Moroccan (and HAF) Reflections at the End of the Year

Moroccan (and HAF) Reflections at the End of the Year     Morocco is a place of infinite possibility.  That is so because of Morocco, its multicultural people, and its identity.  People’s participation in their development can occur in all its places, because it is encouraged - even obligatory - by multiple laws and programs of the land.      The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) creates project and partnership models that make national impact absolutely real.  We create the public, private, and multi-tiered relationships and project examples that engine national transformation.  Incredibly, Morocco’s full success of its participatory, decentralized development vision carries profound meaning for itself, the Continent, and the Middle East.  We are dedicated to Morocco fulfilling its global potential from its own national sustainable development.     HAF empowers women through their self-discovery, community-driven livelihoods, and knowledge of human rights.  HAF builds the power of youth through sharpening their abilities to create sustainable community and personal growth.  HAF brightens schools with new classrooms, gardens, and interactive environmental education.  HAF brings clean drinking water to marginalized communities.  HAF vastly expands the organic agricultural economy, and helps direct the new revenue to advance the people’s development.      HAF’s partnerships with cooperatives and associations, government, andreligious communities is seeing millions of fruit trees being grown and hundreds of millions more possible.  The planting season is now and we plant trees such as walnut, carob, and others that live for centuries.  We also monitor tree growth for carbon credit offsets.  We would be honored and grateful to provide you these credits.      Giving to HAF is giving to personal and national transformation, and to the international consequences of Morocco a truly fulfilled participatory nation.    It is a New Year celebrated by much of our planet.  Here is to all our resolutions of the heart.  Here is to Morocco and to all who strive for its complete potential. Yours faithfully, Yossef Ben-Meir President High Atlas Foundation

MAPPING NEEDS WITH WOMEN OF TALATAN, OURIKA VALLEY The HAF team, including Fatima-Zahra, Amina, Ibtissam, Gal and Abd-El Jalil, visited the Village of Talatan in the Ourika Valley.  We have been working in this mountain region a lot, and it is always exciting to see it changing in front of our eyes. The weather is indeed changing too.  The beautiful mountains are covered with snow.  The people of Morocco’s prayers for rain were answered; the mountains are white.Continue  Give to this project HAF PROMOTES TREE PLANTING & VALUE-ADDITION  The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) in Morocco is using innovative approaches to tackling poverty in this North Africa country,  as well as addressing the challenge of climate change.  HAF is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the livelihoods of rural households. The Foundation was established in 2000 by former Peace Corps Volunteers and registered in both the USA and Morocco.  It set an ambitious goal to plant one million trees and successfully met that challenge in 2014. HAF is not stopping and has agreed to support the Government of Morocco to reach its target to plant one billion trees, and has created model nurseries and partnerships to achieve this transformative milestone. Continue Give to this project   VOLUNTEERS CREATE WORLDS A world created is one that begins with a path taken by an individual who gives time, energy, thought, and care without personal material return, to people seeking a genuine change.  The volunteer-of-oneself may begin this journey with heavy concern over the unknown, with boundless belief in the infinitely possible, and with even outright alienation from the people to benefit.  The giver-without-recompense may start a dialogue within oneself, asking why am I here, what can I do that really matters, and must I do this and feel cold, tired, hungry, and alone?  Continue Thank you Farmer-to-Farmer (Land O' Lakes and USAID) and all HAF's Volunteers. Volunteer  with us.

CELEBRATING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT  In the heart of Ourika Valley, the Aboghlou Women’s Cooperative, YSL Beauté, PUR Project, and the High Atlas Foundation succeeded in creating a beautiful organic nursery of calendula and other medicinal plants, as well as almond trees. The nursery is managed by the Cooperative of 39 women. The women of the Cooperative showed a very warm welcome to the 100 guests by sharing their accomplishments Continue عربى Give to this project WATER, RAIN, COME OUR WAY! We are in the midst of a wrenching drought in Morocco.  There is ultimately no greater relief than rain.   There are though actions we can take together to help safeguard drinking water and the survival of the organic fruit trees we planted. Water conservation basically comes down to containment and efficiency, and empowered local community management.  In arid places, we also need to deepen wells.  Basins and pipes conserve water by eliminating seepage and enabling us to irrigate with better precision.  They also help to purify the water and reduce water born diseases and infant mortality.  Deepening wells by even five meters we can significantly reduce the economic shock of the drought, and stem food insecurity. Continue Give to this project   COMMUNITY PROJECT DREAMS $100 = One training workshop with 40 women on cooperative-building and human rights $500 = Grow 15,000 walnut seeds in a tree nurserygenerating income for 1,000 people $1,000 = Enable a local NGO to hire one pre-school teacher for one year for 30 children $2,000 = 2 bathrooms for girls and 2 for boys at a rural school of 100 students $2,000 = 4-day empowerment-human rights workshop with 25 women $5,000 = A well at a primary school for drinking water and garden for 100 students $80,000 = Grow 200,000 fruit trees and install a well and drip system, benefiting 8,000 people          Give to a Moroccan Dream

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