Location Dom Dek Village and Commune, Saut Nikum District, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia Community Description Dom Dek is located about 30 km outside of Siem Reap town, along the main highway. There are just over 100,000 people in the larger commune area, most of whom work as farmers. Despite being so close to the Angkor […]
Location Medina Njama, Jokadou District, North Bank Region, The Gambia Community Description Medina Njama is a small community of 20 family compounds totaling around 450 people, in the Jokadou district of the North Bank Region, The Gambia. The village is a multi-ethnic community consisting primarily of Wolofs, but there are a few Fula compounds as […]
Location Aldea El Sitan, Patzicia, Chimaltenango, Guatemala Community Description El Sitan is a small village that is part of the town of Patzicia, with approximately 1,000 inhabitants. The main source of income for the community is agriculture. There is one official school and one preschool. The village is located approximately 3 km away from the […]
Location Village of Goundaga, Community Rural Kandiaye, Department of Velingara, Region of Kolda, Senegal Community Description Goundaga is a village of about 500 people in southern Senegal. The village lacks access to running water and electricity. The community’s economic base is agriculture, specifically focused on peanuts, cotton, millet, and rice. The village has a health […]
Location Sare Sawadi, Fulladu West, Central River Region – South Bank, The Gambia Community Description The village of Sare Sawadi is a small Fula community of 175 people located twelve kilometers from the town of Bansang. The villagers farm groundnuts, coos, rice and cassava. Water sources in the village include one hand pump and one […]
Location Savannah area in Ndivisi Location, Magemo Sub-Location, Webuye Division, Bungoma East District, Western Province, Kenya Community Description The Savannah community consists of approximately six-thousand people across six rural villages (Makhese village, Matoma village, Savannah A village, Savannah B village, and Tete village). It is an agricultural-based community with a very limited infrastructure: it has […]
Location Annex of Kedougou, Region of Kedougou, Senegal Community Description Kedougou is the largest town in the Region of Kedougou, 420 miles southwest of Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The community has experienced rapid growth in the past few years, with the discovery of gold 60 miles north of the town creating a migration to […]
Location Karang Poste, Fatick Region, Senegal, West Africa Community Description Karang Poste, with a population of 12,000, is a quickly growing town in the region of Fatick, approximately 2 kilometers from the border of The Gambia. The major local language spoken is Wolof, but there are strong influences of Mandinka, Pulaar, Sereer, and other dialects […]
Location Volodymyrivka, Mykolaviska Oblast, Ukraine Community Description Volodymyrivka is a town of 1,500 people located in the Mykolavi oblast in the south central region of Ukraine. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, it had a thriving population of 5,000 people with five schools and many factories in operation and was the regional center of […]
Location Canton El Coco, Municipio Chalchuapa, Departmento Santa Ana, El Salvador Community Description Area Natural Protegida La Magdalena is a 1,900-acre national forest reserve in western El Salvador consisting primarily of Volcano El Chingo and forming a part of the Salvadoran border with Guatemala. It is home to 119 species of trees, 158 types of […]