Hope and Home
I worked with the NGO SOS Sahel in Senegal to tell the story of desert communities working to build a sustainable future on a front line of climate change.
Published in RPS Journal Winter 2024
Supported by the PA/Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary in 2023
Aminata, the mother of my guide, holds fibrous bark from the village baobab tree that is used to make rope. Villages in Senegal often have a symbiotic relationship with Baobab trees.
Gerald Simpa Dioussé, Technical Agent for the Forests Department, stands before saplings destined for the 'Great Green Wall'
Adama H Diop, Président de l'Unité Pastorale de Labgar, waters newly planted saplings in a new area of the 'Great Green Wall'
A path through burned forest near Kédougou
Coumba Gueye clutches vegetables grown in a community garden at a welcome ceremony
Coumba Gueye clutches vegetables grown in a community garden at a welcome ceremony
A makeshift structure built to protect a young tree from the sun.
Saplings growing in a recently burned garden.
A makeshift structure built to protect a young tree from the sun.
Water in a garden pool that arrived too late to save a crop of Aubergines
A group of women display their produce in community garden near Labgar
A community garden with veils to protect plants from the suns rays
A new crop of Radish at a community garden near Labgar
Amadou with a new crop of Aubergines after his last crop was blighted by drought due to a water pump failure
Women tending a community garden near Podor. This garden is lusher than most gardens in Senegal due to its proximity to the River Podor.
Neem berries growing on a tree in an area protected from roaming animals
A successful crop of onions at a community garden near Podor
New Saplings growing at the Forests Department - destined for the 'Great Green Wall'