GENSEN programs
Current programs based in GENSEN headquarters |
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Goals |
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Sustainable Village Programs
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Microcredit projects ( > 150) in 40 villages) |
Poverty alleviation and village development |
Senegal Ecovillage Microcredit (SEM) |
Ecovillage Network (45 villages) capacity-building training programs |
Sustainable community development |
Ecovillages, GEN, EcoYoff L&L, US Peace Corps |
Solar ovens, 18 ecovillages |
Renewable energy |
Global Environmental Fund |
Biogass generation, Mbam Ecovillage |
Ministry of Renewable Energy |
PALETTE in primary schools in ecovillages |
cultural preservation, stories and games in school books |
Sarnat/Hoffman Foundation |
Natural resource preservation, Wassacodé ecovillage |
fight against desertification |
Wassacode Ecovillage, formerly with British Embassy Dakar |
reconstruction of schools, wells, homes, salt seawalls, Ecovillage of Oussouye |
Reconstrucion of Casamance villages following civil conflict |
Ajaedo Ecovillage Assn. GTZ and Catholic Relief Services |
EDUCATION FOR ALL, assistance to EV schools in the South (Casamance) and North (Fouta)
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Distribution of books and teaching manuels to primary and middle schools, medicines to health centers, creation of community computer center, campaigns offering free health treatment in border villages |
Central Ecovillages, Ajaedo and Guéde Chantier, Various French donors, Rotary club |
Health Program combatting tuberculosis and malaria |
Supervision and monitoring of health relays relais, community distribution of micronutrients, decentralization of treatment for tuberculosis, creation of community information system with monthly data collection and entry |
Ajaedo
AFRICARE/ACTE/USAID |
Water supply and sanitation |
Providing water and sanitation services to peripheral settlements of Ziguinchor |
PSO (French Programme Solidarité en Eau)/PACT |
Fight against HIV/AIDS |
Awareness creation programs in departments of ziguinchor and Oussouye |
Government of Senegal |
READY FOR SCHOOL: Health, Nutrition and Early Childhood Education
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Research and program design in Integrated Early Child Development |
Baseline research for capacity building in integrated early child development project, including adaptation and use of Bayley infant and young child development test in designing programs to prepare school success |
NGO Plan International |
Education Offered by GENSEN EcoYoff Living & Learning Center
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Ecovillage training of trainers/ action learning/research in community sustainability |
Holistic living & learning, action research improving community and environment |
GEN, villages, diverse donors, tuitions and fees |
| 2 semester programs a year |
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Living Routes Study Abroad in Ecovillages, UMass Amherst, Student tuitions |
| Annual January Term |
Three week course in microcredit |
Internships and volunteer opportunities in ecovillages
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Holistic living & learning, research and service improving community and environment |
Interns, volunteers and their sponsors |
| Language and culture lessons and leisure cultural and ecotourism activities |
Ecotourists and Dakar residents |
GENSEN and L&L staff |
