{"id":23204,"date":"2022-07-07T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/?p=23204"},"modified":"2023-01-10T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:37:27","slug":"tamount-ntourit-a-proactive-agricultural-cooperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/tamount-ntourit-a-proactive-agricultural-cooperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamount Ntourit: A Proactive Agricultural Cooperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Zineb Laadam<\/em><br \/>\n<em>HAF Program Manager<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"main-image\" class=\"zoom aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/3wf76SzG\/hajiba1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, Mrs. Nezha Bazzi, and Ms. Hassna Bazzi look no different from any other rural women in Morocco. They live in a far-away area called Tourit in the Chichaoua Province and lead a relatively common country lifestyle looking after their households. But, that is what appears on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most of the rural people in Tourit, they are more independent and proactive in many ways. Above all, they enjoy a degree of financial independence and can support their families.<\/p>\n<p>Their lives changed when a women\u2019s cooperative was established in their area in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The cooperative produces, markets and sells a range of value-added products such as couscous &#8211; a national dish usually made of several crops including wheat, maize and barley.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Mrs. Mnouch Okaddi, president of the cooperative, all women who work here have different stories to share but one common goal: to make a living for themselves and their families and create employment opportunities for other women in their community.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the women of Tamounte Ntourite participate in the empowerment program and learn about life skills from July 1st to 4th.<\/p>\n<p>The USAID Farmer-to-Farmer program implemented by the High Atlas Foundation in Morocco helps by organizing women&#8217;s empowerment workshops for these and other cooperative members, and will follow up with an expert-volunteer assignment in order to deliver training on marketing and organizational operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zineb Laadam HAF Program Manager At first glance, Mrs. Nezha Bazzi, and Ms. Hassna Bazzi look no different from any other rural women in Morocco. They live in a far-away area called Tourit in the Chichaoua Province and lead a relatively common country lifestyle looking after their households. But, that is what appears on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hajiba1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23204"}],"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=23204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23779,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23204\/revisions\/23779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}