What started off as a growth strategy to expand operations and ensure food security, has today become Habiba’s key attraction: an organic farm in the desert that adapts cutting-edge methods in sustainable agri-tech, restoration & experimentation. Our farm was founded to help green the Sinai desert and produce organic food to improve the living conditions of the local community. … Read more
GEN-Africa Strategy Meeting
- Date: 14 – 19 December 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Sekem, Belbes, Egypt, Egypt
In this GEN-Africa Strategy Meeting, 25 active leaders and advisors of the network will come together, in order to consolidate the work they have done so far, and to update and develop a clear strategy and concrete targets for the time period of 2015-2020. We will evaluate what has happened since the founding conference of GEN-Africa, how successful we have been on the ground, and integrate the best practices from the past years to decide on the most effective strategies to take GEN-Africa … Read more
Misriyati
Misriyati was inspired by the growing intolerance among the different components of the Egyptian society: religions, social classes and cultural groups. These symptoms revealed the need to work on gaining a new awareness of our reality with its structures and relationships, of improving our competences and skills in dealing with diversity or in meeting conflict, and our re-adoption of values that can enhance peaceful living. Deep discussion led the founding team to consider “education” as the … Read more
SEKEM
When Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish returned to Egypt in 1977 to start the SEKEM initiative he had a strong vision deep in his heart and since then, SEKEM has become a role model for sustainable development with international recognition as shown by the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2003 and the Business for Peace Award in 2012. SEKEM's vision SEKEM was founded with the idea of sustainable development and giving back to the community. The vision that brought Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish to dig the first … Read more
