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 Field Staff | May 5, 2017 | Poultry, Testimonials
In the CREATE! partner community of Ouarkhokh, there are now 12 households that have their own poultry sheds. Seven of these are owned by CREATE! cooperative members, who learned how to raise poultry through CREATE! training and shared this knowledge with their...
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 | Jul 22, 2016 | Poultry
In recent months, CREATE! field technicians worked with community volunteers in Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji to help them build their own poultry sheds. After receiving training in the care, management, and marketing of poultry from CREATE! field technicians,...
by CREATE Field Staff | Jun 19, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Culture & Recipes, Poultry
This week marked the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. During Ramadan, observant Muslims abstain from drinking and eating from sunrise to sunset. In addition, individuals spend this month reflecting on and enacting Islamic tenets, including empathy for...
by CREATE Field Staff | Apr 3, 2015 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Poultry, Testimonials, VSLA
In the community of Thieneba, CREATE! programs are thriving. The Thieneba cooperative, which boasts nearly 200 participants, produces tomatoes, eggplant, pepper, African eggplant, okra, cucumber, carrot, watermelon, onion, and lettuce. Women have sold about...
