Communities in Senegal Embrace Positive Parental Practices

We left the bustling city of Kolda on a warm Saturday afternoon, the road disappearing behind us as we headed toward the remote village of Sare Sounkkarou: one of the 110 communities participating in Tostan’s Reinforcement of Parental Practices (RPP) program this...

Women of West Africa: Finding the Courage to Lead

In the 2014 local elections in a conservative region of eastern Senegal, 63 Tostan program participants were elected as Rural Councilors for that region. 41 of them were women. This film tells the story of one such woman–Fatoumata–and how with the full...

The Power of Radio to End Harmful Practices

At Tostan, we use a process called organized diffusion to help spread information through connected communities, or social networks. This process increases the impact of our programs, spreading new ideas organically from person to person and community to community....