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Library for 5000 Moroccan Berbers

Help rebuild library in Morocco

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Summary

This project provides four remote Moroccan villages a library through the restoration of an historic building. Literacy & knowledge are increased through cultural preservation. read updates from the field

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$20 - A library table and chair
$25 - Resource Books
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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Illiteracy prevents a majority of rural Moroccans, especially women, from integrating into the modern marketplace. With increasing influence from foreigners and very little development support from their government a conflicted youth is emerging in the Zawiya Ahansal region of the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Library access in this remote region will prepare the children for a successful life in the globalizing world increasing literacy, knowledge, and adaptability.

Activities

Restoring their cultural icon, the Igherm (kasbah), into a library will boost cultural pride while library access will educate many future generations; increasing literacy, global understanding, and tolerance of other cultures.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $31,130
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $37,070
Total Funding Goal: $68,200

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will provide access to books, newspapers, and magazines to four villages and over 5000 people, increasing literacy and tolerance. Knowledge leads to cross-cultural understanding and the ability to function in the modern world.

Project Message

Where is there a place (in the world) where demand will not be on the knowledge of reading,writing, and following the news? Demands of life were different. Now there is sentiment on studies.
- Tahir, Elementary Teacher, Zawiya Ahansal, Morocco

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Cloe Medina Erickson
Project Developer/Manager
103 North 5th Street
Livingston, MT 59047
United States
4062222071
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Erickson Creative Group
103 North 5th Street
Livingston, MT 59047
United States
406-222-2071
http://www.ericksoncreativegroup.com

Learn more about Erickson Creative Group and the project team.

This project is being run by a socially-oriented for-profit company.

From time to time, GlobalGiving posts projects run by socially-oriented for-profit companies, whose work includes charitable activities in the public interest. ALL projects on GlobalGiving have a bonafide charitable purpose, and are required to submit extensive documentation for due diligence. GlobalGiving reviews all due diligence, and vets the projects to ensure they are legitimate, well-run, and satisfy IRS guidelines for international grantmaking as well as the new voluntary guidelines for anti-terrorism set forth in the Patriot Act. Provided projects meet all these criteria, the IRS allows public foundations such as GlobalGiving to make grants in support of this work.

Projects in this category are required to undergo an expenditure review - meaning they must detail the charitable activities for which they are requesting funding, and provide an actual review of how the funds were spent.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Morocco and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Morocco, read the Human Development Report on Morocco or the Wikipedia entry for Morocco.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 29, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 15, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

Spring '10 Construction Preparations

By Cloe Medina Erickson - Project Director, January 29, 2010 03:22 PM

Erickson meets with the association Amezray SMNID.

While the region has been blanketed in cold and snowy weather the project team has been busy preparing for this spring and summer's work to begin.

Construction on the igherm is slated to restart April 1. First, the team of local craftsmen will finish the martoub, protective lime plaster coating, on the exterior of the building. Next, with funding from the French Association Amis de Amezray, they will completely restore the igherm's roofs and rebuild the six towers' historic ornamentation. This will complete the exterior renovation of the igherm.
If time allows before the heat of summer sets in, they will begin the renovation of the interior in preparation for the book stacks and also the renovation of the community room to house the computers donated by The Nobelity Foundation.

The local association, Amezray SMNID, has sent in a request to the Moroccan National Library for books. At the end of April Cloe Medina Erickson will bring a group of donors to visit the project and see the impact of their dollars first hand. And in May and June a group of university students will study with Erickson and work on the igherm.

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