50000 trees/year for a self-reliant rural Senegal

Senegal, thanks to its geographical position, its climatic and geological assets, abounds in a great diversity of vegetal species. During the last decades, a strong desecration is endangering the biomass as a whole 

To fight against deforestation, CREATE! organizes an annual reforestation campaign in all the communities where it intervenes.

So, this program has allowed rural populations to emphasize the importance of reforestation. These planted trees provide important income generation and play an important role in nutrition, health and mitigation.

They can be planted in orchards, in concessions or in gardens where they can provide fruit, leaves, shade...

This can be demonstrated through the illustrations below.

Photo 1: Moringa oleifera is a tree with multiple virtues that resists drought and adapts to all types of soil. Moreover, Moringa oleifera is an excellent food supplement and at the same time an income generation for the direct beneficiaries.

Photo 2: The Carica papaya shown in this illustration is one of the most coveted fruit trees in the CREATE! sites. Currently, rural Senegal, particularly the CREATE! intervention areas are endowed with these hasty and productive fruit trees, which are not well known in these remote areas, and which not only provide them income generation but also vary their diet. This fruit-growing activity is not limited to the mitigation of greenhouse gases due to climate change but contributes to pro-nutrition (eating what you produce) for the benefit of direct and indirect beneficiaries.   

Photo 3: We stay focused on the species Carica papaya in the rural world and its production which participates massively in the food diversification of people who produce them and the populations surrounding the production sites (indirect beneficiaries).

As an example, we have on this picture the CREATE team! appreciating a tree in full production with different stages of fruit ripening among many other trees in the site.

Photo 4: After hours of hard work in the site, here is a group of direct beneficiaries sharing some Carica papaya fruit for energy resourcing.

Indeed, the fruit trees such as this species taken in focus this time on our publications (the Carica papaya) by its intensive production allows the beneficiaries to feed themselves freely in a constant way of this production. In addition, anyone outside the direct beneficiaries will have to pay for the fruit before consuming it. So the fruits trees production is an income generation for directs beneficiaries.