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Working at SEKEM

SEKEM is a multicultural community, where people from different nationalities, different cultural and religious background meet, exchange expertise and knowledge. Each morning, the employees meet in a circle for a collective start. Read More

Biodynamic Agriculture

The reliability of SEKEM’s production depends, next to its own cultivation, on the supply of high quality, biodynamically grown produce, cotton and herbs. Read More

Education at SEKEM

Education is the foundation of holistic human development and advancement of all. Learning throughout life enables people to improve their living conditions and contribute to the development of the community and the country. Read More

Arts at SEKEM

Art is the window through which man can realise his higher faculties.The artistic impulse in SEKEM provides every employee with the opportunity to discover the artist in himself. Read More

Posted on 18 Apr 2012

Dr. Ibrahim is selected as Honouree for the Business for Peace Award 2012
The Award Giving Committee of Nobel Laureates has selected Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish as one of seven Honorees of the Business for Peace Award 2012.

Posted on 20 Mar 2012

Posted on 1 Oct 2011

SEKEM Publishes Report on Sustainable Development for 2010

For the first time, the SEKEM “Report on Sustainable Development 2010” includes the new SEKEM farmlands and gives interesting background information on desert cultivation

Posted on 3 Sept 2011

Dr. Abouleish Is Awarded the International B.A.U.M. Prize

German Environmental Management Association has decided to award Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish - the Egyptian organic agriculture pioneer, during its annual meeting held on 22 and 23 September, in Hamburg.

Welcome to SEKEM

The SEKEM initiative was founded to realise the vision of sustainable human development. SEKEM aims to contribute to the comprehensive development of the individual, society and environment. A holistic concept encompassing integrated economic, social and cultural development forms the key SEKEM vision. In 1977, Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish founded the SEKEM initiative on an untouched part of the desert (70 hectares) in an area 60 kilometers northwest of Cairo.

Over the years, SEKEM became the "umbrella" of a multifaceted agro-industrial group of business companies and several NGO's encompassing a variety of socio-cultural-human development institutions and cooperative associations. Currently, SEKEM is regarded as an outstanding world-class, socio-business corporation. In fact, in August 2003, Dr. Abouleish was selected as one of the world's outstanding Social Entrepreneurs by the Schwab Foundation. In December 2003, the Right Livelihood Foundation awarded SEKEM and Dr. Abouleish the prestigious "Alternative Nobel Prize". According to the statement of the Award, "SEKEM demonstrates how a modern business model combines profitability and success in world markets with a humane and spiritual approach to people while maintaining respect for the environment."

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