مع نهاية شهر فبراير وفي الأسبوع الأخير منه أخذتنا رحلة التمكين من جديد إلى دواخل أنفسنا للغوص قليلا في خواطرنا ومناجاتها عن همومنا الدفينة ومشاعرنا الغابرة. ففي جو هادئ بمنطقة أوريكا وبنفسية قابلة للتغيير ومؤمنة بمغزى التمكين ابتدأت رحلتنا مع نساء تعاونية أبوغلو، رغبة منهن في خوض غمار التجربة نظرا لما كان لهذه الأخيرة من

By Chayma Ouled Sidi Aissa, HAF Volunteer Marrakech The role of women in our society is determining more openly the course of social change in communities. A woman plays a variety of essential roles in our society from her birth until the end of life. While women have profound, vital-to-life responsibilities, they also face greater

The High Atlas Foundation creates unique project models that are essential for Morocco to achieve prosperity.  These models, however, require implementation, sustainability, and expanding to the national scale. Morocco needs a billion fruit trees as one of a number of measures that are needed to overcome rural poverty.  The country is also struggling with very

By: R. Maxwell Bone HAF Intern   Marrakech How does a stay at home mom from New York City with a background in marketing and publishing start a multi-national company and empower women from rural villages, many of whom are illiterate and have received no formal education? All that one needs to do to find

A review of an Al Jazeera podcast By Rachid Montassir HAF Volunteer Marrakech This documentary produced by the Al Jazeera podcast channel takes us to the heart of Essaouira, which is often referred to as “the city of coexistence”. Some say that this is because of a large number of foreigners who call the city

بحثا عن الأنسب وسعيا إلى تنمية حقيقية فقد قامت مؤسسة الأطلس الكبير- الجنوب- بدورة تكوينية حول موضوع”التمكين الذاتي” لبعض السيدات ببوجدور بدعم من الصندوق الوطني للديمقراطية الدي نتقدم له بخالص الشكر و الامتنان لتمويله مجموعة من الورشات التدريبية. كان الفضاء الجمعوي  ببوجدور قبلة لعشرين امرأة من مختلف الثقافات والأعمار مدة أربعة  أيام  والهدف هو الحضور

Another Touch in Rhamna with HAF After three months with the High Atlas Foundation, I returned again to my origins in the Rhamna province, where I had the chance to earlier bring the benefit of more than 400 trees on the 16th of January – for the planting event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today

By Amina Eajjami Project manager with High Atlas Foundation Sustainable development fornew projects requires sustainable training for people. In this regard, the High Atlas Foundation signed a partnership agreement with JLM IAV Hassan II, in Rabat, with the objective of training the women of Aboghlou cooperative. The students educated the women in advanced agricultural technologies within the

The High Atlas Foundation with the Academy of Education in the capital city, Rabat, and on the occasion of Morocco coming back to the African union, organized an event – “Afrique en capital” – with many African Ambassadors at the Dar Assalam High School. There were many good steps that composed the day: First step:

  Tim Ager Vising Engineering Expert   USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Program My image of Morocco was dry, a desert, and not a place of agricultural growth.  I was surprised by the vast olive groves and orchards of fruit trees often visible from the window of my train as I travelled from Marrakech, through Casablanca and Rabat, to Fez. 

Gregory Sullivan, HAF Visiting Expert International Executive Service Corps (IESC) USAID’s Farmer to Farmer Program April 18 to May 5, 2017 The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) in Morocco is using innovative approaches to tackling poverty in this North Africa country, as well as addressing the challenge of climate change.  HAF is a non-profit organization dedicated

One of the main projects that the High Atlas Foundation takes part in is the Sami’s project which works to improve systems of rural schools across the Kingdom of Morocco. One of the main aspects of this project is the distribution of various types of fruit trees to many types of schools. These include primary

– Coming of Age in Tassa Ouirgane, Modern Ghana, by Mark Apel (Community Extension Expert), 17 May 2017. • Arabic: Al Bayader, 7 July 2017. By Mark Apel- USAID Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, Former Peace Coprs Morocco Volunteer. From 1985 until 1986, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer living in the Azzeden Valley working for the country’s Eaux et

New Educational Workshop and Nursery for At-Risk Youth in Fes by Said Bennani HAF Project Manager According to the World Bank, the unemployment rate for young people ages 15 to 24 in Morocco in 2016 was over 20 percent. This figure does not include people who are underemployed or who work in the informal sector

The Empowerment Journey By Ibtissam Niri, Imagine Workshop Facilitator After finishing the empowerment journey In Ma’ain in Jordan and coming back to our sweet homeland Morocco, each one’s own empowerment journey took  us on a journey within ourselves to dig  little deeper into our minds and talk to it about our deep sorrows and feelings. In

Visiting Youssoufia’s Schools On the last Friday before Ramadan, we had a great visit to Youssoufia city. As usual after every season of planting, HAF goes back to evaluate the situation of the trees, and listens to the stidents as to what they need in their schools. And this evaluation’s visit is respectively the fourth;