By Kaitlyn Grigsby | CREATE! Grants Coordinator & Project Leader
Friends,
Thanks to your generous contributions and foundation support, CREATE! will be able to provide sustainable access to clean water for families in rural Senegal. Through this project, CREATE! continues to strengthen and expand our partnerships with rural farming communities in Senegal’s Guinguineo District.
Community members in Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji have already formed gardening cooperatives and started tree nurseries and are looking forward to growing their own vegetables using solar pumps and gravity-fed irrigation systems. CREATE!’s skilled field technicians will soon begin to install solar arrays and solar-powered water pumping systems in these communities.
In December, CREATE! staff members met with leaders from each of these three communities to strengthen and formalize our mutual financial and technical partnerships. CREATE! Executive Director Barry Wheeler, on visiting these new partner communities, is “enormously impressed and inspired by the resilience, creativity, knowledge, dignity, and warm-heartedness of the villagers with whom we work and collaborate.” Barry Wheeler and leaders from each community signed memoranda of understanding that outline CREATE!’s commitments to these villages and the responsibilities of Walo, Gagnick Mack, and Darou Diadji to work towards the programs’ success.
With your help, we can extend this project and ensure that other communities in the Guinguineo District have access to clean water! Today, you can help these poor, rural communities follow their dreams and feed their families. This is the last day in 2014 to contribute to this project through GlobalGiving! Please help communities like these, where residents earn only about $350 a year, gain new skills and livelihoods through access to clean, abundant supplies of water. With your generous donation, we can ensure that these families receive the help they need to improve their lives through sustainable agriculture.
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 becoming our friend on Facebook, following us on Twitter, and checking out our blog!
Best wishes,
Kaitlyn Grigsby
CREATE! Grants Coordinator & Project Leader
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