With the arrival of spring, the children have enthusiastically resumed their gardening activities at Traversine Villiot. A circular planting bed was then created all around the garden kiosk in order to grow potatoes.The soil was enriched with compost around the … Read More
Much appreciated by residents of the Villiot residence, both for tea and cooking, mint is one of the garden’s essential plants.New plants have been brought in by the association to create a new herb bed.As part of the gardening activity … Read More
During a training day bringing together women from the Popenguine market gardening area with teams from Nebeday and The Ivory Foundation, the focus was on setting up and managing a nursery in the greenhouse.This practical training session, which was filmed … Read More
During a recent monitoring mission in Senegal, near the small village of Dawady, the Designing Hope team discovered an astonishing calebash growing on the roof of a traditional house. In many parts of West Africa, these gourds are harvested, dried … Read More
In Dawady, the farm set up in 2018 by The Ivory Foundation, near the health centre, combines two complementary areas: a shared garden open to nearly 150 women in this small, very isolated town in eastern Senegal, and a garden … Read More
Boulel is one of four villages supported by The Ivory Foundation in setting up market gardens around Dawady. The vegetable garden, established in 2025, now enables many women in the village to be involved in vegetable production. In this remote … Read More
In the greenhouse of the Popenguine women’s collective’s market gardening area, cucumbers were sown directly in the greenhouse on growing beds using the hole technique. The pockets are staggered, about 50 cm apart. This method involves loosening the soil in … Read More
In the vegetable garden, women often use recycled water jerry cans for watering. With the sun and heat, these cans eventually become brittle and disintegrate, and some are left abandoned in the plots.Rather than throwing them away, we have chosen … Read More
To improve the organisation and distribution of locally produced seeds, a precision scale has been made available to the various seed projects. This tool will make it easier to weigh harvests and prepare batches for storage or distribution. This equipment … Read More
Nursery teachers at the school in Saâcy-sur-Marne recently donated several board games to the charity Designing Hope, intended to support the educational activities of projects run by the NGO in Africa. The first batch of these games was sent to … Read More
