By Kaitlyn Grigsby-Hall | CREATE! Grants Coordinator and Project Leader
Friends,
“CREATE! training programs are important because they teach us new skills and knowledge.” Yacine is a member of the CREATE! agricultural cooperative in the community of Gagnick Mack. She believes that CREATE! “should be a model of development throughout Senegal.”
Thanks to your generosity, the community of Gagnick Mack now has a fully installed solar water pumping system! Members of the village’s agricultural cooperative are thrilled to have access to abundant clean water and are very appreciative of CREATE!’s role in the effort. Women celebrated the pump installation with joyous singing and dancing! The Gagnick Mack garden cooperative is currently growing turnips, eggplants, peppers, African eggplants, okra, lettuce, and tomatoes in their garden site. In October, they harvested 270 pounds of okra and 12 pounds of eggplants. With the pumping system in place, cooperative members can now easily gather water from basins located throughout the garden site. With easier access to water, the Gagnick Mack garden cooperative will be able to greatly increase their vegetable production!
With your donations, we can help other communities in rural Senegal gain access to clean water. Celebrate #GivingTuesday today with a gift to CREATE! Imagine – your donation 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.
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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