By Savina Geerinckx | Project Leader
As I am writing this report, we are impatiently awaiting the results of the presidential elections, which took place in Senegal last Sunday. Whatever the outcome, our hope is that the country will continue to keep young people as a top priority on its agenda.
Update Talibes Cohort 1
At the end of last year our local partner organisation AJE locally secured the needed funds for the building of the chicken coop, and have since taken over the responsibility of the construction work. We are eagerly waiting for the coop to be finished, so we can launch the next phase of the project.
Update Talibes Cohort 2
You may have noticed from a picture in our previous report that our partner, the CIPA agriculture training centre, has been undergoing some major transformations. It will soon be the flagship training centre in the region thanks to the support of KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency). This means that our next cohort will now benefit from brand new classrooms and equipment. The centre has also acquired extra land for training and will soon have its very own bus.
This is a very exciting development, but has no doubt been the cause of some delays in submitting the final proposal for government funding for the next cohort. With further administrative delays most probably linked to the preparations of the presidential elections, it was clear that our next cohort would not be able to start before late spring/ early summer.
For this reason, we decided to postpone our “End of year campaign” and focus our fundraising efforts on the GlobalGiving “Little by Little" campaign which will run from the 8th to the 12th of April 2019. During the campaign, GlobalGiving will be matching donations and giving out bonus prizes, as well as matching new recurring donations. So if you would like to continue supporting our work, please don’t do anything now, but stay tuned…
We look forward to sharing detailed personal testimonies as soon as the coop is up and running!
Thank you for your continued support.
Warm wishes, Savina
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