Context
For many years now, the consequences of climate change have been a visible reality in Senegal. The rainy season is arriving later and shorter. The country is also faced with poor waste management, leading to soil and water pollution, ecosystem degradation, the release of greenhouse gases and serious health problems. Added to this is malnutrition. According to UNICEF, in 2021, 19.3% of Senegalese children under the age of five were suffering from acute malnutrition and 32.5% from chronic malnutrition.
Poverty, inadequate diet, poor health, household food insecurity and an unsanitary environment are all very real problems in Senegal. Faced with these realities, the UCAD students decided to take action to improve children’s access to healthy, nutritious, quality food, through self-production of food in schools.
Supervised by our teams in Mbour and Brussels, the project also includes a global citizenship education component for students from the Plant Biology Department of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), who will be leading workshops in classrooms to raise awareness of the environment, waste management and nutrition, as well as enjoying a rich intercultural experience.
