Tree nursery to benefit 10,000 Rural Moroccans
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Summary
This tree nursery provides 60 remote rural Moroccan villages with 100,000 fruit tree saplings and the technical training necessary to advance economic development and nature conservation.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $20,985 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By High Atlas Foundation That You Can Help
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Project will address rural poverty and environmental degradation. The communities consist primarily of subsistence farmers and shepherds. Overgrazing and deforestation have resulted in soil erosion that affects agriculture and impedes access to clean water. This nursery will provide a cash crop that will increase the income of 10,000 inhabitants by at least 150% after two years, offer a more diverse diet with fruits, improve soil and water quality, and combat overgrazing and deforestation.
Activities
Community members organize the construction of a fruit tree nursery of 100,000 saplings – including walnut, cherry, apple, pear, and plum. Local care takers are trained in the skills necessary to maintain the nursery for its two year duration.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $20,985
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $20,985 . The original project funding goal was $27,500.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The impact includes an average increase in income of 150% per household, income diversification and employment, ecosystem restoration, prevention of urban migration and the technical capacity to maintain the growth of orchards.
Project Message
Tree planting projects are essential for Morocco, and become transformative when you use them as a training tool to teach people how to engage in the development process.
- Mouhssine Tadlaoui-Cherki, Director of Env't Program, Peace Corps Morocco
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Kate McLetchie
Board member
Park West Station, PO Box 21081
New York, NY 10025
United States
212-400-3952
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
High Atlas Foundation
Park West Station, PO Box 21081
New York,
NY
10025
United States
(646) 688-2946
http://www.highatlasfoundation.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Morocco
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about Morocco, read the Human Development Report on Morocco or the Wikipedia entry for Morocco.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 1, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Implementation of tree nursery
By Kate McLetchie - Country Director, January 02, 2008 05:51 PM
For the Kate's Jean-Gail Memorial tree nursery we planted 60,000 saplings in February 2007 with communities in the Taroudant Province. In October 2007 the grafting of the saplings took place and the saplings are thriving and healthy. We look forward to monitoring the progress of this nursery in the years to come and to continue our work with this community.
Since this community only had the capacity to grow 60,000 saplings we will be planting an additional 40,000 saplings in 2008 with communities in the Azaddene Valley of Morocco as part of this project. Plans are also underway to plant trees with communities in the Imenane and Azaddene Valleys in 2008 - our goal is to at least double the number we planted last year, planting 160,000 trees and saplings in 2008.
We thank all of you who donated to this fruit tree planting project and look forward to the many things we can together accomplish for rural Morocco.
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