Experiencing Senegal

Experiencing Senegal

Greetings from Gossas! This week, I am writing from Senegal while I’m here working alongside our Senegalese staff and visiting our field sites for the first time. My main task while I’m here is to help increase the capacity of the communications team, which works...
January Photo Highlights

January Photo Highlights

Above: CREATE! field technicians run periodic refresher training sessions across all 13 partner villages to remind women how to construct and repair their improved cookstoves, as seen here in Walo. January was a busy month for CREATE!’s field technicians in Senegal,...
Improving Living Conditions

Improving Living Conditions

Daba Séne, 45, of Keur Daouda, remembers a time when cooking the daily meal for her family of eight was a lengthy process. “When I used to cook with the traditional three-stone fire, the wood would burn up quickly and I’d have to keep adding more,” she says. She’d use...
Growing a Better Life

Growing a Better Life

Asta Ndiaye, 65, is a vegetable seller, so she certainly knows the value of having good quality produce. In the past, she used to buy and sell all her produce on the Kaolack market nearly 20 km away, but these days, she can grow her own vegetables to sell year-round...
Enjoying the Cool Season in Senegal

Enjoying the Cool Season in Senegal

Above: Women enjoy an abundance of fresh papaya from their garden in Darou Diadji during the cool season in Senegal. What is winter like where you live? For many of us in the US, January is a month of chilly temperatures, short daylight hours, and long, cozy nights!...