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 …
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Organic Cotton as a Sustainable Alternative
Cotton is one of the oldest crops used in the world and is utilized to make textiles and clothes since more than 8000 years. The oldest tracks of cotton were …
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 …
Sesame Opens the Door to Sustainable Agriculture in the Desert
“Open Sesame!” The magical phrase is already known since the 18th century from the fairy tale “One thousand and one Arabian nights”. Here, the saying is used as magic formula …
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 …
SEKEM at the “Organic Cotton Round Table” in Hamburg
One of the greatest achievements of the SEKEM Initiative was the change of a law in Egypt, which made it possible to abolish the established practice of spraying chemical pesticides …
SEKEM Is an Important Partner in Oikocredit’s Public Relations Work
SEKEM and the International Cooperative Oikocredit are longstanding partners – not only in economic terms. Oikocredit, for example, often presents SEKEM in lectures and at information desks as a partner …
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. …
Debate in Berlin: Entrepreneurship in the Age of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development
“An ambitious global transformation program that opens up perspectives for a better life for millions of people”, said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. …
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 …
“Without Intact Nature, There Is No Intact Society”
Dr. Michael Succow has worked for the protection of nature around the world for decades. In 1997, he was awarded with the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work. With SEKEM …
People in SEKEM: Hesham El Nagar
In the early morning hours, the SEKEM Hotel, probably the most aesthetic building on the SEKEM Farm, still hides behind thick fog. Slowly, not before the sun shines on its …
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, …