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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 - September, 2019
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SEKEM News App for Your Smartphone
Have you seen our new SEKEM News App? Have you experienced the convenience of getting great content directly onto your smartphone? Download the app now - totally for free!
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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 Award, who gathered at SEKEM during the past days, call for immediate action to secure a world of climate resilience, prosperity and peace at a World Future Forum. Solutions exist “Solutions exist. We can …
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Malak, Reham Elshazly’s daughter is her pride and joy – the 15-years old was already at SEKEM’s Kindergarten and is planning to study at Heliopolis University. For eleven years, Reham has been a part of SEKEM’s community now and malak was always close to her. Like many of the longstanding employees, she has tried out various roles, positions and experiences …
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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 a sustainable future was strongly inspired by SEKEM and the friendship with its founder Ibrahim Abouleish. Now, both organizations, together with Home for Humanity in Hotonnes, France, are becoming sister …
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Last Thursday the 29th of August, SEKEM celebrated the first day back to school and welcomed the new pupils. Unfortunately, still not every child in Egypt has the opportunity to go to school. By modern and holistic educational approaches, SEKEM School wants to offer students space to develop their individual potentials. The curriculum is strongly influenced by the Waldorf education …
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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 together in a conference which took place in Heliopolis University to discuss solutions for scaling up agroecology. Dr. Auma Obama, (second from left) councilor of the World Future Council and …
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Africa is the second largest continent of our planet in size and population, with an estimate of 1.2 billion people residing over the space of 30 million square Km. It also contains around 30% of global mineral reserves. The region is home to the world’s largest arable land mass; second largest and longest rivers (the Nile and the Congo); and …
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At the SEKEM Farm in the Western Desert in Wahat El-Bahariya dry land is being made fertile. The campaign “Greening the Desert” aims to green 63 hectares of desert soils. And where fertile land grows, more and more people reside. The employees of the Wahat Farm, as it is called in SEKEM, are now receiving extensive trainings and benefit from …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDvHncThwFA A few months after the start of the "Greening the Desert" campaign, the first pivot system can now be run entirely on solar energy: 255 solar panels are producing 85 kWh renewable energy. In addition, the construction of the second pivot plant has begun, which will soon be greening another 50 Feddan of desert land. The agricultural project …
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SEKEM and the Social Initiative Forum announce the opening of the registration for this years forum in Egypt on the topic "Individual Potential Unfolding for the Future". People can now register and choose between different ticket options. On the new Website all information on the Social Initiative Forum 2019 at SEKEM are provided: program, speakers, tickets, sightseeing and more. From 12 …
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How did the vision of the SEKEM founder Ibrahim Abouleish become reality? How is this social innovation working and how does it affect people’s lives? How can an efficient economy, a healthy social life and a living culture develop together? How can partnership between east and west build peace and prosperity? To give you the opportunity to explore a sustainable …
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