Tag: Atelier
The final conference of the Watigueleya Kèlê project in Conakry, 13-14 February 2023
On 13 and 14 February, the final conference of the Watigueleya Kêlè (Climate Resilience in West Africa) project on the theme “Poetics of the environment and resilience of research” started in Conakry, at the CIRD facilities. The conference aimed to bring together villagers involved in the project and researchers, in order to bridge the gap between the academic sphere and
Tambacounda Advocacy Workshop (Senegal), January 2023
From 9 to 12 January 2023, an advocacy workshop organised within the framework of the Watigueleya Kêlé project took place in Tambacounda (Senegal). This workshop brought together delegates from the three Senegalese villages participating in the project (Bandafassi, Missirah Tabadiang, and Wassadou-Dépôt), supervised by the Donkosira team, and the advocacy expert Illia Djadi. The objective of the workshop was to
The Bamako Game Jam, 19-22 December 2022
The Bamako Game Jam, 19-22 December 2022 The twenty villagers participating in the Djonya Kêlè Ja Toulon project met from 19 to 22 December in Bamako for the final workshop, a Game Jam organised in partnership with Jiwe Studios (Kenya). Jiwe accompanied them to deepen their knowledge of video games in order to design a game about descent-based slavery. Various
The theatre tour about climate change in the Kayes region, November 2022
From 31 October to 4 November 2022, the Donkosira team and four villages in the Kayes region participating in the Watigueleya Kèlê project (Monzona, Bouillagui, Bougarila and Banzana) organised a theatre tour on climate change in Mali. The objective of the tour was to raise awareness and discuss the impacts of climate change with villagers through sketches prepared at the
Newsletter #5 – Introduction
This spring newsletter is largely dominated by the activities of the last workshop that took place in Damaro (Guinea), from 28 February to 3 March 2022. All the village communication relays were able to gather again, discuss their latest reports and above all take part in a theatre workshop led by the Malian theatre specialist Aboubacar Diarra. Statistical reports of
“The Workshop in Bandafassi, Senegal: Highlights”, May 2021
Video montages of highlights from the Watigeuleya Kèlê programme workshop in Bandafassi. Visit to the Ethiour village in Bandafassi (Senegal) Statements on the Bandafassi workshop (Senegal) Reporting on the Bandafassi workshop (Senegal)
“The Niger River and Climate Change – Bamako 9 December 2021”
The first workshop of the WATIGUELEYA KÈLÊ project was successfully concluded on 10 December 2020 in Bamako after five days of intensive training. The event brought together 20 village partners from Mali, Senegal and Guinea – the three countries targeted by the project. The aim was to train these village partners to use mobile phones to collect local knowledge and