Responsibility, Opportunity and Optimism
SEKEM was founded with the idea of sustainable development and caring for the community. The vision that brought Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish to dig the first well in the vast desert …
Information on the Situation in Regard to the Corona Virus
From the day of its foundation more than 40 years ago, SEKEM opened its doors to people from all over the world. It is our core value to exchange knowledge …
Organic delivers: Successful Biofach 2020
“Organic delivers”, this year’s motto of the world’s leading trade fair for organic consumer goods was also reflected in the growing number of exhibitors: 3792 from 110 countries presented themselves …
People in SEKEM: Tharwat Ismail
Tharwat Ismail teaches us that it’s never too late for a new beginning. At the age of 51, Tharwat first joined SEKEM and has been a positive and productive member …
Experience Pure and Wild Nature in the Desert: Visiting Wahat-Farm
Our friends from ViandantiSì have been organizing trips to SEKEM for more than a year now. In the past months they also brought guests to SEKEM’s farm in Wahat El-Bahareya …
The Future of Greening the Desert: We Will Continue!
On our desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, we have reclaimed 63 hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture, supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is the latest update. By …
Let the Knowledge Flow: First Workshop on African Organic Knowledge Hubs
In the middle of January, the first workshop of the international project “North African Organic Knowledge Hub” took place at the SEKEM Farm. Together with partner institutions from Tunisia and …
Christmas at SEKEM
In many parts of the world, Christmas is a time for celebrations, decorations, family, joy, kindness and giving to others; and for many industries it’s a time for high profitability …
Full of Confidence: Unfolding of Potential Becomes Visible Every Day
Full of excitement more than 250 people from all around the globe came to the Social Initiative Forum 2019 that took place at SEKEM and Heliopolis University from 11 to …
City of Stuttgart and SEKEM Want to Intensify Cooperation
The German city Stuttgart and Cairo have been twinned for 40 years already. As part of this anniversary, a delegation from the state capital of Baden-Württemberg traveled to the …
From the Seed of an Idea – to the Growing and Unfolding of a Fruit
Elisabeth Rieger, one of SEKEM’s good friends and advocates, helped to organize a visit and collaboration with a German Choir to SEKEM. She tells about the insights of their experience …
Hand in Hand Against Climate Change
This year, the Hand in Hand Fund (supported by Deutsche Umwelthilfe e. V. and Rapunzel Naturkost GmbH) continues to support two SEKEM projects: planting 4200 trees and recycling date seeds. …
Thirteen Villages Project Starts Again
SEKEM School and Heliopolis University are relaunching the Thirteen Villages Project. In 2004, Ibrahim Abouleish, SEKEM’s founder had initiated a project to develop the villages surrounding SEKEM Farm. The project …
Crowdfunding for Social Initiative Forum in SEKEM
Join! “Man Cannot Work Alone” is an essential belief that guided the social entrepreneur Ibrahim Abouleish when he established the SEKEM initiative in Egypt. We are inspired by this belief and think that overcoming …
SEKEM Celebrates “Unfolding Individual Potential” on Its 43rd Anniversary
SEKEM celebrated its 43rd anniversary and the school’s 30th anniversary under the theme of “Unfolding Individual Potential” by inviting all its community members, partners and friends. Every year, the annual …
Three Egyptian Eurythmists Went on a Journey
In the framework of the anniversary year “Waldorf100” that celebrates 100 years of Waldorf education worldwide, and thanks to committed SEKEM friends, three eurythmy teachers from the SEKEM school went …
Greening the Desert Update: Solar energy in Use
A few months after the start of the “Greening the Desert” campaign, the first pivot system can now be run mainly on solar energy: 255 solar panels are producing …
Sister initiatives: Sinal do Vale in Brazil and SEKEM
SEKEM congratulates the initiative Sinal do Vale in Brazil to its 8th anniversary! According to its founder Thais Corral the initiation of this local-global learning center for the transition to …
Impressions of the Conference on Solutions for Scaling up Agroecology
Last Thursday, the World Future Council Members, three Alternative Nobel Prize winners, government representatives from Egypt and Germany, scholars, experts in the field of agroecology, and international associations’ heads got …
Securing a World of Climate Resilience, Prosperity and Peace.
World leaders identify solutions and call for immediate action As the youth takes to the street and the Amazon continues to burn, Councillors of the World Future Council and Recipients of the Right Livelihood …