I. COOPERATION BETWEEN PARTNERS 1. First and foremost, we want to say that ChildFund Senegal and the Federations have been most cooperative with Options Senegal. For example: 1 a. After each training, the Options Senegal trainers (Malick Fall and Ibrahima Ba) and the Options Senegal managers (Jaryd Kase and Walter Coddington) discussed and agreed upon [...]
IMCEC Microfinance Bank On-board
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
EN/FR. January 30, 2012 – The Senegalese microfinance institution, Union des Institutions Mutualistes Communautaires d’Epargne et de Crédit (U-IMCEC) signed a memorandum of understanding today to provide access to financing and set up savings accounts for GIEs and GIE members in the Options Senegal Ecolign Entrepreneurial Program. U-IMCEC was formed in 1997 by ChildFund Senegal [...]
Options Senegal Thies Headquarters
January 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
Two weeks ago, we moved from our temporary office in Dakar to a more permanent location in Thies. At the roughly 2,000 sq. ft. Thies Headquarters, we will also temporarily locate an Ecolign Mini-plant (small-scale blending and bottling operation). We’ll move the Mini-plant to a larger location after we determine how much product production and [...]
Vote for one!
January 14, 2012 By 12 Comments
Please take a moment and pick the poster you think is best for use by Ecolign sales reps in the market place. Keep in mind three things: 1. EcoLign is a new product. 2. A poster can’t say everything; the sales rep will be there (by the poster) to answer questions and fill in the [...]
Progress Report 002, 12Jan12
January 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
November 28 to January 12, 2012. Partnership. Over the past three months, since the US contingent of the Options Senegal development team has been “on the ground” here in Senegal, we have developed a deep respect for the work of the local Federations and Associations that ChildFund International and ChildFund Senegal support and have organized [...]
EcoLign Training Program: Module I
January 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
For partner comment and reference by Ecolign Sales Trainees, there is a link on this blog in the “Blogroll” box (lower right hand side of the home page) to a PowerPoint presentation that accompanies the first Module of the Ecolign Business Training Program. Or, you can click on the link below to download and view [...]
Christmas in Thiès
January 9, 2012 By 2 Comments
EN/FR. The Options Senegal team was invited to participate in the ChildFund and Kajoor Jankeen Federation annual Christmas party. Two-hundred seventy-five children from the Thiès area received a gift each presented by such dignitaries as Valentin Faye (photo bottom left), the Federation President. Options Sénégal a été convié à la cérémonie de l’arbre de Noel [...]
EcoLign Back Packing
January 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
In suburban and rural markets, EcoLign reps dispense 30 to 60 ml of concentrate from the EcoLign Back Pack into a householder’s recycled bottle . The householder adds the water to make ready-to-use Multi-surface, Glass and Window and/or Peroxide Cleaner.
Options Senegal: the Second Life
January 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
Options Senegal has begun using the Second Life game platform on the Internet to model new EcoLign promotional materials and to train EcoLign salespeople on an ongoing basis. Currently, only about 25% of the trainees have access to a computer and the Internet. We’ll work on increasing that percentage.
Deeper into Senegal: Baol
January 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
Last week we were in Baol, in the Diourbel region of Senegal. The 140-kilometer drive takes 3 hours if you leave Dakar at 5:00 in the morning and six hours stuck in traffic if you leave any later than that. Baol is considerably smaller than Thiès and Mbour, with a population of approximately 100,000 people [...]
