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Tostan Announces Sobel Aziz Ngom as New CEO
Thiès, Senegal- December 15, 2024 - Tostan, a leading non-profit organization catalyzing community-led development in Africa, is pleased to announce...
Could Indigenous Wisdom Hold the Key to the Climate Crisis?
As COP29 concludes in Baku with developed nations pledging at least $300 billion annually for developing countries by 2035, a crucial question...
Fighting Malaria in Guinea-Bissau: How Empowered Communities Are Saving Lives
In the heart of Guinea-Bissau’s Bafata region, a powerful exmple of community-driven change is transforming lives. Thanks to leaders like Maimuna...
African Youth Wellbeing Challenges at the Forefront of the Hearth Summit Thiès
Thiès, September 30, 2024 – From October 7 to 9, 2024, Tostan is hosting the second edition of the Hearth Summit Thiès (Senegal), a wellbeing summit...
Mariatu Cande : Championing Human Rights in Guinea Bissau
In 2021, Mariatu Cande, a dynamic leader from Carauasse in Guinea-Bissau’s Gabu Region, stepped forward as a powerful voice for women’s rights and...
“Listen carefully…Support people to build upon what they already know.”- Cheikh Anta Diop
It all began with a library book. It was May, 1975 and I had recently arrived in Senegal, learning Wolof and studying at the University of Dakar. I...
AMFE, Grow Academy and Tostan launch the « Let’s give them wings » project in Matam
Matam, June 12, 2024 – The Association pour le Maintien des Filles à l'École (AMFE), Grow Academy and Tostan launched the “Donnons-leur des ailes”...
Long-Lasting Social Change From the Bottom-Up
Earlier this year, Elena Bonometti, was featured on an episode of System Catalysts, sharing Tostan's approach to wellbeing and our experiences with...
In Dakatéli, 27 communities proudly declare abandonment of female genital cutting and child marriage
Kédougou, May 26, 2024- On Sunday, twenty-seven communities in the Kédougou region (Southeast Senegal) organised a public declaration to promote...
In Senegal, Daga’s pledge to empower girls in her village
In southern Senegal, Daga Baldé has become a passionate advocate for girls' and women's education. Denied the opportunity to complete her own...
Spotlighting Women and Men, Change Drivers in Tostan’s community partners
In Tostan's community partners in Senegal, Gambia, Mali and Guinea Bissau, many women and men are at the forefront of advances in equal access to...
Tcherno Seide: The Imam Leading the Movement to Abandon FGC in Guinea-Bissau
Tcherno Malam Seide is a young imam who serves as the child protection officer for the Sintchan Alanso community in the Bafatá Region of...
A Teacher’s Journey : Change Through National Languages
In the heart of The Gambia, Muhamadou B. Drammeh, a teacher, had a transformative idea: ‘What if children in his country who have never been to...
Press release: In Thiès, Tostan hosts an inaugural African gathering on Wellbeing
Thiès, November 22, 2023 – From the 29th of November to the 1st of December 2023, Tostan is hosting in Thiès, Senegal, a unique African gathering: The Wellbeing Summit Dakar-Thiès 2023.
