During a community consultation between Diane and the local mothers, in 2018, with Adama leading and translating, the women said that their most important need was to be able to earn money so they could send their children to school after nursery.
They wanted to start their own enterprise or business project, based at the school. They lacked business training and capital. They agreed that they had to work together, it couldn’t be something a women did to benefit just her own family and took home with her. It would need to benefit the school and help develop it, as well as helping them.
Some ideas they had were: making skin creams, fruit juices, clothes, pretty soaps, tie-dying materials and processing, drying and packaging moringa or loofah sponges which grow wild.
The charity fundraised and worked in partnership with My Farm to provide training and start up capital and in 2019 the women developed a soap making project.
Since the pandemic in 2020, this has not been resumed so is currently not active.
Ceesay Nursery School 