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Dear reader,
we've collected some stories about SEKEM, its companies, network and activities for you. We wish you an interesting read.
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Your SEKEM Public Relations Department - May, 2019
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The disposal or organized reuse of waste, especially plastic, is a particularly challenging problem in Egypt. Only about 60 percent of the waste is collected and less than 3 percent recycled. Garbage is burned illegally and pollutes the air and groundwater. SEKEM runs its own waste separation and waste management on the main farm already for a long time. Now …
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Recently, Heliopolis University (HU) was honoured by a visit from Dr. Michael Braungart, innovator in the field of sustainable development and co-founder of the concept of Cradle to Cradle (C2C). He spoke for an interested audience of students and staff in particular from the Faculties of Engineering and Business and Economics. Corien Hoek from the Dutch SEKEM Friends Association …
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On the 8th of April, Prof. Dr. Evert Du Marchie van Voorthuysen, a Dutch expert from the renewable energy sector, gave a lecture at Heliopolis University (HU) on the contribution of solar power in Egypt to solving the climate change problem. Wiekert Visser, a committed SEKEM friend from the Netherlands, attended the lecture and summarizes his impressions for the SEKEM …
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The 49 year old Ahmed Salah Abdel-Halim spent 24 years, nearly half of his life, working in SEKEM as a teacher – although he started his career life unknowing what he wanted to do. “I was only certain of my love for Mathematics and my desire to be in an unusual environment and experience new things,” he says. A place …
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About 40 participants from Organic agriculture institutions from Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Africa and supporters from Europe recently got together on SEKEM Farm for 3 days in order to start working on Regional Knowledge Hubs for Organic Farming in Africa. The project is initiated and financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic …
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Now the second phase of the EU funded project InnoEgypt begins where 40 out of 150 startups receive full incubation support, including technical, legal and business consultancy, in addition to a seed fund of 250,000 EGP. Ten of the 40 young companies will receive their incubation in coordination with SEKEM on the campus of Heliopolis University …
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The first half is already done: since March, SEKEM has been able to raise almost 179 000 Euros for its currently running Greening the Desert project in Wahat El-Bahareya, where 63 hectares of desert land shall be reclaimed for sustainable food production and community building. On the SEKEM Farm in Wahat El-Bahareya SEKEM started its new project: Greening 63 desert …
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The SEKEM Shop now offers carbon credits by which you can reduce your own footprint and at the same time support the Greening the Desert Campaign. The returns from the carbon offset certificates will support SEKEM in reclaiming 63 hectares of desert land on its farm in Wahat El-Bahareya. The available certificates are generated from SEKEM's afforestation projects in the …
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SEKEM Head Office
3 Cairo Belbes Desert Road
P.O.Box 2834 El Horreya, Heliopolis
Cairo, Egypt
Tel.: 0020 2 265 88 124
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.sekem.com
News: www.sekem.com/en/news/
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