{"id":4659,"date":"2019-05-23T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:53:28","slug":"ramadan-for-environment-and-womens-empowerment-in-tassa-ouirgane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/ramadan-for-environment-and-womens-empowerment-in-tassa-ouirgane\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan for Environment and Women\u2019s Empowerment in Tassa Ouirgane"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elouahsoussi Rachid<\/em>
\nHAF intern<\/em><\/p>\n

On Wednesday the 14th<\/sup> of May, members of the High Atlas Foundation\u2019s team visited Tassa Ouirgane to conduct a women\u2019s empowerment meeting and pay a visit to the foundation\u2019s nursery there. The team consisted of Amina El Hajjami, HAF\u2019s Director of Projects, and Hassan Ait Ouatouch, HAF\u2019s Project Assistant, as well as me. The field visit started in the morning by meeting first with some local farmers in the village next to the nursery. The plants there include pomegranate, olive, and walnut, and have grown rapidly\u2014particularly the pomegranate plants. Amina supervised the work in the nursery and the technical aspects of irrigation, and the United Nations Development Program is financing the multi-faceted program. We engaged with the farmers who were present in conversation about the nursery and farming in the village in addition to both its challenges and promising factors.<\/p>\n

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We later met with the girls and women of Tassa Ouirgane\u2019s new Cooperative for Medicinal Plants. Amina discussed with this group of women the name they chose for the cooperative as well as their previous conversations regarding the cooperative\u2019s activities. In addition, the members addressed the type of plants they brought, their uses, and names in Tamazight, including \u201cTikida\u201d and \u201cTimija.\u201d Most importantly, Amina opened a discussion about the legal and administrative procedures to finish establishing the cooperative. Notably, most of the women need to first organize prerequisite documents of their own, such as their national ID, in order to have the right to collect the cooperative\u2019s legal documents. Further, Amina discussed the organizational side of the cooperative: abiding by the internal law, embodying its values, assistance, democratically electing the office members of the cooperative, having a fixed price for their products, and selling profitable products were among the emphasized topics for which members had to agree upon.<\/p>\n

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Both developmental projects of the nursery and the newly established women\u2019s cooperative have an effective impact on the beneficiary groups in Tassa Ouirgane. The nursery, for which the village\u2019s local association is responsible, provides various trees for planting each year. The women\u2019s Cooperative of Medicinal Plans will also have a sustainable outcome, not only for its members but also their families and school children whom they will be capable of supporting financially. The two aforementioned projects can in fact lead to achieving multiple developmental goals at the same time.<\/p>\n

Give to this project.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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