NGO Programs

GENSEN programs

 

Current programs based in GENSEN headquarters

 

Programs & Projects
Goals

Current partners

 

Sustainable Village Programs

 

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)

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

 

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

 

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 Living Routes Study Abroad in Ecovillages, UMass Amherst, Student tuitions
Annual January Term Three week course in microcredit
Internships and volunteer opportunities in ecovillages
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