These women are members of a group organized in the community of Fass in northern Senegal. With guidance from CREATE! this group took advantage of the short rainy season to plant eggplants and melons in their community garden, and they have now begun to reap the benefits of their efforts.
The women say that the harvest gives them hope, and that CREATE! is different from other organizations that have come to their village because of the ways in which we have involved the community in planning and implementing projects very quickly.
Toutane Diagne, one of the elders of the group, says “It is important for us to make this project successful through our own efforts. We cannot expect donors just to give us things, and CREATE! encourages us to mobilize even small contributions from the community to meet our own needs. For example, when we decided to build a reservoir, the community provided the labor and CREATE! contributed cement, chicken wire and iron bars. Now we have a beautiful reservoir and everybody is happy. We wish that god will bless you and our operation.”
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