We are on a roll! It feels appropriate that with the lush growth of another rainy season, so many projects are coming to fruition for Andando.
The inauguration of Seno Bowal Health Post, Andando’s 14th overall.
Our Seno Bowal health post, Andando’s 14th overall, was officially inaugurated on May 10th, and the first baby was born there less than a month later! This post was entirely funded by generous donations from Hub City Church, and we are so proud to be partnering with them to create life saving access to maternal healthcare in rural communities.
Midwives and nurses standing outside the newly renovated health post in Thiemene Taba.
We are thrilled to report that the repairs of our first health post, Thiamene Taba, are complete as well! Altrusa International of Albany helped us to realize this rapid response to the damage that occurred here during the last rainy season, ensuring that this post will continue to serve the area for years to come.
Drilling the borehole in Podor for the new native tree nursery.
In Podor we successfully drilled our first borehole well in the desert last month, which is a crucial milestone towards building our new native tree nursery and agroforestry center. This location will soon produce 50,000 beneficial trees each year thanks to a grant from Rick Steve’s Europe!
Workers frame up the rebar for the concrete aquaculture basin in the Keur Soce High School STEM garden. Construction is nearly complete on our first-ever school garden at Keur Soce High School, which will be the first high school in all of Senegal with an integrated aquaculture training program.
Back in Keur Soce work is nearly finished on our first ever school garden at Andando’s Keur Soce High School, which will be the first high school in all of Senegal with an integrated aquaculture training program. We are still seeking funding to hopefully build a laboratory, classroom, library, and computer lab to continue to support this amazing school.
Breaking ground at Andando’s 40th(!!) garden located in the extremely isolated community of Wouro Kelle.
And last but not least, in the community of Wouro Kelle we just broke ground on Andando’s 40th garden! Wow!! We never could have gotten to this point without the generous support of so many amazing people who partner with us year after year to help the people of Senegal. On behalf of all of our staff and partner communities,