It never ceases to amaze me how quickly projects can progress once the preparations are in place and the funding arrives. We have a truly stellar team in Senegal, so it didn’t take long to move from breaking ground to opening the doors of our newest rural health center in the village of Mbida. I had the great pleasure of attending the opening ceremony on July 3rd and shortly thereafter the first baby was born there, a little boy whose healthy birth underlines the importance of this resource and the hope and peace of mind that it brings.
The entire village of Mbida, along with representatives from the regional Health Authority in Podor, turned out to celebrate the Grand Opening of the new health center.
More great news out of the Podor region where we are moving forward with the deep borehole well in our partner village of Senobowal. We announced this project in the article “Water for Aida” and have since raised almost half of our funding goal! This means that we can complete the borehole and solar pump system which will bring clean water to over 5,000 people. We still need more support though to add a women’s garden so please check out our GoFundMe campaign and help to spread the word about this amazing project.
Our partners in Senobowal met with Andando recently in the shade of their health center to finalize details for the borehole and garden.
In the first expansion of our pilot Aquaculture project, we recently broke ground on two new sets of fish basins in our Mboyo Walo and Mbantou Croissement partner gardens. Both gardens worked hard to join the project and we can’t wait to see the joy it will bring when they harvest their first fish right out of their own garden. We hope to expand this project in the coming years so more of our partners can gain access to improved nutrition and income.
Construction is nearly complete on our new aquaculture basins with fish set to arrive in October!
Andando is growing all the time, but we are still nimble and responsive to funding. Your support makes a difference and allows us to move projects like these forward to make an immediate difference in the lives of rural families in Senegal.