Date: October 3, 2008, New York, NY<\/p>\n
Contact: Kate McLetchie, Country Director at (646) 688-2946 or\u00a0kate@highatlasfoundation.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) will host a Moroccan art exhibit, sale, and silent auction on Wednesday, October 15th<\/sup>\u00a02008 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Urban Center, New York Palace Hotel (457 Madison Avenue<\/a>).\u00a0 Featured artists include\u00a0Hamid Kachmar<\/strong>\u00a0(mixed techniques),\u00a0Alan Keohane<\/strong>\u00a0(black and white photography), and\u00a0Dennie Kirtley<\/strong>\u00a0(color photography). The event will also feature signed prints from\u00a0The Butter Man<\/a><\/em>\u00a0book by the illustrator\u00a0Julie Klear Essakalli<\/strong>, and signed copies of the book – a children’s story set in the High Atlas Mountains – by the authors\u00a0Elizabeth Letts Alalou<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ali Alalou<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The event has been generously sponsored by\u00a0Merrill Lynch<\/a><\/strong>, and all proceeds from the evening will go towards HAF’s $100,000 fundraising goal to support socio-economic development projects with Moroccan communities, including: planting two community nurseries of 100,000 saplings, benefitting approximately 10,000 people in the Ouirka and Azzadene Valleys, in partnership with Morocco’s High Commission of Waters and Forests; implementing clean drinking water projects with five villages in the Tifnoute Valley, benefitting 1,600 people; and providing fellowships to eight university students at Hassan II University-Mohammedia, to train them in participatory community planning skills for a six month period.<\/p>\n The High Atlas Foundation was founded in 2000 by former Peace Corps Volunteers in order to use their professional experience and knowledge gained during their years of service for the continued benefit of the Moroccan people.\u00a0 HAF’s mission is to establish development projects that local communities design and manage and that are in partnership with government and non-government agencies.<\/p>\n Honorary Event Chairs include\u00a0Carol Bellamy<\/strong>, President and CEO, World Learning;\u00a0John Entelis<\/strong>, Director of the Middle East Studies Program, Fordham University;\u00a0Ambassador Marc Ginsberg<\/strong>, former US Ambassador to Morocco;\u00a0Darcy Neill<\/strong>, former Director of Peace Corps Morocco;\u00a0Kevin Quigley<\/strong>, President, National Peace Corps Association;\u00a0Tim Resch<\/strong>, President, Friends of Morocco; and\u00a0Ambassador Thomas Riley<\/strong>, US Ambassador to Morocco.<\/p>\n To learn more about the High Atlas Foundation and to purchase tickets for this special event for Morocco please * * * P R E S S\u00a0\u00a0 R E L E A S E * * * Date: October 3, 2008, New York, NY Contact: Kate McLetchie, Country Director at (646) 688-2946 or\u00a0kate@highatlasfoundation.org The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) will host a Moroccan art exhibit, sale, and silent auction on Wednesday, October 15th\u00a02008 from 6:00pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/26941424903-8278950ef8-c.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343"}],"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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19537,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/19537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nvisit\u00a0https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/<\/a>\u00a0or contact Kate McLetchie, Country Director at (646) 688-2946 or\u00a0kate@highatlasfoundation.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"