We Talk. We Unite. We Heal.
We Talk.
We Unite.
We Heal.
WASSOR Womanity is a Senegalese-led organisation working at the intersection of mental health, women's economic empowerment, and community-led development. We don't bring solutions from outside. We build with what already exists.
People reached through our awareness and training work
Active programmes in Senegal — Dakar, Casamance, Touba
App usability testers in current GCC-funded study
Intermediaries to be trained in 2026
A grassroots organisation with global reach
WASSOR Womanity was founded by Bineta Gueye Thiam, a psychologist with lived experience of the realities faced by women in Senegal. We are a team of Senegalese professionals working across psychology, community development, research, and social action — in partnership with academic institutions including the University of East London and with support from Grand Challenges Canada. We are not an organisation that arrives with a model and asks communities to fit into it. We work from the inside out: recognising what already exists, formalising it, and building the infrastructure for it to sustain itself.
Three programmes. One commitment.
WASSOR works across three interconnected areas, each grounded in the same principle: community knowledge is the asset, and structural recognition is the intervention.
Empower Minds
A Grand Challenges Canada-funded mental health app for youth in Senegal, combining an AI-powered chatbot, validated screening tools, and culturally adapted psychosocial support. Deployed on Android and iOS. Currently in usability testing with 114 young people across Dakar, Saint-Louis, and Kolda.
Learn moreWomanity — Casamance
An integrated programme in Sédhiou Department: a women's agricultural cooperative built on the existing kafoo collective structures, a maternal health post in Maranda, and psychosocial programming embedded within it. Climate adaptation, land sovereignty, and community health, in Bounkilin — held together.
Learn moreWomanity — Touba
A therapeutic community for widows in the Diourbel Region, built around the Mouride ethic of jél-jéf (collective labour and mutual obligation). Not a clinic. A living community infrastructure where women grieve, work, and rebuild together.
Learn moreOur Community in Action
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Our Collaborators and Sponsors
WASSOR works in partnership with Grand Challenges Canada, Carelf UK, the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale du Sénégal, CNOSP, and a growing network of community organisations, health institutions, and NGOs across Senegal.
