Tree nursery to benefit 10,000 Rural Moroccans Photo Gallery

Community Meeting

Community meetings are a first step in the participatory development process and are used to engage local community members and help them to determine their development needs. A variety of methods, including community mapping and pairwise ranking, are used to help local men and women identify and describe their development needs.

High Atlas Mountains

This tree nursery will be constructed in the Rural Commune of Toubkal, a community of 45 villages located on the south side of the High Atlas Mountains that includes 10,000 people. These communities also lie along the southern border of the Toubkal National Park, Morocco's largest and oldest nature protected area.

Rural Family

Your generous donation will help transform the lives of thousands of rural Moroccans by providing them with an economic development opportunity - fruits from the mature trees can be sold at local markets and increase household incomes by at least 150%.

Tree Nursery

This tree nursery we seek to fund will consist of 100,000 fruit tree saplings.Tree nurseries simultaneously improve the natural environment (by improving the soil and irrigation systems); contribute to economic development (the fruit produced by the trees can be sold at markets); and improve the overall quality of community living by reducing urban migration.

Women Planting Trees

Once the tree saplings have reached maturity, after about two years, they will be ready to be transplanted to local orchards.

Women's Community Meeting

Women gather at a community meeting to discuss and prioritize their development needs. By engaging the local community in the entire development process--from prioritizing and designing, to implementing projects--community members take full ownership of their development process.