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Help us buy SIM cards to enable girls' remote learning in rural Morocco during the shutdown
Due to the coronavirus, the government shut down schools in Morocco on March 16. The girls of the Education For All, Morocco (EFA) boarding homes have returned to their families...
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KAHINA™ turns 10, episode 5: Designing a brand
In many ways, the design process was one of the most challenging parts of creating KAHINA. While I had a clear vision for the brand direction in my head, that...
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Argan Oil, The Kahina Difference
I'm just back from Morocco where I visited the argan forest and the women who produce our argan oil. Droughts from the past seven years in Morocco are resulting in...
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Back to School with Education For All Morocco
With the girls of Dar Asni While on the calendar we still have almost two more week of summer, the past two weeks officially marked “back to school” and the...
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The Power of an Image
In this age of the ever-present selfie, it is hard to imagine a world where many people have never even seen a photograph of themselves. This is often the case...
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Prickly Pear Seed Oil NEW from the women of Kahina Giving Beauty
Prickly pear seed oil came onto my radar shortly after I discovered argan oil in Morocco in 2007. Numerous suppliers in Morocco were touting the anti-aging effects of the hard-to-obtain...
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Help Save the Argan Forest
Despite preservation efforts, the argan forest has declined from 100 trees per hectare (approx. 2.5 acres) to 30 trees per hectare in less than a century according to a study...
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Special Fundraiser for Education For All - 100% of Sales from Necklaces Through Dec. 21
Education For All, Morocco, helping girls in rural Morocco go to school, is hoping to raise money to provide a solar powered water heating system for their newest boarding home...
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Help us support Education for All, helping girls in Morocco go to school
Very few girls from the rural communities of Morocco get the opportunity to continue their education beyond primary school, which ends at third grade in Morocco. Secondary schools, mostly several...
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KAHINA Helps Cooperative in Need
One of the challenges we face in our mission of giving back is to identify programs that will help the Berber women of the argan region in a meaningful way....
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An Argan Cooperative Near Biougra
My Berber hostess Zaina insists I return for a visit to a cooperative in a remote mountain village followed by lunch at her house for couscous, although we were scheduled...
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A visit to an argan cooperative near Agadir
We start the day at the fish market where we pick out 8 pounds of various fish to bring to Zaina to cook for us. I thought we would just...
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Signature Statement - What Signatures Say About Personality
I read recently that your signature tells a lot about who you are as a person. If your signature slants upward, then you are an optimistic person. If it slants...
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Making a Mark: Helping the Berber Women
Most women of the argan cooperatives are illiterate and some are just learning to write their names through literacy programs provided by the cooperatives. Meeting these women for the first...
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ZAHRA AZIZ
All of the women have been prepared for my visit and it is obvious that Zahra Aziz has draped herself in her finest fabric in honor of my arrival. When...
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Fatima Achkich
Fatima, who has two children she is raising on her own, has worked at the cooperative for 9 years. When I ask about her life, she tells me that she...
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Aarbia Amzil
Aarbia claims to be 70, but doesn’t know her age exactly. With no children of her own, Aarbia has adopted her 30 year old niece so that she has someone...
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Ija Obella
Ija is one of the senior members of the cooperative at 80 years old. She has worked at the cooperative since it was founded 11 years ago. While her stern...
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Taarabt Benfenzi
Taarabt Benfenzi has worked almost 9 years at the cooperative, an obvious source of pride for her. Like many of the women, Taarabt’s husband is without work. Her income provides...
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Zahra Elkatim
Zahra, whose name means flower in Arabic, is a 61 year old widow with 7 children, one of which is physically handicapped. The money Zahra earns working in the co-op...
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Fatima Baskar
Fatima is married with 2 children. She tells me that her husband is a very good man, very supportive of her and proud of her for working in the co-op....
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Zaima Imchurga
60-year old Zaima has worked at the co-op for 6 years. Zaima’s husband works on others’ farms as a hired hand, but, because there is no work for him now,...