About Loans for Cows and Other Stories
The SEKEM Initiative celebrates its 40th anniversary this year as well as decades of stories with friends and partners which go back a long way. “Today, much more than a …
Kick It Like SEKEM
What do the former member of the Austrian national football team, Gilbert Prilasnig, and SEKEMs CEO Helmy Abouleish have in common? A charity football match! SEKEM Friends Association Austria hosted …
SEKEM Will Introduce Egypt’s First Probiotic Supplement
Probiotics are live microorganisms, which are commonly known as good or friendly bacteria. It is unfamiliar to consider bacteria as something useful. We used to take antibiotics to kill harmful …
Team Up against Desertification: UNCCD Partners with the WFC
Together, the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD) and the World Future Council (WFC) will cooperate in the fight against desertification and land degradation which is a key element …
Learning Out of The Box
To be themselves, think critically and to become change makers — this is what SEKEM wants children to be. The first SEKEM crowdfunding campaign just raised more than 21,000 USD. With …
Refugee Project of SEKEM Austria Started Successfully
It is also part of the holistic approach of SEKEM to support people, who have been negatively affected by life and have to be given special support. Currently for example …
People in SEKEM: Heba Mosalam
Similar to Archimedes, the ancient Greek physicist, who once cried out loud his famous quote “Eureka!” which means “finally I found it!” after discovering the physical mechanics of floating bodies …
Helmy Abouleish: Life is Great
“Life is great” – this is Helmy Abouleish’s exemplary motto. So simple on the one hand, for Helmy Abouleish however, as profound as characteristic. Anyone who knows him a bit …
On Our Own Behalf: New SEKEM Website Online
Consistent with the beginning of the New Year, a fresh and completely revised appearance of the SEKEM website awaits you at www.sekem.com. In recent months, SEKEM’s public relations department has …
SEKEM Medical Center: More than 1800 Patients Are Cured of Hepatitis C
In the framework of contributing to the Egyptian governmental campaign to combat Hepatitis C virus (HCV), more than 1800 patients had been completely cured by SEKEMs Medical Center until now. …
“Art Consists of Contrast and Suspense, Like Life Itself.”
All SEKEM is characterized by colorful paintings. In classrooms, offices and residential buildings – in the hotel, in the university, and in every corridor there are the most diverse, mostly …
Support for New Sustainable Development Projects between Egypt and Germany
At the beginning of November, members of the Executive Board of the German SEKEM Friends Association, the SEKEM Foundation and the State Ministry of the German state Baden-Württemberg visited SEKEM. Dr. …
With SEKEM Reisen to the Treasures of Egypt
12 years ago, Dietmar Kreuer founded SEKEM Reisen (SEKEM Travel) with the aim to offer tourists the opportunity to experience the sustainable and holistic approach of SEKEM by themselves. With …
Logo for SEKEMs Entrepreneurship Center for Social Impact
A few days before launching SEKEMs new Entrepreneurship Center for Social Impact (ECSI), Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development (HU) organized a logo-design competition between its students. At the launching event, …
Fun and Bee Stings: New Playground at the SEKEM Farm
In the middle of the nature at the SEKEM Farm, SEKEM children can now enjoy playing and practice climbing. Two swings, a balancing beam, a two-storey tree house and several …
Circus in SEKEM
In October an impressive circus performance took place at the SEKEM Farm. In the roman theater, Rosalie Schneiter and Aurelia Eidenberger showed artistic stunts on a slack line and a …
SEKEM Celebrates 39 Years of Sustainable Development
“Despite ecological challenges and economical obstacles, we achieved ongoing development and progress – SEKEM is not only celebrating the past 39 years of success, but we also look to 2017 …
SEKEM is an Encouraging Example: Interview with Hannes Jaenicke
The German actor and environmental activist Hannes Jaenicke recently visited SEKEM. In an interview with SEKEM News he tells about his new project with the initiative, about the benefits of …
After Hassan Fathy and Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish Egyptian Mozn Hassan receives Alternative Nobel Prize
The Egyptian feminist Mozn Hassan and her organization “Nazra for Feminist Studies” receive the 2016 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. After the Egyptian architect Hassan …
The Caravan is Moving On
In August another “Music Caravan” moved on the grounds of SEKEM Farm. The quartet, consisting of Amira Reda, Konstanze Abouleish, Rafik Costandi and Marko Skorin performed five concerts in the …