By Kaitlyn Grigsby-Hall | CREATE! Grants Manager and Project Leader
The last two months have been very busy! With your support, CREATE! is expanding our partnerships to two new communities in Senegal’s Louga Region. By providing access to abundant, affordable water and training from CREATE! field technicians, we can work together to help these villages achieve agriculture and economic self-sufficiency.
In July and August, CREATE! field technicians worked with community volunteers to rehabilitate existing wells and install solar-powered water pumps and gravity-fed irrigation systems in the Santhie and Dahra garden sites. Now that access to clean, abundant, and affordable water is secured in these communities, CREATE!’s field technicians are beginning to teach women how to grow irrigated vegetable crops.
In CREATE!’s other partner communities, cooperative members continue to expertly tend their flourishing vegetable gardens. The Fass Kane cooperative harvested hundreds of pounds of vegetables over the past two months. Ndeye of Fass Koffe has been part of the Fass Kane cooperative for the past six years and says, “With the knowledge that I have learned from CREATE! field technicians, I can now support myself forever!”
In July – at the height of the annual rainy season – CREATE! partner communities planted over 11,000 trees as part of our annual tree planting campaign. Trees provide shade, moderate temperatures, and produce fruit and nuts. In addition to planting trees in their garden sites, cooperative members also distributed tree seedlings to families throughout their communities. Sophie of Fass Koffe says, “With the tree planting program, we all now have shade to sit under while it’s hot.” CREATE!’s tree planting campaign would be impossible without ongoing access to abundant water from rehabilitated wells to nourish growing tree seedlings.
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