People to People International (PTPI)<\/a>\u00a0in the village of Tassa Ouirgane located in southern Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains.\u00a0 PTPI, founded by President Dwight Eisenhower, and now run by his granddaughter, is dedicated to cross-cultural communication within and across communities and nations.<\/p>\nThe visit helped the students build first-hand knowledge of the socio-economic and environmental opportunities in rural Morocco and gave them the opportunity to participate in a service-learning project. During the program, students gained basic knowledge about participatory development through an\u00a0introductory\u00a0session conducted\u00a0by HAF\u2019s Training and Project Manager, Abderrahim Ouarghidi. In addition, the students\u00a0practiced hands-on activities with the \u00a0community, such as social mapping and pair-wise ranking, with the goal of helping local people reach consensus on their priority development needs.<\/p>\n
The students also enjoyed traditional Moroccan food, learned basic cultural norms in rural Morocco, and built\u00a0relationships with local people through community meetings and discussions. Students toured the village with community members – a walk that took them to the local association, springs, orchards, and fields –\u00a0 and to discover the landscape that surrounds the village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Between June 3rd and June 5th,\u00a0 HAF hosted fourteen students and two adult leaders from\u00a0People to People International (PTPI)\u00a0in the village of Tassa Ouirgane located in southern Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains.\u00a0 PTPI, founded by President Dwight Eisenhower, and now run by his granddaughter, is dedicated to cross-cultural communication within and across communities and nations. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Selmaarticle.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17115,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/17115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}