Chamen Village Making Strong Moves towards Ending Abject Rural Poverty!
A Million Thanks to Stiftung Sabab Lou!

Through feasibility study carried out within the Chamen Village community-the Gambia, in May of 2010; CRW e.V. Berlin did uncover a lot of prospects for the community as well as their high aspiration and commitments geared towards the eminent realisation of the current village commercial agricultural production scheme within their village.

Although on spot field analyses were quite encouraging and promising then, the greatest challenge was to put in place a strong and committed implementation and management team-basically a team that would be able to lead the project implementation towards expected results/or impacts-especially those predetermined during the project planning and the feasibility study period.

Exactly one year after the study was conducted and recommendations granted to both Stiftung Sabab Lou (the financing and implementation body) and the beneficiaries; a lot of positive developments have within a very short time transpired within this small rural village in the Gambia:

- Water which was previously a very scarce commodity is now available within the Chamen village for both househousehold consumption and irrigation purposes

-Vegetables can now be produced all-year-round instead of only during the rainny days

-Bee hives have been installed for honey production

- Cashew nuts and Mangos are being planted at a commercial scale for long term income security to the rural farmers-especially to the youths and women

-A sheep fatening facility has been installed

-Rural farmers have acquired training on innovative farming methods

- Chamen village youths for the very first time in their individual and collective lives now have prospects for future employment opportunities within their own community.

Full updates on the current state of the project can be accessed via: http://www.sabab-lou.de/en/projects/chamen-village-project.html