On April 10th 2008, United States Ambassador to Morocco, Thomas Riley, visited a High Atlas Foundation bake-apple timberline agronomics activity alfresco of Marrakech that was accurate by the Ambassador's Empowerment Fund of the United States Embassy in 2005. The activity buried 7,000 bake-apple copse to advanced the socio-economic and ecology altitude of villages in the Province of Al Haouz.
Rabat, Morocco -- Ambassador Riley, abutting assembly from the High Atlas Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to appointment a bake-apple timberline agronomics activity accurate in 2005 by the United States Embassy in Rabat. The activity of 7,000 bake-apple copse (cherry, apple, prune, and peach) was implemented by the High Atlas Foundation in affiliation with Marrakech21 Foundation and the Regional Direction of Waters and Forests, with villages in the rural collective of Ouirgane in the Province of Al Haouz, which neighbors Toubkal National Park. Joining Ambassador Riley was the Governor of the Province of Al Haouz, Mr. Bouchaib El Moutaouakil, as able-bodied as adopted officials, assembly from the Regional Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Regional Direction of Waters and Forests, and associates of the Tororde Association.
During the visit, Ambassador Riley and Governor El Moutaouakil discussed rural development activities in the region, and toured the new Provincial Space for Development Associations of Al Haouz, a axial convening amplitude for the province's added than 1,200 rural associations, adjourned by Morocco's National Initiative for Human Development (INDH). Ambassador Riley and Governor El Moutaouakil again visited the apple of Tororde, area they visited two bake-apple timberline orchards adjourned by the 2005 activity to altercate the allowances and challenges of bake-apple timberline agronomics with associates of the Tororde Association and bounded farmers.
Our two countries accept been accompany for abounding years and we attending advanced to continuing to plan calm for the account of the rural Moroccan people. The socio-economic allowances of bake-apple timberline agronomics projects cover accretion domiciliary incomes, furthering the abstruse abilities of rural farmers, auspicious participatory autonomous processes at the bounded level, and architecture assorted partnerships through the action of collaboratively designing and implementing projects. Environmental allowances cover the blockage of clay abrasion and desertification, the conception of new agronomical terraces, and offsetting carbon emissions. Since 2003, the High Atlas Foundation has buried over 140,000 bake-apple copse in Morocco, benefiting 23,000 rural humans in six provinces. In June 2006, the alignment launched a appropriate attack to bulb one actor bake-apple copse with rural Moroccan communities.
Ambassador Riley thanked the association of Tororde for their accommodation and batten of the abiding accord and accord that exists amid Morocco and the United States, saying, "Our two countries accept been accompany for abounding years and we attending advanced to continuing to plan calm for the account of the rural Moroccan people." He cited abundant projects accurate in the arena by the High Atlas Foundation, USAID, the Peace Corps, and the United States Embassy in Rabat, and his achievement for connected partnerships in the years ahead. In addition, the Province of Al Haouz has been called as one of the sites to accept allotment from Morocco's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for bake-apple timberline agronomics projects. The MCC seeks to abate poverty, accomplish employment, and access bread-and-butter advance in Morocco. It is advance over $300 actor in bake-apple timberline agronomics in Morocco as allotment of a five-year $697.5 actor bunched that was active in August 2007.
The High Atlas Foundation is a nonprofit alignment that works to authorize development projects in rural communities of Morocco that bounded humans architecture and manage, and which are in affiliation with government and non-government agencies. It was founded by above Peace Corps Volunteers as a way to use their acquaintance and ability acquired for the connected account of the Moroccan people. The High Atlas Foundation currently supports projects in the areas of bake-apple timberline agriculture, cooler water, irrigation, participatory training, women's cooperatives, and adolescence development.
Advisory Board: H.E. André Azoulay, H.E. Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador Edward Gabriel, Ambassador Margaret Tutwiler,Thomas Anderson, Abdelghani Aouifia, Kamar Bencrimo,
Dr. Charlie Benjamin, Dr. Wahiba Benloughmari, Scott Estergard, Dr. Lahcen Haddad, Dr. Najib
Mouhtadi, Ellen Paquette.
Board of Directors: Yossef Ben-Meir (President), Liz Fanning (Vice President), Kate McLetchie
(Country Director), Dan Cahill, Kimeo Carr, Mohamed Chbani, Sir Charles Dahan, Larbi Didouqen, Michelle Ghiselli, Charlie Kellett, Suzanne Moyer.
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