Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
The High Atlas Foundation is on course for a smashing planting season in Morocco, but we could do even more, and we must do all we can by mid-March.<\/p>\n
HAF is dedicated to the ENTIRE agricultural process \u2013 from\u00a0tree nurseries<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0organic certification of fruit<\/a>\u00a0(doubling prices for farmers), to markets and export, and all the training and partnership-building required along the way.\u00a0 The HAF model\u00a0empowers women<\/a>\u00a0and youth associations, entire villages and communes.\u00a0 The projects are the people\u2019s and create revenue streams for new community investments in\u00a0irrigation<\/a>,\u00a0clean drinking water<\/a>,\u00a0schools<\/a>, and\u00a0business cooperatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two year old walnut trees purchased to be planted in orchards cost about 12 dirhams.\u00a0 HAF community nurseries enable the people to pay only 2 dirhams, and builds the skills of local people, generating local employment.\u00a0 HAF is distributing now 20,000 walnut trees from a 2011 nursery and planting 100,000 more seeds in the Toubkal commune, an ongoing nursery first launched in 2006 in memory of\u00a0Kate Jeans-Gail<\/a>, a former Morocco Peace Corps Volunteer.\u00a0 We can do so much more, and we are \u2013 planting two other community nurseries in the Al Haouz province,\u00a0olive orchards<\/a>\u00a0and cactus fruit plants in Rhmana, and with 15 rural elementary schools and students \u2013\u00a0Sami\u2019s Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n I ask: Who would like to enable new community nurseries in the Ouirika Valley and the Asni and Ouirgane Communes of the High Atlas, and in the Azilal region in the Communes of Ait Mhamed or Ouaouizerth (where the late Ambassador Chris Stevens served as a Peace Corps Volunteer)?\u00a0 HAF-communities can implement them, but loving people and groups need to fund the costs.\u00a0 I am asking essentially: Can we make a far better future for communities by implementing catalyst and formative agricultural projects that are fully economic and environmental?\u00a0 It costs $30,000 per site – for needed irrigation, green houses, training, seeds, etc.\u00a0 We are one push away from planting that millionth seed.<\/p>\n Is there a collective HAF voice out that hears me?\u00a0 The time is now and short, and the course of the future of so many would be so much brighter.\u00a0 I must tell you, it is hard for us all to wait another a year when the people are ready, when potential and the inevitable for shared prosperity are postponed.\u00a0 When entire communities come together and agree on a priority human development need and project, it is time to implement.\u00a0 In the end, it is the young who are trapped, and women without means, and girls laboring, and the well-intentioned without recourse.<\/p>\n HAF is in Morocco to provide a participatory way, and the people have responded, so let\u2019s build it, let the seeds be many, for the love and sake of humanity.<\/p>\n Happy planting wherever that might be,<\/p>\n Sincerely, Dear Friends, The High Atlas Foundation is on course for a smashing planting season in Morocco, but we could do even more, and we must do all we can by mid-March. HAF is dedicated to the ENTIRE agricultural process \u2013 from\u00a0tree nurseries\u00a0to\u00a0organic certification of fruit\u00a0(doubling prices for farmers), to markets and export, and all the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Yossef Ben-Meir
\nPresident
\nHigh Atlas Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"