By Kaitlyn Grigsby-Hall | CREATE! Grants Manager & Project Leader
Friends,
Thanks to your support, hundreds of families in rural Senegal now have clean, abundant, and affordable water! As in all of CREATE!’s partner communities, soon the villages of Keur Daouda and Back Samba Dior will have access to abundant water to help cooperative gardens thrive and ensure 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.
Even at the height of the dry season, cooperative groups in Keur Daouda are expanding their vegetable production. Women are learning new agricultural skills such as transplanting vegetable seedlings and proper watering and weeding techniques. The cooperative is already harvesting okra, turnips, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce to bring home to their families and to sell in local markets.
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, Diarra says, “With access to clean water, it is now possible for us to grow vegetables throughout the year. For the past two years, since we first partnered with CREATE!, we have been eating fresh, nutritious vegetables grown in our village.”
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Best wishes,
Kaitlyn
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