FOM Events Calendar

Over the last year, the HAF has successfully completed 6 clean water projects, planted 60,000 fruit trees, trained over 50 students and local officials on participatory development, and developed plans for a new women's cooperative.

The High Atlas Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by former Peace Corps Volunteers, works to establish development projects in rural Morocco that local communities design and manage, and that are in partnership with government and non-government agencies.

Journey to Mecca IMAX Screening

Johnson IMAX Theater, Smithsonian Natural History Bldg 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC
Journey to Mecca, filmed in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, tells the story of Ibn Battuta, the legendary 14th-century traveler. He began his journey in 1325, traveled for almost 30 years, and covered three times the distance that Marco Polo had, or about 75,000 miles. His epic journey from Tangier, across North Africa, the Middle East, Mecca, the Arabian Peninsula, and beyond resonates with adventure and presents a picture of 14th-century Islamic civilization. The film culminates in a re-creation of Ibn Battuta's first Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Journey to Mecca then dissolves into dramatic modern-day footage of the Hajj, recorded in IMAX and showing more than 3 million pilgrims participating in the annual ritual.(2009, 45 min., dir. Bruce Neibaur, English and Arabic)

Moroccan Film Festival
High Atlas Foundation (HAF) is gearing up for its sixth annual NYC reception this fall - a Moroccan film festival! The festival is scheduled for Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th at New York City's famed TriBeCa Cinemas.
Download the festival proposal (PDF)

Peace Corps "50th Birthday" House Parties worldwide March 1, 2011. Contact Tim Resch if you would like to host a gathering of Morocco RPCVs and Moroccans in America on this date

Friday, September 23: Peace Corps staff reunion
Saturday, September 24: Meetings, Country of Service updates, receptions, lunches, dinners, and get togethers organized by Friends of groups at restaurants, embassies, and local venues
Saturday, September 24, 6-10pm (EDT): Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Gala (location TBA)
Sunday, September 25: Program at Arlington Cemetery Amphitheater, visit to JFK gravesite, and march with Country of Service flags across the Memorial Bridge to the National Mall

Peace Corps/Morocco 50th Anniversary Celebration
Memorial Day Weekend May 26-27, 2012 Rabat, Morocco
Celebrate five decades of Peace Corps service to Morocco by over 4500 volunteers. This two-day series of events will include activities hosted by the National Peace Corps Association/Friends of Morocco, Peace Corps/Morocco and the government of Morocco. Returned volunteers are invited to bring family and friends to their sites of service across Morocco before and after the weekend. Read about the start. More to come. Ideas welcome