Charity Committee

CFF runs a vocational training center for vulnerable girls and women. They offer sewing, cooking and computer training courses in order to foster their employability.

DWG financed full kitchen equipment, and new sewing machines in order to hold vocational training sessions for a large number of vulnerable girls/women.

The GIE "Réseau des femmes de Djiddah Thiaroye Kao" was founded in 2004 in order to promote the empowerment of vulnerable women and children with a view to promoting the socio-economic development of its members. It brings together women from the department of Pikine who work to improve their social and economic conditions.  It is made up of more than 100 members.

The group of 50 women working in cereal transformation needed urgently to replace their obsolete cereal mill. DWG financed a new mill.

This school in Pikine has initiated an environmental education and sensibilisation program by offering practical education (gardening, plant knowledge, composting, waste treatment and reduction,...) to their pupils. 

DWG supports the creation of a micro-farming experience, a composting area, a micro-garden (medicinal plants), and the organisation of practical workshops, visits and training sessions for pupils and parents.

This clinic helps vulnerable patients with incurable diseases like diabetes, terminal phases cancer. They also have a vehicle to attend patients in poor neighborhoods. DWG funded urgent medical supplies to treat foot injuries due to diabetes.

École Saint Jean de Baptiste de Malika was created in 2013 by the director who is a teacher. They have 219 pupils in 9 classrooms and one nursery. Two classrooms don’t have walls or doors and are in hallways, this generates noise and disturbs the other pupils. There is no canteen – they eat in the hallway. There are four toilets.

DWG supported the building of 3 classrooms, 2 toilets and one canteen on the rooftop.

Federation Senegalaise des Habitants is a national association that operates in different parts of Senegal. Their aim is to improve access to facilities and the life of senegalaise inhabitants, especially in poor neighborhoods.

This project is situated in Pikine. DWG funded the renovation of a playground that was totally unusable with rusted and dangerous structures for the children.

This community school based in sicap Mbao caters to children excluded from the public system because they have no birth certificate; they generally come from daaras. The school helps them get papers and attain the required level of knowledge so that they could pass the entrance exam to state lower secondary schools. The school building is in a very poor neighborhood.

DWG funded painting of the school, implementing doors to secure the area, and equipping classrooms with chairs and benches.

The Centre de Santé Keru Yakaar in Grand Yoff  is a non-profit healthcare center which offers services such as medical consultations, monitoring of pregnant women, detection and treatment of child malnutrition.

DWG financed the purchase of equipment necessary for the good running of their services (examination table, otoscope, tensiometer, fridge for medicines…).

Women in this GIE are producing local cereals.

DWG financed a millet mill to improve their working conditions and reduce their costs.

Settled at the House of Community Organizations of Diamaguene Sicap Mbao, the professional training center aims to train young girls excluded from the school system and in precarious situations including illiterate and disabled girls. DWG financed the purchase of new sewing machines.

This association is based in Goree and is setting up educational and artistic activities for local children (between 4 and 18 years old). The project has partnered with educational institutions such as schools and nurseries in Gorée and Dakar to encourage reading from an early age and spark a love of books in children.

DWG funded the purchase of new books and educational kits.

This school based in Diamaguene Sicap Mbao teaches 142 students. They urgently needed to renovate and built new sanitaires.

DWG funded the building of new toilets.

Association Nationale des Postes de Santé Catholiques du Sénégal, provides healthcare to low-income population in Guediawaye. A separate part is dedicated to nutrition – mainly treating malnourished babies and educating mothers so that they could feed them properly afterwards.

DWG financed a mill to grind the cereals that they use to feed malnourished children.