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Kokiris are looking for an enthusiastic intern!

This is a treat for you, if you are looking for an international internship. This isn’t the kind of internship where you copy, print and type in numbers into a datasheet. This is an opportunity to not only create interdisciplinary programs based on Kokiri values, but also to coordinate our conservation projects with our friends…

by Hadi El Rabbat

End of Season and preparing for the Next

Kokiris have returned home now. As we have done several environmental and awareness programs, we have also set the basis for our project that is to come the end of 2020. Creating and overseeing a local research & education center, a “Community Knowledge Space”, that documents knowledge in addition to making this knowledge adaptable for…

by Hadi El Rabbat

Environmental Awareness Program at Local School

Jakob and I looked at each other… Standing in front of the crowd of school children, we remembered that we were both not the kind of students who would be obedient to the teaching authorities, so why should they be? Now we were in the opposite position. We were the “teachers” trying to convince the…

by Hadi El Rabbat

Cob Oven – Iglu

Last week we implemented an idea we had: What if we build a cub oven? At this time, the community buys their bread from an outside market. This means, low quality food, plastic and dependence on the outside market. We realized that if we introduce the idea of an oven and motivate the locals to…

by Hadi El Rabbat

Economic Awareness Program – Using Bamboo

After we got together with village leaders, we decided to invite the community to conduct an economic awareness program. In the workshop we discussed the importance of bamboo as a sustainable resource that is widely available, native to the region, and that has a steady economic short and long term demand in the market. Bamboo…

by Hadi El Rabbat

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