2023–24 Report: Andando

2024 donation: $50,000
Donations to date: $80,000

Our donations allowed Andando to add 675 rural Senegalese farming families to their women’s cooperative gardening program, germinate over 15,000 beneficial tree seedlings, construct a Tree Nursery and Agroforestry Center in Podor (including sinking a borehole to provide water security to the facility), and teach climate-smart agriculture practices.

On average, Andando’s 42 women’s gardens yield 500,000 pounds of nutrient-dense, carbon-absorbing produce each year, and generate over $150,000 of profits (supporting 4,000 women and their families) without the use of any pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers. In 2024, Andando added 367 families to their garden program, planted 30,243 beneficial tree saplings, contributed trees and support to Senegal’s National Tree Day, and completed improvements to the solar well system at their tree nursery and agroforestry center in Keur Soce.

With our continued donations, Andando will operate two native tree nurseries in the Kaolack and Podor regions (with plans to reforest 100,000 trees), add 400 families to their program in rural Senegal, fund 200 entrepreneurs through their microloan program, and pilot a reforestation project in the severely degraded pastoral lands of the Diery.