可再生能源和环境适宜技术中心(CREATE!)

可再生能源和环境适当技术中心(CREATE!)成立于2008年，旨在帮助发展中国家的农村人口为气候变化对其社区造成的水、食物和燃料短缺做好准备。创建!运作的原则是所有人都有权获得水、食物、住所、能源和谋生手段。我们与村庄居民合作，通过尊重文化和参与性的进程来满足这些需求，这一进程基于我们的信念，即人们必须在自身发展中享有利益，并为解决自身问题作出贡献。我们受益村的合作小组已经完成了…阅读更多可再生能源和环境适当技术中心(CREATE!)成立于2008年，旨在帮助发展中国家的农村人口为气候变化对其社区造成的水、食物和燃料短缺做好准备。创建!运作的原则是所有人都有权获得水、食物、住所、能源和谋生手段。我们与村庄居民合作，通过尊重文化和参与性的进程来满足这些需求，这一进程基于我们的信念，即人们必须在自身发展中享有利益，并为解决自身问题作出贡献。我们受益村的合作小组已经证明了这一办法的有效性。创建!目前在塞内加尔运营。塞内加尔是许多撒哈拉以南非洲国家的代表，这些国家受到全球气候变化日益严重的灾难性影响的打击最为严重。创建!通过减少对化石燃料的依赖、保护自然资源和增加适当技术的使用等战略，应对气候变化带来的相互关联的危机。 Our programs produce sustainable, human needs-based development at the village level while forging resilient and vibrant communities across rural Senegal. CREATE! seeks to face these challenges and assist rural Senegalese residents with small-scale, accessible, and "appropriate" technologies - technologies that are adapted to, and fit, their local conditions - and with human needs-based strategies that can both better their lives and build their capacity to meet these inter-connected challenges. CREATE! works in six villages in two regions of Senegal. One region is in the rural north of Senegal, centered around Linguere in the Louga Region, where CREATE! implements programs in the village of Ouarkhokh. The other region is in the central-west of Senegal, centered around Gossas in the Fatick Region. CREATE! implements program activities in five villages in this region. The total beneficiary population of the six villages is approximately 12,000 people, comprised of both agricultural and pastoral peoples. The average per capita annual income of the population in these villages is approximately $350 a year. In each of these villages, CREATE! staff work closely with local and traditional authorities, including village chiefs and imams, in addition to other community leaders, families, and public schools. CREATE! values the expertise and input of community members and strives to incorporate their knowledge and participation into each stage of our programs. As a registered NGO in Senegal, CREATE! works with government officials from the regional office of the Department of Water and Forestry. CREATE! also respects the Senegalese government's strategic development goals for rural communities. Although CREATE!'s administrative office is located in the United States, CREATE! relies on local Senegalese staff and volunteers to plan and implement successful development interventions. Barry Wheeler, CREATE! Founder and Executive Director, has spent the past 27 years working to alleviate suffering and to provide basic human needs for rural villagers, displaced persons, and refugees in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. After serving in the Peace Corps for six years as an Improved Cook Stove and Appropriate Technology volunteer, trainer, and technical advisor in Togo, Barry earned a Master's degree in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University. Barry has served as Country Director for the American Refugee Committee's programs in Uganda, Sudan, and Rwanda; as a consultant for UNICEF and UNHCR; and as a team leader and training coordinator in local capacity building, renewable and appropriate technology, and sustainable rural development. CREATE! Chief Operations Officer Louise Ruhr has more than 30 years of private sector and nonprofit management experience and has spent the past eight years working with international NGOs, including the American Refugee Committee, to support women's cooperative groups in Rwanda and Senegal. CREATE! Country Director Omar Ndiaye Seck oversees program activities and conducts site visits in CREATE! communities. He also manages CREATE!'s finances and staff in Senegal. Omar closely collaborates with local and traditional authorities, community volunteers, and CREATE! staff to achieve both organizational and village goals.