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Integrating Advocacy and Women’s Empowerment: Imagine Workshop in Sefrou
Imagine Empowerment Workshop participants in Sefrou on June 1, 2021. By: Zineb Mellouki, Clinician, USMBA Legal Aid Clinic Over a period of four days, from June 1-4, 2021, the High Atlas Fou
Community Tree Planting Will Lead Morocco Into the Future
Webster Hill HAF-UVa Intern The terrain of Morocco provides the opportunity to achieve tremendous agricultural and environmental results. The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) plants fruit trees a
Introducing a new essay on Moroccan decentralization and renewable energy
By HAF staff The consequences of environmental degradation extend far past a loss of natural resources or fragile ecosystems. The livelihoods, well-being, and health of people across the worl
Making the Farmer King: Why Fair Trade Is a Big Deal
Making the Farmer King: The Need to Shift Our Approach to Agriculture, Morocco World News. By Olufunmilayo Aiyegbusi The Hague, Netherlands Looking through my grandfather's diary 25 years
Together, for Earth and for Morocco
Dear friends, It is a special time of year - and a special week. We are celebrating the earth, our volunteers and partners, and the holy month of Ramadan. With the close of the planting
Offsets in Lockdown: Why COVID-19 Calls for Social Global Carbon Credits
A Unified Emissions Trading System By Finn Grundmann With a value of $299 billion, the trade of carbon credits has become one of the fastest growing markets globally. But with growth comes com
Blooming Morocco: One Argan Seed at a Time
Blooming Morocco: One Argan Seed at a Time, Morocco World News, By Zuha Afzal – HAF-UVA Intern. Zuha Afzal – HAF-UVA Intern [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX_0mbIirJA&t[/embed]
Decentralization of Renewable Energies: Akrich is the First Step of Many
By Zainab Hachoumi, HAF Intern Kaoutar Ait Lahaj, HAF Program Coordinator The general assembly of the Moroccan Platform for the Decentralization of Renewable Energies visiting Akrich. The High At
Achieving Environmental and Economic Sustainability Through Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Shivani Lakshman HAF-UVA Intern Lake Ifni at the Toubkal National Park; Morocco's oldest and largest protected area. Courtesy of the High Atlas Foundation, 2018. The Moroccan government rec
Factors Affecting the Essential Provision of Clean Water
Megan Williams HAF-IVA Intern According to the World Health Organization, in 2017, 5.3 billion people used safely managed drinking-water services located on premises, available when needed,
Achieving Environmental and Economic Sustainability Through Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Shivani Lakshman HAF-UVA Intern The Moroccan government recently laid out a new forestry strategy intended to meet five major goals: sustain natural resources in forests and National Parks, engage
Youth and Environment: Tree planting with schools in Ouezzane province
Karam-Yane Azzabi HAF Program Coordinator It was with great enthusiasm that we - Karam-Yane Azzabi and Mohamed El Kadiri - travelled to Ouezzane on March 12th, in order to distribute trees to sc
Agonss, a Life Between Meadows and Snow
By Zineb Laadam Farmer-to-Farmer, Morocco Despite weakening bodies, with grey hair and clenched faces, these people are still closely committed to their work with all dedication and sincerit
FENELEC: Renewable Energy in a Moroccan Jewish Community-Managed Nursery
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUi2cFvVmY[/embed] Kaoutar Ait Lahaj Social Media Program Coordinator On Sunday, February 20, 2021, the High Atlas Foundation inaugurated the solar wat
HAF Celebrates Tree Planting Day 2021 with the People of Morocco
La HAF Célèbre La Journée De Plantation D’arbres 2021 Avec Le Peuple Marocain, World News, By Sanae Benaadim. • Arabic: World News, 11 February 2021. Sanae Benaadim HAF’s Office Manager
Omaima Khalil El Fanne, Dakira Cultural Coordinator
Omaima Khalil El Fanne, Dakira Cultural Coordinator Omaima Khalil El Fanne joined the High Atlas Foundation team as a Cultural Field Coordinator for the USAID Religious and Ethnic Minorities Activity
HAF to Plant Trees in Morocco on Martin Luther King Day
Elizabeth Jay Program Manager | Digital Strategist Martin Luther King Day falls in the middle of the High Atlas Foundation’s tree-planting season, the most fertile time of year in Morocco.
Meet Hajiba Boumasmar, Program Coordinator of the High Atlas Foundation
Meet Hajiba Boumasmar, Program Coordinator of the High Atlas Foundation, freskincare. The High Atlas Foundation The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) is an American-Moroccan nonprofit that focu
Karam-Yane Azzabi, Program Coordinator
Karam-Yane Azzabi, Program Coordinator Karam-Yane Azzabi is a university student, earning a Master of Social Economy and Sustainable Development. He started as a HAF volunteer in 2016 and joined
International Toilets’ Day: Save a Life
Caption: November 19th is the UN International Day of Toilets On the 19th of November each year, the United Nations celebrates the International Day of Toilets. This day is meant to raise awa
Covid-19: Fighting Hand in Hand
Program Coordinator Friends of Europe invitation for the online debate On the 24th of September, a debate about “Health, welfare, and prosperity: an EU-Africa partnership for a people-cent
Mobilizing Decentralized, Participatory Energy Transition in Morocco
Mobilizing Decentralized, Participatory Energy Transition in Morocco, Eurasia Review, By Kerstin Opfer, Yossef Ben-Meir, Imane Akhezzane, and Marine Pouget. • Arabic: Al-Watan Voice, 27 Septe
High Atlas Foundation’s Errachid Montassir Wins the 2020 International Open Eye Award
Errachid Montassir at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during the Climate Action Summit, September 2019. Errachid Montassir, High Atlas Foundation (HAF) Project Manager and Volunte
Haf’s Fruit Tree Nurseries Vision: Fes Province
Tree Monitoring Officer Caption: HAF nurseries, Fes province: tree-planting skills build good members of society The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) uses land given in-kind by the High Commiss
My Experience with Grant Writing for the High Atlas Foundation
HAF Intern – UVA student As this was my first opportunity working on a grant proposal, I did not know much about the content and format of proposals previously; however, I knew that writin
South-South Youth Cooperation
HAF Project Manager South-South regional blocs led the world to go through a major economic and political transformation over the last two decades. The advances, particularly in the South, ha
World Rainforest Day: Working Towards a Positive Human-Environment Relationship
HAF-UVa Interns World Rainforest Day was started in 2017, with the hope that we take time to collectively recognize the preciousness and the importance of our world’s rainforests and take actio
Contributing to Sustainable Development and Saving the Earth by Planting Trees
HAF Trees Monitoring Officer Earth is greatly negatively affected by climate change. This is observed through rising sea levels, hurricanes, floods, forest fires, and other adverse environmental
Miracle Season
Dear Friend, I have often felt that each project is a miracle, literally. When we look back during times of shared evaluation, who could have known or predicted all the roads we would take or the
Raising Awareness Among Moroccan Pupils
HAF Intern On February 14th, I went with three members of the High Atlas Foundation to a primary school near the town of El Gara in the Berrechid Province. During this day, two workshops were org
