Diender is now producing its own vegetables. She says, “in my life there has been change for the better since...
by CREATE Field Staff | Mar 18, 2016 | Improved Cookstoves
Thanks to training from CREATE! field technicians, our improved cookstoves continue to spread across Senegal. In February, a delegation from the community of Djilor traveled to Fass Koffe to learn how to build improved cookstoves. The participants will bring their new...
by CREATE Field Staff | Mar 11, 2016 | Testimonials
“CREATE! has changed my life. Years ago I stayed at home with nothing to do because it was difficult for me to find a job. But now, with CREATE!’s help, I’m working in the garden with other women and we are all earning money.” Seynabou Diouf, 40, is a dynamic member...
by CREATE Field Staff | Mar 4, 2016 | Testimonials
After many years in the city, Djiby Top, 35, recently returned to Ouarkhokh with his family. The possibility of earning money through CREATE!’s cooperative gardening program was one of his primary motivations for returning to his hometown. Djiby had gardened...
by CREATE Field Staff | Feb 26, 2016 | VSLA
Each week, CREATE! cooperative members gather to manage their money in Voluntary Savings and Lending Associations (VSLAs). VSLA members save small amounts of money each week and then make loans to each other to cover business, personal, and household costs....
