By Kaitlyn Grigsby | Project Leader & CREATE! Grants Coordinator
Friends,
“Our village needs trees to bring back the rain that has become increasingly rare.” Mbaye Gueye, the chief of Darou Diadji, is thrilled that CREATE!’s well rehabilitation in his community is underway. With access to abundant and clean water, and training from CREATE! field technicians, Darou Diadji will soon start a cooperative vegetable garden and tree nursery that will benefit the community for years to come.
Thanks to your generous contributions and foundation support, CREATE! can extend this project and help other communities in Guinguineo District gain access to clean water. For today only, GlobalGiving is matching new contributions to this project! Please 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. With your generous donation, we can ensure that these families receive the help they need to improve their lives.
In Darou Diadji, community members and CREATE! field technicians have been preparing to rehabilitate the village well. The well has been unusable for some time and will require extensive repairs. Two highly qualified well diggers living in Darou Diadji have generously donated their labor to complete the community well rehabilitation. Once well repairs have been completed, CREATE! will install the solar-powered water pump and community members will begin building the gravity-fed irrigation system in the Darou Diadji garden site.
Project activities are also underway in the communities of Walo and Gagnick Mack. The Walo well is in good shape and community members have been working to build a platform for the water reservoir and to fence the cooperative garden site. Gagnick Mack does not currently have a well. Last week, CREATE! hired a qualified local technician who surveyed the Gagnick Mack garden site and determined the best place to dig the community’s well.
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
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