Reception :
High Atlas Foundation Annual NYC Reception
Mark Your Calendar for HAF's
Annual NYC Reception - October 15th 2008!
Please join HAF on Wednesday October 15th for its fourth annual NYC Reception - a Moroccan art exhibit, sale, and silent auction - at the Urban Center at the New York Palace Hotel. Featured artists include Hamid Kachmar (mixed techniques), Alan Keohane (black and white photography), and Dennie Kirtley (color photography), with signed prints from The Butter Man by the illustrator, Julie Klear Essakalli. The authors of The Butter Man book, Elizabeth Letts Alalou and Ali Alalou, will be with us to sign copies of this children's book set in the High Atlas Mountains. Books are $15 each and all profits benefit HAF. Learn more about the featured artists, silent auction, and HAF's fundraising goal of $100,000. Invitations will be send out shortly or you can register today. Tickets are $90 in advance or $100 at the door. All proceeds to benefit HAF's development projects with Moroccan communities.
Notes from the Field
Imenane Valley
In partnership with the Global Diversity Foundation, HAF recently completed a three month participatory monitoring and evaluation program in the Imenane Valley. All nine of the villages in this valley, which includes approximately 3,000 people, participated in HAF's fruit tree agriculture program during the past three years (42,000 fruit trees were distributed 2006-2008). The evaluation brought associations and communities together to discuss the successes and challenges of fruit tree agriculture in the region, along with identifying other socio-economic and environmental projects the communities would like to pursue. In addition to using participatory methods, such as pairwise ranking and community mapping, the evaluation also included an empirical component in order to determine survival rates and health conditions of the fruit trees. Read about the key findings of this evaluation.
Tifnoute Valley
During the months of August and September, HAF is meeting with communities in the Tifnoute Valley to evaluate the Kate Jeans-Gail Tree Nursery Memorial project (a community nursery of 60,000 fruit trees) and create an action plan for the distribution of these trees this winter. We are also meeting with communities to review technical plans for clean drinking water projects, and meeting with women to create a cooperative that will serve up to ten villages in the region. Please check our website later this fall for updates on the Tifnoute Valley.
- When:
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10.15.2008
- Where:
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Urban Center at the New York Palace Hotel -
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Mark Your Calendar for HAF's
Annual NYC Reception - October 15th 2008!
Please join HAF on Wednesday October 15th for its fourth annual NYC Reception - a Moroccan art exhibit, sale, and silent auction - at the Urban Center at the New York Palace Hotel. Featured artists include Hamid Kachmar (mixed techniques), Alan Keohane (black and white photography), and Dennie Kirtley (color photography), with signed prints from The Butter Man by the illustrator, Julie Klear Essakalli. The authors of The Butter Man book, Elizabeth Letts Alalou and Ali Alalou, will be with us to sign copies of this children's book set in the High Atlas Mountains. Books are $15 each and all profits benefit HAF. Learn more about the featured artists, silent auction, and HAF's fundraising goal of $100,000. Invitations will be send out shortly or you can register today. Tickets are $90 in advance or $100 at the door. All proceeds to benefit HAF's development projects with Moroccan communities.
Notes from the Field
Imenane Valley
In partnership with the Global Diversity Foundation, HAF recently completed a three month participatory monitoring and evaluation program in the Imenane Valley. All nine of the villages in this valley, which includes approximately 3,000 people, participated in HAF's fruit tree agriculture program during the past three years (42,000 fruit trees were distributed 2006-2008). The evaluation brought associations and communities together to discuss the successes and challenges of fruit tree agriculture in the region, along with identifying other socio-economic and environmental projects the communities would like to pursue. In addition to using participatory methods, such as pairwise ranking and community mapping, the evaluation also included an empirical component in order to determine survival rates and health conditions of the fruit trees. Read about the key findings of this evaluation.
Tifnoute Valley
During the months of August and September, HAF is meeting with communities in the Tifnoute Valley to evaluate the Kate Jeans-Gail Tree Nursery Memorial project (a community nursery of 60,000 fruit trees) and create an action plan for the distribution of these trees this winter. We are also meeting with communities to review technical plans for clean drinking water projects, and meeting with women to create a cooperative that will serve up to ten villages in the region. Please check our website later this fall for updates on the Tifnoute Valley.
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