Millet use and monitoring and evaluation in the village

👩🏾‍🌾 How we use effective solutions to impact girls and women in Ndiaganiao, Senegal (Episode 1) 🤔

🕡 In the village of Soussoum (commune of Ndiaganiao in Senegal), spread over several neighborhoods, nearly a thousand girls and women ♀️ are busy from morning to night managing daily tasks: fetching water, collecting cow dung used as fuel, managing children, cleaning, washing, preparing food, managing small animals, etc. .... 🤦🏾‍♀️

To this must be added the work of the millet... ​

🌱 Millet, this gluten-free cereal is nevertheless rich, full of fiber, protein and antioxidants, low on the glycemic index and high in non-digestible carbohydrates. 🐣

🕰️ Nevertheless, to reap the benefits of this ancient food grain, the tasks are numerous and time-consuming.

Hulling, mixing with water and 1st drying, pilling with a mortar or in town at a miller, preparing couscous and cooking... 🦸🏽​

There are countless stages before you can enjoy a good thiéré (millet couscous) or thiakry (curd and millet dessert). 😋

Although millet is eaten three times a day in these Serer farming households in Senegal's Mbour department, it requires a great deal of effort to fulfill its primary nutritional function. 💪🏾​

Millet doesn't kill, but it tires and sickens the girls and women who tend it. 🙅🏾‍♀️️​

With no electricity, no mechanization, and a multitude of daily chores, life quickly becomes an ordeal for the girls and women assigned to these tedious, repetitive tasks. 🙏🏾

🌍 In response to this problem and social demand, the Nadji.Bi Sénégal toured the neighborhoods of Soussoum in the commune of Ndiaganiao to better understand the context in which these rural girls and women live.

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Stay tuned for the rest of this great story Walalma 🚀

Walalma: a project of the Nadji.Bi Sénégal, whose "Connected Solar Center for Rural Women - Walalma 2" in Soussoum was co-financed by l'Agence des Micro-Projets de La Guilde and the Association Argonne-Manengouba

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