Senegal
![Unsplash (CC License) The current president, Macky Sall, has announced that he will not be running for a third term as the president of the country.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/victor-rutka-ifat3avzpe8-unsplash.jpg?itok=W4iUm8dw&c=84f8d9132975b585a10c9738a8b428f7)
Lamine Sarr talk about Macky Sall's decision, who has announced that he will not run for re-election following popular pressure and the serious protests that the country has experienced.
![For a Smile in Africa Mario Llonch promoted For a Smile in Africa, which focuses its work in Senegal.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/por_una_sonrisa_3_0.jpg?itok=WlNf1f1E&c=5e2cb58daa5bee72d9a21f7c1037e5cb)
We go over the tasks entities do in the African country, which has a community with approximately 30.000 people in Catalonia and it's one of the most important countries for the Catalan cooperation.
![Teranga XamXamLab center wants to be a lab of knowledge for the youth of Rufisque.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/xam_xam_lab.jpeg?itok=lIMhY8Qi&c=03fdf1b633b02371ced981b2a65a709c)
The association from Molins de Rei, Teranga, colaborates in the construction and opening of a multifunctional center in order to educate and encourage the job placement of the young people from this city in Senegal
![For a Smile in Africa Foundation Mario Llonch is the founder and president of the For a Smile in Africa Foundation.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/por_una_sonrisa_0.jpg?itok=XY1aDmVZ&c=eb69cad0c7dfef82c61f63447cab453f)
The For a Smile in Africa Foundation (Por por sonrisa en Africa) has been focusing for two decades on improving the lives of young people and families in rural Senegal through education.
![Guné Foundation. Demonstration of girls for an education with a gender perspective in Kolda.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/img_20220330_083810_374.jpg?itok=iKgme-u_&c=370727773c7924251e57a3e6176b4d42)
The Fundació Guné has developed a project there to work on the gender perspective at schools with the aim of extending this experience to the whole of society.
![Ocularis Armand Valera is the director of Ocularis.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/visual_health_3_0.jpg?itok=IXrN9i3s&c=03fdf1b633b02371ced981b2a65a709c)
We spoke to the director of the NGO Ocularis, which is focusing its efforts on improving the visual health of the countries of the global South through training.
![ProActiva Open Arms. The pilot project Origen of the NGO ProActiva Open Arms has the main goal of informing the local population of the risks of migrating.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/captura_de_pantalla_2021-06-18_093037.jpg?itok=VKALoP6p&c=9cb17253dffd663897278a10d8c5be1d)
Proactiva Open Arms launched the project Origen because many people rescued at sea expressed the idea that had they received more information they wouldn’t have embarked on the journey.
![CC Licence The fruit of the baobab is a superfood from which a powder with great health benefits is extracted.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/entrepreneurship_in_senegal_3.jpeg?itok=cLZ570dF&c=44396ee9496b461901a6c500d880159c)
Monkey bread, which comes from the baobab, is a superfood grown in Senegal from which a powder with great health benefits is extracted. The women of Boundou are leading this sustainable entrepreneurship project, which will benefit 700 families in the nature reserve.
![Babel Foundation. The Babel Foundation is working to educate children in Senegal.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/la_fundacio_babel_vetlla_i_treballa_per_lescolaritzacio_dels_nens_i_nenes_al_senegal._font-_fundacio_babel_.jpeg?itok=8NGqaeom)
During the crisis of the Covid-19, the entity wants to ensure the maintenance of the teachers’ job posts in Kalasans School, Dakar.
![Caldes Solidària Josep Artigas is living in Senegal since 1977 providing education to children and teenagers.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/josepartigas.jpg?itok=uj1TTr1K&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
The Piarist father considers that cooperation organizations should monitor closely the projects implemented on the ground to ensure “they are in place for more than just 3 or 4 years”.
![construction of the third phase of the school](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/17.10-construccio-3a-fase-4.jpeg?itok=nLHcHmvd)
The initiative will take place on December 22 and 23 in Mataró to raise funds and get high school and high school education for all children and youth in the neighborhood of 'Thiaroye'.
![Thanks to the Jane Goodall Institute in Catalonia and the Esperanza Project, the remote village of Sahoro improves its permanent access to water.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/1._ijge.jpeg?itok=D90J5aHF)
Thanks to the Jane Goodall Institute in Catalonia and the Esperanza Project, the remote village of Sahoro improves its permanent access to water with the construction of a new well.