Trans4m Center Celebrates Anniversary
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the Trans4m Center launches a new website. The website shall act as a “virtual home” for the continuously growing community. Trans4m is committed to …
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the Trans4m Center launches a new website. The website shall act as a “virtual home” for the continuously growing community. Trans4m is committed to …
In collaboration with the Egyptian Bio-Dynamic Association (EBDA), Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development (HU) organized a workshop for 80 of SEKEMs contracted farmers that are applying Biodynamic agriculture all over …
Next to Dr. Ibrahim and Helmy Abouleish, the SEKEM Board of Directors has seven other members. Four times a year, the board meets in SEKEM to discuss the situation of …
Initiated by the Dutch SEKEM Friends Association, Oxfam Novib (Netherlands) funded travel and organizational costs for 30 teachers, who travelled to Egypt to support the Heliopolis University (HU) and SEKEM. …
Series on how SEKEM tries to combat desertification in the four dimensions of Sustainable Development. In the widely known story of The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the narrator’s …
Fertile land is the fundament of Egypt’s economy. Fertile land is needed to live on and to feed the population, but also strongly affecting the economy of a country. Agriculture …
“…creating land where mankind is living together in social forms reflecting human dignity.” “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” A quote by the anthropologist Margaret Mead …
“…creating a place where every human being can unfold his or her individual potential” The right awareness about the fact that fertile land and agriculture are feeding us and that …
Combating desertification by holistic Biodynamic agriculture. Egypt is known as one of the oldest agricultural civilizations on earth. Thousands of years ago, the annual flooding of the Nile left a …
Education is the key to progress and development. An alternative and holistic approach to education is grounded in SEKEM since the early days, in the schools as well as in …
In this year’s May, farmers, co-workers and pupils were invited to the first Day of Preparations in SEKEM. Angela Hofmann, long-standing agricultural coordinator in SEKEM, presented the visitors the eight …
The SEKEM Friends Association Austria is again supporting a better climate in Egypt by planting trees in the desert. Friedl and Hermann Becke share their experiences. Visiting the SEKEM Farm near Minya, reminded …
Although she seems to be in her early twenties, something serious and certain lies in her lovely smile. Walaa Mohamed, a young employee working at NatureTex, SEKEMs company for Organic textiles, …
After the Austrian Ambassador Dr. Georg Stillfried visited SEKEMs Spring Festival a few weeks ago, recently also the Austrian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Andrä Rupprechter, travelled …
In the Sustainability Report 2015 SEKEM shows that the initiative could manage the challenges of the past years. In the cultural and societal fields many activities took place, in agriculture …
In the context of SEKEMs project “Empowering Women for a Balanced Society” a session about gender equality was developed by a group of teachers of the SEKEM School and was …
The Business for Peace Foundation, that yearly honours people with the Business for Peace Award, invited Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish, who received the accolade in 2012, in the beginning of May …
The SEKEM Friends Association Austria is again supporting refugees. In cooperation with the Waldorf School Graz, 15 refugees shall receive a course in the upcoming school year wherein they can …
In Fayoum, the SEKEM Initiative is working together with 16 contracted farmers, who grow mainly herbs according to Biodynamic guidelines. Mahmoud and Ahmed are working with SEKEM since more than …
On April 28, SEKEM welcomed high-profile visitors: The German Ambassador Julius Georg Luy and the Head of Development Cooperation at the German Embassy, Sebastian Lesch, spent one day at the …