Hope and home
Amid dreams of space colonisation, desert communities in the Sahel are working to preserve humanity’s future here on Earth.
Text by Rachel Segal Hamilton
Supported by the TPA/RPS Environmental Bursary 2023
With thanks to SOS Sahel
community garden near Labgar
Woman with rope made from Baobab Tree Bark. Many Sahel communities are centred around these monumental trees, whose bark and fruit offer many Indigenous remedies, traditions, and folklore.
A community garden near Labgar in Northern Senegal
Gerald Simpa Dioussé, Technical agent for Eaux et Forêts et Chasse, stands by saplings destined to be planted in the ‘Great Green Wall’
Path through burned land. Tambacounda
Young trees inside a protected area of the 'Great Green Wall'. Pastoral scenes like this do not exist outside these fenced off areas as animals eat the grass and strip the young trees of their bark.
Keeper of a village Baobab tree. In many villages in Senegal, Baobab and Palm trees will have a symbiotic relationship with a human keeper.
School garden near Kedougou
Adama H Diop, Président de l'Unité Pastorale de Labgar stands by new irrigation channels dug in a new section of the 'Great Green Wall'
