What do your holiday traditions look like? Across cultures, many traditions begin and center around cooking and food. In several weeks, families and friends will be gathering to celebrate Christmas here in the US and in many other parts of the world, cooking up delicious feasts and spending time with one another to celebrate the end of 2020 and the beginning of a new year. For most rural villages in Senegal, chicken is eaten for holidays and special occasions because of its high price in both money and time. For the community of Yougouré, feeding your family poultry meant leaving your children ..read more

Recently, the communities of Mbossedji and Yougouré built their first poultry sheds, completing the next step towards developing self-sufficiency. Through training and assistance from CREATE!’s technicians, cooperative members can pursue their shared economic ambitions. Women are learning how to care for the chickens as they grow and then sell the grown chickens in the weekly market and in other nearby communities. Women will also be able to supplement the diets of their families with the chicken that they raise themselves. “We used to eat chicken very rarely because it was expensive. We recen ..read more

This year, five of our partner communities achieved a huge milestone in their self-development programs when they started poultry raising projects. CREATE!’s community development programs focus on improving access to water, increasing food security, and creating more income generational opportunities. Raising poultry is one of the last projects, which means these communities are well on their way to become self-sustainable! Birame’s Story One of the five communities that started poultry raising is Wereyane. Ndeye Birame Signane is a young woman who grew up in this village. She is aware of the ..read more

Recently, five of our partners communities started building their poultry sheds in the first quarter of 2019. In our 5-year development model, poultry raising is one of the later projects. This is a big milestone for the communities of Wereyane, Santhie, Mboss, Back Samba Dior, and Keur Daouda because this project will help take them even further along the path of income generation and overall self-sufficiency! Poultry shed being built in Wereyane. Entering A New Phase of Development Learning to raise poultry means that women are not only able to bring an important source of protein into their ..read more