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
Wouro Hama fait partie des quatre villages situés en périphérie de Dawady soutenus par The Ivory Foundation et Kaicedrat pour la mise en place de périmètres maraîchers. Installé en 2025, le potager du village entame aujourd’hui sa deuxième saison de … 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 Dawady’s shared garden, located next to the health centre, nearly 150 women from the village work together to cultivate different plots throughout the year. After several months of production and a recent harvest of various vegetables, the gardeners have … Read More
The village of Senthiou Maka, located near the Bala health centre in Senegal, was one of the most dynamic market gardening areas supported by The Ivory Foundation as part of its collaboration with Kaicedrat and the Fondation pour une Maternité … 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
After a difficult period caused by a pump failure that discouraged many women in the collective, the Popenguine market gardening area is regaining momentum. With access to water now restored, teams from Nebeday and The Ivory Foundation spent three days … 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
