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| VIDEO "Escape from the sand" The Sahara is "swallowing- up" Morocco: RTL4 documentary, February 2007. In Morocco 22000 hectares of land disappear under the desert sand: http://av.rtl.nl/web/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/extra/2007/week08/vr_vluchten_voor_het_zand.avi.MiMedia_WM_800K_V9_av.wmv NEWS 2nd prize Yves Rocher environmentally price terre des Femmes in 2009! Yves Rocher has engaged with working towards a better environment for many years and helps to contributes like a bit of in increasing environmental awareness. The Fondation Yves Rocher actively supports measures for the protection and appreciation of plants which includes the environmental price Terre de Femmes - "Women for Nature". These women iare involved with projects that benefit the milieu. The National Awards ceremony for the environmental prize 2009 took place yesterday. The projects of the following "nature women" received prizes for their projects: 1st prize: Antoinette van de Water with the project "Bring the Elephant home ', 2nd prize: Wanda Hebly with her Sahara Roots Foundation 3rd prize: Tineke de Vries with her ature development project "The Flearen". January 24, 2009 In February, the trees would be planted during the Taragalte Sahara Festival, Together with the children of the village in the Moroccan Sahara Mhamid we would participate in a large operation, which include environmental education, traditional music, dancing, as well as planting trees. My family also a part of the organization of the foundation, would be help during this festival as well as with making a documentary film, with a comprehensive report on the festival and the tree planting project as well as provide advice on sustainable development. The Taragalte festival is organized by and for people from this area, but also allows visitors to enjoy and participate in the traditional way of life and music. For more information about the festival please go to: www.taragalte.org Betreft: deelname Margriets Betere Wereld 2008-2009Dear Wanda Hebly, First of all, congradutations with you accomplishment! Out of all the nominations that the magazine "Margriet" recieved in the past months, a selection of 55 women has been made. These women all work uniekly and devoted for a charity. You have been chosen as one of these 55 women and it must be said taht this is very special. With this prize we also recieve a donation of 1500 euro!!! Really super! With this money we would like to help improve the water system for the trees by the improvement of the waterwells or by aiding in the building of nieuw waterwells. Please visit: http://www.margrietsbeterewereld.nl/interactief/members/wandahebly.aspx 30 June 08: "Te Gast in Marokko" We are very proud of the fact that our foundation has been included in the new edition of the travel booklet "Te gast in Marokko". A short story called "My Sahara and me" was written by Kees van Teeffelen and we are very thankful that our initiatives are supported in this way. Please see http://www.tegastin.nl/ 5-9 June 2008: "Nettoyage" Mhamid: The yearly "clean-up" in the area around M'hamid was a big success. Around 200 people participated in this project and there was a lot of attention from the different Ministries in Morocco such as the Ministry of Tourism in Rabat, Ministries of Environment and Education in Zagora. The Zaila Foundation worked very hard to try to help motivate the people from this area in order to show them how important it is to keep your environment clean. Meetings were held with other foundations in the area in order to discuss many new ideas. A comprehensive report of the "Nettoyage 2008" will be placed on our site 14 May 2008: Sahara-Roots Foundation becomes official! The official birth of the Sahara-Roots Fondation took place after the five members of the board signed the documents in the notary office of Ligten & van Ligten in Hilversum on the 14th of May 2008. A champagne cork flew through the air as a sign of the enthusiasm that each board member felt with the start of this new project. The Sahara-Roots foundation is now official! Together with Adriaan, Laurens, Wendelien and Richard Hebly, we are going to work hard in order to reach the aims set by the Sahara-Roots Foundation 29 April 08: Donation from "Silverjet Elegant Resorts" On the 19th of February 08 my college Marja Keuker of Valerius Reizen nominated Sahara-Roots Foundation for an action which was presented by Silverjet Elegant Resorts. Thank you so much for nominating me! It was really great is that we also received one of the prizes! On the 29th of April a check of 1000 euro was presented to Sahara-Roots from "Silverjet". It was a pity that I was not able to be there but Marja was there in my place to receive the check. We would like to thank Silverjet Elegant Resorts for this wonderful prize 18 april 2008: Essence College doneert 45 boompjes After a presentation of photos about the first activities of Sahara-Roots in Mhamid, the new steps have been made for the next 45 trees to present to the inhabitants of Mhamid. A big thank you to all the students and to Cora and Jan. I will certainly give my kindest regards to the people there. See http://www.essencecollege.nl 14 - 18 maart 2008: The first trees are planted in Mhamid Together with two girlfriends we travelled to the south of Morocco to the village of Mhamid where the first activities of Sahara-Roots would be taking place. The Sahara-Roots Foundation works together with the Zaila Foundation and the inhabitants of this area on different projects. We want to help in protect the Moroccan Sahara and help to provide a better future for the people that live here. After planting the first trees together with the children and the inhabitants of the village Oued Mhia, the children all shook hands with us and then received their own copy of the booklet "Me and my Sahara" together pencils and colourful writing paper. Their own booklet was something they never received. See Mhamid Activities December 2007: Thank you, all of the participants and students of the Essence College in Bodegraven. We would like to thank you for donating the first 50 trees for the "Plant a Tree" project in Mhamid. See http://www.essencecollege.nl/ December 2007: Thank you CreditMAS in Hilversum. We would like to thank CreditMAS for sponsoring 200 booklets "Me and my Sahara", that were printed during the autumn. See http://www.creditmas.nl/ November 2007: Thank you Valeruis Reizen in Amsterdam. We would like to thank Valerius Reizen for sponsoring 200 booklets "Me and my Sahara", that were printed during the autumn. See http://www.valerius.nl/ November 2006: Villages on the Front Line - MOROCCO by ALI SBAI Today the main threat to the scarce Saharan grazing lands is not drought but tourism. With over nine million tourists per year in Morocco and Tunisia alone, and the craze for rallies brought on by the Paris - Dakar race, hundreds of thousands of vehicles travel all over the Moroccan Sahara each year. Thanks to GPS, off-road vehicle drivers have become increasingly reckless, causing severe damage to the frail desert ecosystem. It can take decades for nature to repair the damage one 4X4 vehicle can do. Yet, for the surviving nomads of southern Morocco, this is just the most recent of a series of problems threatening their livelihood. With tensions among neighbouring countries, it has become more difficult to cross borders, so they are forced to take refuge in regions that are getting smaller every year and over-graze sparse pasture. And camel thefts are increasing. The nomads' way of life, so finely attuned to the desert, appears doomed as the desert itself becomes ‘desertified'. Ali Sbai was born in a tent to a nomad family. He is making a passionate case for the creation of a network of cross- border reserves to enable the nomads to take pressure off the limited grazing ground and escape the effects of off-road vehicle damage. Zie: http://www.dev.tv/index.php/about_us/about_us_newsletter/whats_new |