Holcim Awards 2021
“GREAT NEWS” from Sahara-Roots!! During the bi-annual Holcim Awards ceremony for Sustainable Construction at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, last weekend, the Bronze Global 2021 award & the Acknowledgement 2020 award for Middle East & Africa, was presented to our partner Aziza Chaouni architects and the other members of the Joudour Sahara project […]
JOUDOUR SAHARA’S WATER RESERVOIR!
In the beginning there was a piece of land close to the small village of Zaouia, M’hamid El Ghizlane. Due to desertification, sand was slowly taking over this beautiful site with its majestic palm trees. This land lay dormant, waiting. In October 2016 Sahara-Roots agreed with our local partner Halim Sbai, (https://mhamid.guide/en/) to start planting […]
Sad anouncement
We are so sorry to hear that Pieter Hoff, the Dutch inventor of the Groasis Waterboxx®, Growboxx® en Waterfilter Boxx® plant cocoons, passed away on 13 april 2021. We believe that Pieters invention inspired us to plant trees and shrubs in a much more efficient way in our fight against desertification in the dry and […]
8 March 2021: Celebrating International Women’s Day
Combining music and tree planting in honour of International Women’s Day together with the students of the Joudour Sahara Music School. International Women’s Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. We were very happy to learn that Halim Sbaï of the Joudour Sahara Music School in M’hamid […]
31 Dec 20: “Seeds of Hope for the Future”!
We are truly grateful for the wonderful support that we have received from all our sponsors. This support helps us to continue the work of Sahara-Roots that will help to make a difference in the lives of others who are less fortunate than us. Together we can make a difference and bring hope for a […]
July 2020: Involvement in Joudour Sahara Culture Center
See our photo album on the progress of our involvement in the Joudour Sahara Culture Center between 2016 – 2020.
29th March 2020: Patience is needed unfortunately…
Due to the worldwide Corona crisis we will unfortunately not be travelling to Morocco in April 2020 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of International Earth Day. Karin Sluis of Iyoga plants 94 Groasis waterboxxes & trees, a substantial number of Groasis Waterboxx’s received from Guus de Wolf and seguia was constructed. And.. I am happy […]
November 2019 Newsletter Sahara-Roots Foundation
Wishing you all a GREEN, HEALTHY & HAPPY 2020!! For Sahara-Roots this will be a very exciting year! WHY? With many thanks to a wonderful sponsor we are now able to start building an innovative water-reservoir, designed by Aziza Chaouni and her team, in the small village of Zaouia close to M’hamid El Ghizlane in […]
May 2019 Newsletter Sahara-Roots Foundation
Without my love of the desert environment, Sahara-Roots would never have existed. Sharing this passion with others is as fulfilling for me as is planting trees in Southern Morocco. Once every so often I am able to share my passions with people that journey to the Sahara with me whether it is trekking through the […]
Highlights Sahara-Roots 2018
2018 has once again been a wonderful year for the Sahara-Roots projects: We received a fantastic donation of 30 waterboxx’s from Groasis as we are one of the projects that Groasis supports. In November the Sahara-Roots team was once again off to Morocco to check on our tree projects and to prepare our new “Green […]
