GDF will restore the underused grounds of the Lalla Aouda Saadia Girls' School to provide food and ornamental gardens, while teaching about environmental stewardship and Marrakech's cultural heritage.

The project will plant 4,000 trees with Moroccan children around their schools and villages. The trees include almond, cherry, fig and walnut, which flourish without pesticides. Ninety-six schools are participating, each will receive 40 trees. HAF's staff will work with teachers and communities and discuss with students social and environmental benefits of tree planting. The project assists tree planting with U.S. students in DC and discussions about Morocco, volunteerism and the environment.

This project provides four remote Moroccan villages a library through the restoration of an historic building. Literacy & knowledge are increased via cultural preservation, book and computer access.

In semi-arid Commune of Ait Wafqa, outside of Tafraoute in southern Morocco, 80 percent of the population are women. They manage their family farms and most of the associations in the area, since men seek or have found employment in urban areas and abroad. This project will plant 10,000 olive trees and install pressure/drip systems to irrigate them. Rural women and children will directly benefit economically and environmentally in an area faced with significant land degradation and poverty.

This project seeks partnering support to implement a Cooperative whose Members are 610 women and girls from 304 rural households in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The Coop's programs are in: 1. Agriculture development (fruit tree nurseries and iris plant and vegetable growing) and value-added fruit drying for wholesale domestic markets; and 2. Training in maintaining tree nurseries, fruit drying and processing, business management and marketing, participatory planning, and literacy.

This project seeks to provide potable water for 5 villages in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains. Approximately 70% of rural Moroccans lack piped potable water. Unhealthy drinking water causes frighteningly high infant mortality (many families lose half their children to water-borne diseases), shorter life spans and reduced energy for livelihoods. Further, time spent to procure non-potable water adds to the already substantial burden of women and girls and prevents their participation in education.

This project provides experiential participatory facilitation training for 10 students of Morocco's public Hassan II University located in Mohammedia and 15 elected members of local Communal Councils. Participants are trained in facilitating participatory planning with 2 communities in need (1 urban and 1 rural) and assisting in implementing 2 priority development projects that are identified by community members during the training. Participants will manifest democratic planning of development.

In response to the demand of rural Moroccan communities for fruit trees and their need to transition from subsistence to modern agriculture, this project will build a community tree nursery totaling 50,000 cherry and walnut saplings (25,000 of each) in the High Atlas Mountains. These are most desired trees among local people because they do not require pesticides, have a high market value, and local people already possess vital skills in maintaining the trees and the marketing of their fruit.

This project will plant 120,000 almond and pomegranate saplings in a nursery on land provided in-kind by the Jewish Committee of Morocco, near the burial site of Rabbi Nissim ben Nissim in the Essaouira province. The trees will be distributed for free to each household of the the surrounding disadvantaged villages. When the trees mature after 6 years, the fruit yields will generate for the rural communities approximately $7,500,000 - economically and environmentally benefiting 10,000 people.

This project will train 12 traditional birth attendants in rural Morocco; teaching them basic hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, midwifery skills and care for newborns.