Our Partnership with CREATE!

The annual dry season in Senegal is long, so small-scale farmers have just 3 months to grow food when the rains come. Climate change has exacerbated this challenge, resulting in decreased rainfall, longer periods of drought, and desertification.  With less time and land to grow food, many farmers focus on cultivating cash crops rather than nutritious foods to sustain their families. As a result, 17% of people in Senegal are food insecure, and 66% of children under age 5 are micronutrient deficient.

One Day’s Wages partnered with CREATE! to bring clean, abundant, and affordable water to rural communities in Senegal’s Fatick-Kaolack Region so that farmers can grow fresh vegetables all year long.  Existing wells were rehabilitated and fitted with solar pumps and gravity-fed irrigation systems, and members of agricultural cooperatives in Ndiagne Kahone and Keur Ndiouga learned improved methods of organic vegetable cultivation.  As a result, the farmers were able to begin producing up to 1,900 pounds of vegetables each month, and earn an average of $17 per month!  Through our partnership, rural farmers with generations of agricultural knowledge gained new opportunities to grow enough nutritious foods for their families.