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 […]
Newsletter Earth Day activities April 2018
14th of May 2018: 10 years Sahara Roots 2008 – 2018 Dear friends of Sahara Roots, It is with great pleasure that we can inform you that today the Sahara-Roots Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary!! We are very proud of what we have accomplished but we realise that we never could have achieved this […]
International Earth Day April 2018
In partnership with the Taragalte and Sahara Roots Foundation, and with the support of the Provincial Council of Zagora, the Ministry of Water and Forests, representatives from National Education department, the Ministry of Tourism, the CPT of Zagora as well as the community of Tagounite and that of Mhamid, L’Association Zaila for Culture and Sustainable […]
Sahara Roots Newsletter January 2018
So, with the knowledge of the elders, with the Groasis waterboxx’s, and with Permaculture techniques such as wadi digging, we hope to create a small divers, green oasis within the existing oasis as an example of what can be done to fight desertification and to show that not all is lost. Please read more: Sahara Roots […]
Turning the Saharan desert into an oasis!
GROASIS update: ”A Green Musketeer plants one tree per year”. What if you want to plant a tree, but you don’t have the space or opportunity to do this? Let us plant a tree for you! In association with the Sahara Roots Foundation, we have started a donation project. In October 2017, the first 10 […]
Masseurs massage for PEACE … and for Sahara Roots!
We were really impressed by the number of people who wanted to receive a massage and it was a great afternoon! All the donations that we received for the massages were donated to Sahara Roots Foundation. A lovely purple tin was placed in front of the purple tepee and there were photos in A-4 format […]
