Tabax Subë

The world that our children inherit is being built today …and we are responsible for building it.   Tabax Subë ("to build tomorrow" in Wolof) is designed to facilitate our doing so.

Tabax Subë describes our role, mission, and process. Tabax Subë executes low-overhead, resident-driven operations through high energy activities to produce sustainable people-centered results.   

Tabax Subë’s principal project  sites are in the Village of Camberene, a semi-autonomous jurisdiction and Guediawaye, a municipal sub-division. Both are located in Dakar, Senegal.  A secondary project site is located in the fishing village of Bargny, located about 15 miles from Dakar, near the City of Rufisque. Tabax Subë exemplifies the multi-dimensional partnership that connects The Obsidian, Fondation Tabax Subë (FTS), with Senegalese communities and their residents. Tabax Subë creates a venue for authentic interaction among activists from around the world.  Through Tabax Subë we are working to convene, discuss, devise, and create. Tabax Subë facilitates authentic exchange and creative interaction among experts of day-to-day life -- the ordinary people who are willing to do extraordinary things.  Tabax Subë seeks to connect them to the resources needed to bring their ideas to fruition.

While attracting visitors globally and promoting trans-continental relationships, Tabax Subë stimulates the local economy through direct job creation and enterprise development.  Joint ventures and public/private partnerships involving professionals, technicians, tradesmen, craftspeople, from Africa, Asia, Europe,  and North America help sustain its capacity as an "economic engine."   

It is clear that multi-national corporations invigorate macro-level economic development.  Such development, however, does not always reach the grassroots.  Tabax Subë’s focus, therefore, is on the micro-level.  Wherever possible, linkages are developed to promote job creation and sustainable micro-enterprise.  Tabax Subë is conceived as a catalyst for locally based economic development.  Organic, “bottom-up” processes anchor its philosophical base.  Tabax Subë’s  staff is predominantly Senegalese.

Tabax Subë is a virtual laboratory.  Through it, sustainable development techniques can be developed and refined for subsequent replication.  Tabax Subë demonstrates that it is possible to think globally and, simultaneously, act locally.