Gender Equality Senegal Project #17555

Clean Water for 1,500 People in Rural Senegal

by Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!)

Project Report | Jun 15, 2016
Your Donation to CREATE! Matched Today at 50%

By Kaitlyn Grigsby-Hall | Project Leader & CREATE! Grants Manager

Seynabou in the Darou Diadji garden

Friends,

Thanks to your support, hundreds of families in rural Senegal now have clean, abundant, and affordable water! In the villages of Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji, access to abundant water helps cooperative gardens thrive and ensures that families can eat fresh, nutritious vegetables year-round, even during the hottest part of the year.

Unfortunately, there are other communities in Senegal who don’t have the access to water required to grow their own vegetables. CREATE! wants to change that. For today only, GlobalGiving is matching new donations to this project at 50%! Imagine – your donation of $100 today will become $150 that CREATE! can use to help families in rural Senegal gain new agricultural skills and economic livelihoods, made possible through well rehabilitation and solar pumps that provide year-round access to clean, abundant water.

What does clean water mean for families in rural Senegal? With access to abundant and affordable water, CREATE! agricultural cooperative members are able to grow vegetables year-round in desert-like conditions for the first time ever. In Darou Diadji, Seynabou says, “The rehabilitation of our village well has been CREATE!’s biggest contribution to our community. Before CREATE!, there was no clean water in Darou Diadji. Now, we can drink our water and grow healthy vegetables throughout the year.”

Want to learn more about CREATE!? Stay updated by signing up for our email list, becoming our friend on Facebook, and checking out our blog!

Best wishes,

Kaitlyn

Seynabou helps prepare garden beds for planting

Cooperative members gather water from a cistern

Seedlings are watered twice daily in hot weather

Women in Gagnick Mack weigh their eggplant harvest

Onions are an important dry season crop in Senegal

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May 17, 2016
From Desert to Thriving Oasis

By Kaitlyn Grigsby-Hall | CREATE! Project Leader & Grants Coordinator

Ndeye in the Gagnick Mack garden site

Friends,

What does clean water mean for families in rural Senegal? With access to abundant and affordable water, CREATE! agricultural cooperative members are able to grow vegetables year-round in desert-like conditions for the first time ever. In Gagnick Mack, Ndeye says, “Before CREATE! rehabilitated our well, it was difficult to find vegetables in our village. Our children didn’t even know vegetables. Now, thanks to the garden and the guidance of CREATE!’s field technicians, we are able to grow a variety of nutritious vegetables in Gagnick Mack.”

Improved health and nutrition are not the only benefits that access to water provides. Rokhe of Darou Diaji adds, “Before CREATE! our village was like a desert, but now thanks to the garden and the tree planting campaign, we have green space and many trees around the village.” This transformation from desert to thriving oasis is only possible through access to clean, abundant, and affordable water.

Thanks to you, the villages of Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji are now tending thriving vegetable gardens year round. Even during the hottest part of the year, cooperative members are able to produce hundreds of pounds of vegetables!

There are other communities in Guinguineo District without access to abundant and affordable water. With your continued support, we can help families in these villages gain new agricultural skills and economic livelihoods, made possible through solar-powered water pumps and gravity-fed irrigation systems in cooperative gardens. Your donations make a difference!

CREATE!’s beneficiaries truly appreciate your donation to help them on their way to self-sufficiency! So what’s next? We would love to have you get more involved with CREATE! Send an email to kaitlyn@createaction.org and I will let you know all the different ways that you can help out! Be sure to stay updated with what’s going on with CREATE! by signing up for our email list, becoming our friend on Facebook, following us on Twitter, and checking out our blog!

Best wishes,

Kaitlyn

Preparing compost for a new garden bed

Gathering water from a basin in the Walo garden

Watering newly planted vegetable seedlings in Walo

A thriving onion bed in Darou Diadji

Cooperative members weigh the tomato harvest

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Feb 23, 2016
The Transformational Power of Water

By Kaitlyn Grigsby-Hall | CREATE! Grants Coordinator and Project Leader

Maguette in the Walo garden

Friends,

“Through training from CREATE!, I now have the opportunity to change my life.” Maguette is a member of the CREATE! agricultural cooperative in the village of Walo. “In the past, there were no jobs in Walo and men travelled to the city to look for work.” Maguette adds, “Now, thanks to CREATE!, both men and women are able to stay in Walo and support their families.”

Access to abundant, affordable water has transformed the communities of Walo, Darou Diadji, and Gagnick Mack. In all three villages, agricultural cooperative members are now growing abundant crops of vegetables such as onions, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and lettuce. In January alone, the cooperative in Darou Diadji harvested almost 1,500 pounds of eggplants! The trees that community members planted in August’s reforestation campaign are also thriving! In Walo, the young papaya trees are already producing fruit.

Cooperative members are thrilled that they are now able to sell their harvested vegetables and fruit for a profit in local markets. Overall, community members are very pleased that they have had the opportunity to participate in CREATE! training programs. Maguette appreciates the benefits of clean, easily accessible water: “I used to travel long distances to fetch water for my elderly father-in-law. Now, CREATE! has removed a heavy burden for me. I now have easy access to water from the rehabilitated well.”

Thanks to you, the communities of Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji are thriving. Do you want to continue to make a difference? With your ongoing support, we can help other communities in rural Senegal gain access to clean water. Your donations will help communities like Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji gain new agricultural skills and economic livelihoods, made possible through solar-powered water pumps and gravity-fed irrigation systems in cooperative gardens.

Best wishes,

Kaitlyn

Darou Diadji's abundant eggplant harvest

Watering seedlings in Walo

Thriving onion seedlings in Darou Diadji garden

Cooperative members transplant tomato seedlings

Young papayas in the Walo garden

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