By Kaitlyn Grigsby | CREATE! Grants Coordinator & Project Leader
Friends,
Thanks to your generous contributions and foundation support, CREATE! has ensured access to clean, abundant supplies of water for the community of Darou Diadji!
A large crowd of residents gathered in Darou Diadji in early July to assist with the installation of the solar-powered pumping system at the garden site’s newly rehabilitated well. As the pump started up and brought water 200 feet to the surface from a well that had been unused for some 20 years, community members could not believe their eyes! Residents could not imagine that it was possible to pump water from that depth using power generated directly by highly efficient solar panels, without the need for bulky, expensive, and short-lived batteries.
With your donations, we can expand this project and help other communities in Guinguineo District gain access to clean water. 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 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.
Now that the solar pumping system is in place in the Darou Diadji garden, cooperative members will be able to grow fresh fruit and vegetables for their families and to sell in local markets. Project activities are also underway in the communities of Walo and Gagnick Mack. The Walo cooperative is already harvesting vegetables from their garden – even at the height of Senegal’s dry season. At the Gagnick Mack garden site, CREATE! technicians and community members are busy building water basins and a platform for the water reservoir, in preparation for the upcoming pump installation.
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 Grigsby
CREATE! Grants Coordinator & Project Leader
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