Club Med helps us create a distribution channel for embroidery, from left to right: Firas Adil consultant Fondation Club Med, Christian Guillaume, and Jamal Jakir, Resp. Shop network.
Our local president, Christian Guillaume, and our stylist, Robert Merloz, show the embroidery products they distribute from Tazert, successfully in Morocco and Europe.
The Foundation Club Med and Fondation Coeur Maghrébin now have an agreement that bind their local associations in Morocco (CMG, Constance Nora, MW, Nathalie Prost).
Founder Martin de Waziers is personally committed to the security (under the authority of Khalifa) and maintenance (under that of Malika) of the Monastery.
Malika (right) is assisted by Naima the embroidery workshop that thrives thanks to our President, Christian Guillaume, and our excellent stylist, Robert Merloz.
Founder Martin de Waziers visited Hassan Saleh, head of the farmers’ cooperative in Tazert to congratulate him for the well drilling in the olive grove; tests to come!
Schoolbag distribution campaign in Tazert following the donation made by the representatives of the College Pierre-Galery (15500 Massiac) in May 2013
Official acceptance of work on the drilling site for Tazert’s olive grove and congratulations to the team led by Mohammed Dadi: Hassan Saleh, Iddir Abdoune, Rachid and his drilling aides
Thanks to a generous personal gift from a private donor, we just started digging for water in Tazert’s olive grove
Song and Piano Concert given for the profit of the Foundation, headed by Solange Vallancien, piano Emmanuelle Moriat with a special guest appearance by Martin de Waziers, founder.
FCM had its third Management Committee under the helm of the Fondation Roi Baudouin (Marguerite Beauduin, Aimery de Schoutheete, Françoise Pissart et Martin de Waziers)
as last year, FCM accompanies the start of the primary school year with school stationeries supply that our President gives to each of the 200 students, a fundamental support in the education of rural youth
Martin de Waziers regularly visits the Community which has succeeded the Franciscans arrived in 1931 to support local populations (clinic, food aid), 80-year presence for the service of others
Already two years since we laid the groundwork of FCM, the founders (Guilhène de Cidrac and Martin de Waziers) surrounded by the Office of the Local Association (left: Habib Kibari, VP and Mohamed Dadi, treasurer; right: Christian Guillaume, President)
The rural bled of Tazert stretches for miles in the mountains which does not promote neither the access to education for young people, nor the literacy of isolated female population ; the Foundation funded a room class in the village Agri, 7km upstream
2011 International Year of Forest used (see also reforestation page) to accompany a local cooperative, El Lahad el Jadid, in the grant of a public olive grove of 18Ha; the photo shows it from angle to angle, black and contrasted because unmaintained for a while.
Her Royal Highness, Princess Diane de France, honored us with her visit (27/10/11) where she discovered delightfully the embroidery workshop and ordered some for her with the person in charge, Malika, who showed her all the products
Yassine, the sport coach of the primary school animates both young girls and men: he is supported by FCM for the school year 2011-2012; he is also member of CAT.
Brahim Bik distributes schoolbags for the beginning of the school year: this year, FCM subsidized the delivery of 165 schoolbags and school equipment to pupils who began primary school.
the young men and women are trained by volunteers who come from Europe (here is Cécile David in their midst; she followed Odile Lemanceau et Catherine Ternoir).
The relay is provided with nine young from Tazert that have decided to pick up the torch and restore the image of the village; they train people on the eco-clean and create their own association (here with Arthur Leroy-Beaulieu).
As we launched beautiful initiatives in our Pilot Village, Tazert, the former Governor of the Region, Bouchaïb El Moutaouakil, hosted us in Tahanaout; here with our Founder, Guilhène de Cidrac, and our treasurer, Mohamed Dadi (6/5/11).
Boosting a bled, it is also participating in its culture and create events such as a sponsored concert by an artist who came from France to give it in front of a delighted audience (Tazert, 4/16/11).
The first event of AFCM to create a network of Marrakchi buyers and local potential sponsors occurred on 8/12/10 during an order of "place mats for Christmas."
An important event was the choice of the first rural area we were ready to support, and the meeting with Sister Assunta, Malika Bik and her brother Brahim Bik, here in front of their association (October 2010).