Nutrition Without Borders promotes a key project for the socioeconomic empowerment of rural women in Velingara (Senegal)

The NGO Nutrició Sense Fronteres, in collaboration with the City Council of Teror and the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (FECAM), have launched a new international cooperation project aimed at the socioeconomic empowerment of rural women in Senegal, who are essential to food production and face barriers to accessing resources, technical training and financing.

This project is being implemented in the communities of Chakan Neighborhood, Velingara, within the Kolda Region. This rural area is characterized by a subsistence agricultural economy with a high incidence of food insecurity and poverty.

The initiative is managed by the local Women’s Association Jokere Edam and has begun to deploy training and awareness-raising activities.

The main objective is to strengthen the capacities of 25 women in agroecological production, cooperative management and product marketing in order to improve the food security of their families and increase community income.

Among the initial activities that have been promoted are workshops on soil preparation, crop rotation and efficient irrigation, as well as the provision of tools and the creation of a cooperative for the collective management of production.

It aims to respond to needs directly and at the same time reaffirms the commitment of the parties involved to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (1, 2, 5, 12, 13), especially with the fight against poverty, hunger and gender inequality.

It is expected that the intervention will generate an impact that improves the employment opportunities of the women of Velingara, by increasing their economic autonomy and the food security of local families.

The director of Nutrition Without Borders Núria Camps and Maimouna Sabaly visited Velingara in August, met with the Jokere Edam Women's Association to plan the project's momentum and toured the agricultural community spaces to be plowed. Over the past few months we have been able to see that they were already learning and applying agroecological farming techniques. It can be confirmed that the project is progressing correctly, the training is being started by an agronomist technician and the images show the enthusiasm and strong involvement of the women as they are aware that they are becoming the main actors of change.

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