Together for a Forest in the Desert
Greening the Desert is not an empty advertising slogan in SEKEM-Wahat, located over 350 km southwest of Cairo, but a daily lived reality. The local community works in the scorching …
SEKEM in der Neuen Züricher Zeitung
Am 29. März ist ein umfangreicher Artikel über SEKEM und die Begrünung von Wüste in der Neuen Züricher Zeitung erschienen. Ägyptens Traum von der Begrünung der Wüste lebt fort Um …
Many New Highlights in the Desert: Wahat Update #13
On our desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, we are currently reclaiming several hundreds of hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture and supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is the latest update. …
Wahat-Update: It Continues to Grow in Every Sense
There is probably no other place in Egypt where so much is developing in such a short time as in Wahat! Not only the fields are growing more and more, …
Renewable Energies in Wahat
On our desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, we are currently reclaiming several hundreds of hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture and supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is the …
New Families and a School in the Desert: Greening the Desert Update
On our desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, we are currently reclaiming another 63 hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture and supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is the latest …
People in SEKEM: Marwa Tohamy
“Every man and woman needs to find their sense of purpose, and I have found mine in SEKEM.” Marwa was born in Zagazig, a city in the eastern Nile delta, …
People in SEKEM: Amr Sabahy
“We should always be open to admitting mistakes and confessing that we are smarter today than we were yesterday,” says Amr while driving his jeep across the fields of the …
Culture in the Vast Desert under a Sky Full of Stars
Connecting with nature, starting from scratch, learning from each other – those and similar impressions have been expressed by different SEKEM and Heliopolis University co-workers that recently spent several days …
The Future of Greening the Desert: We Will Continue!
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOnLAvz7dY[/embedyt] On our desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, we have reclaimed 63 hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture, supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is the latest …
A New Year with New Steps Towards our Vision for a Sustainable Future
As we send off the year 2019 and welcome the New Year, SEKEM takes another look at its Vision 2057 to set the goals for 2020. Zero waste and circular …
Unbelievable: More than 84% Achieved for Greening the Desert
On our desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, we are currently reclaiming 63 hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture and supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is the latest update. …
Greening the Desert Update: Solar energy in Use
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDvHncThwFA[/embedyt] A few months after the start of the “Greening the Desert” campaign, the first pivot system can now be run mainly on solar energy: 255 solar panels …
Culture in the Desert: Eurythmy for Farm Employees
At the SEKEM Farm in the Western Desert in Wahat El-Bahariya dry land is being made fertile. The campaign “Greening the Desert” aims to green 63 hectares of desert soils. …
First Harvest and Cultural Activities in the Desert
On its desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, SEKEM wants to reclaim 63 hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture and supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is update number 4! …
It’s Getting Greener and Greener: Update on “Greening the Desert Campaign”
All the efforts that have been put in our project to green 63 hectares of desert land show first results. A few weeks after we started planting the first seeds …
Desert Greening Started! Update on the Campaign
The first half is already done: since March, SEKEM has been able to raise more than 190 000 Euros for its currently running Greening the Desert project in Wahat El-Bahareya, …
SEKEM Launches Campaign for Greening the Desert and Ethical Investment
Support the Campaign! Since 1977, the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt has already reclaimed and cultivated more than 680 hectares of desert land. Back then, greening the desert had been already an important …
People in SEKEM: Ismail Elsayed
When walking on the SEKEM Farm during days like these, you might notice beautiful sunflowers – although it is not summer, the season in which the flowers usually bloom. The …