Our Senegal ‘24 team is composed of four individuals from across the world whose work will make a difference to girls and boys, their families and their community in the Fatick region of Senegal. Senegal currently ranks 168 out of 189 countries on the UN Human Development Index. Nearly half of all Senegalese over the age of 15 are illiterate and more than 6 million (38 percent of the total population) are living below the poverty line of $1.90 a day.

Please consider supporting  Team Dayā. We cannot build these schools without your support. Example investment opportunities:

• $100 Five shovels for excavating the school’s foundation
• $250 All the nails, nuts, and bolts to build a roof for the school
• $500 In-country mason during the entire construction of the school
• $1,000 Paint for a school
• $40,000 Builds a school

Meet our Senegal ‘24 team and please consider supporting them. All contributions go directly to the school building. Team members pay all their own travel costs.

Returning Team Members

ARIK. Hasan “Trust & Transparency” Arik is a founding partner of Team Dayā and an alumni of multiple school builds including our 2022 Senegal project. He is CEO at Redmill Solutions in London and has worked at Mediacom and GroupM. Donate.

SEARS. Team Dayā Founder Jay Sears will be headed to Senegal, his second project in the country. In addition to running Team Dayā and the local community news site MyRye.com in his hometown, Jay has worked at Tentrr, Mastercard, Rubicon Project, Pulsepoint, ContextWeb, EDGAR Online and Wolff New Media. Donate.

New Team Members

INGALLS. Terra Ingalls has 15 years of publisher/retail media, adtech, and agency experience, leading teams at WPP and Publicis/Epsilon. She is motivated by the opportunity to set an example for her nine year old son: “I want to show him how important it is to help others when we can, and there’s no better way to teach these things to your children, than by doing it yourself.” Donate.

WYREMBAK. Paul Wyrembak serves as the Senior Director of Product at Symitri and the Head of Technical Operations at TRUSTX. He previously worked at PadSquad, and was Co-Founder of Dantech Systems. He is a co-worker of Team Dayā’s head of recruiting Jaryd Knutsen. Wyrembak “realized early on that hard work and determination are only minor components in the criteria that determine one’s “success.”  Sometimes, it requires a display of kindness, empathy, or gratitude.” Donate.

Please consider supporting  Team Dayā. We cannot build these schools without your support. Example investment opportunities:

• $100 Five shovels for excavating the school’s foundation
• $250 All the nails, nuts, and bolts to build a roof for the school
• $500 In-country mason during the entire construction of the school
• $1,000 Paint for a school
• $40,000 Builds a school

Team Dayā 2024 Plans

In 2024, we plan to build schools in Nepal (March), Senegal (June 2024) and Guatemala (December 2024). These ground breakings will be our second school in each of these countries.

The exact start dates are:

• Sunday, March 17, 2024 – Nepal (arrive Kathmandu) [groundbreaking completed, construction in progress]
• Sunday, June 23, 2024 – Senegal (arrive Dakar) [scheduled]
• Sunday, December 1, 2024 – Guatemala (arrive Guatemala City) [spots available]

If you are curious to learn more about joining a build, please reach out to our Head of Recruiting Jaryd Knutsen.