Seynabou MBENGUE is a gender and development facilitator in rural and peri-urban areas. She works for entrepreneurship and women's empowerment. The “The Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations of Senegal” was set up in 1976 by seven leaders of farmers' associations who wanted to create a farmers' movement capable of defending the interests of rural people and acting as a force for change.
FNGOS – Peasant Action is a Senegalese NGO that mobilizes 31 associations and, through them, over 3,000 village groups, themselves representing almost 120,000 members. Active on family farms, these members cover all agro-sylvo-pastoral sectors, and their associations are located in different areas, covering 35 of Senegal’s 45 departments. Rural women face a number of problems: domestic violence, early marriage, rape, lack of basic infrastructure (lighting, toilets, difficulties in marketing agro-sylvo-pastoral and fishery products, lack of financing for agricultural product processing activities). The FONGS association aims to tackle these problems and thus combat extreme poverty.
