{"id":7521,"date":"2019-11-21T04:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:09:29","slug":"preserving-the-landscapes-of-the-azzadene-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/preserving-the-landscapes-of-the-azzadene-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving the Landscapes of the Azzadene Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
HAF Intern<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The olive, almond, and walnut nursery of 24,100 trees comprises a 107.5m2 green house, the necessary equipment, and high-quality seeds adapted to the region. The project also includes conceptual and practical training for farmers on how to grow the trees and seed selection.<\/p>\n A basin is 3 x 5 meters with a capacity to carry 38 tons of water has been constructed, a water well 35 meters deep was built, and a solar-power pump was installed – for the benefit of the farmers of Tassa Ouirgane. Further, 960 meters of gabions have also been built to protect agricultural lands against floods caused by the river. On October 9th and 10th, Amina Hajami, HAF\u2019s director of projects, visited Tassa Ouirgane to assess the development of the project.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Most of the members of the Tassa Ouirgane cooperative are very ambitious 15 girls between the ages of 14 and 20 years. The women of the village have received a series of seven capacity-building workshops. The first was Imagine empowerment activities that constituted 32 hours over four days to channel creative energies towards achieving specific goals and establish better familial and community relationships.<\/p>\n Malika is a divorced woman who has little daughter. She is now working at the cooperative and faces the people’s traditional perspectives of divorced women. She totally changed her thinking with new income and confidence. Before, she was not comfortable leaving her parents’ house to avoid the hurtful words of people, but now she goes out everyday for work and self-growth.<\/p>\n Zahra is able to manage the cooperative by delivering the tasks to members and monitoring their work hours by using a daily attendance list. She described her earlier desire to start a new cooperative that benefit community and women, based on cultivating and marketing medicinal and aromatic herbs and working on apple cider vinegar. The region is very rich in these kinds of plants. The spirit of cooperation and achievement did not leave them despite study and work in the cooperative on Saturdays and Sundays and often during leisure time.<\/p>\n I affirm that the village of Tassa Ouirgane is a typical model of a village in Morocco that has benefited from a comprehensive project by the civic organization, the High Atlas Foundation, which contributes to providing better living conditions for our communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nSince July 2017, the village of Tassa Ouirgane in the Marrakech region\u2019s Azzadene Valley is taking action against flooding and soil erosion through restoring agricultural terraces and fruit tree orchards. This project is funded by the United Nations Development Program.<\/div>\n
\nNinety famers from as many households (including 600 people \u2013 380 women and 220 men) in the region are now benefiting from the project, including capacity-building workshops about irrigation methods and how to improve the productivity of the nursery.<\/p>\n