“The houses are the same, the streets are the same, the people are the same. Nothing has changed and everything has changed. Our relationships have changed. Violence used to bring us together, now it is love.”
— Abdessalam Benhamza, Youth, community Hay Zouitina, Tangier, Morocco, 2019
“We experience, witness and realise the beauty of “A Humanising Society” where our communities, schools, organisations, systems and societies are the creative and cocreated expression and reflection of our humanity.”
— Tamkeen For our humanity foundation, 2021
“We are the Gardener And the Garden. ”
— Tamkeen for our humanity foundation, 2018
“You have woken up the child that had died in us. We promise you, wherever we will be appointed as teachers, we will never let the child in our students die.”
— Bachelor of education students, Ecole Normale Supérieure Tetuan, Morocco, 2017
“With Tamkeen, we have found the formula for something that is magical. We have humanised our school.”
— Principal of Allal Fassi High school in the outskirts of Tangier, 2015
“I am here today with you (Tamkeen workshop with peers) and I am in the future. I am in the future and I am building the future. I will leave and go back to the present and to the past that brought this present. But I promise you, I will come back to the future to build the future.”
— Student, Pluridisciplinary Faculty of Larache, 2018
“I chose to conduct my research in the mirror of Tamkeen because it opens an epistemic horizon beyond studying structures or measuring effectiveness. It offers opportunity to reflect on the meaning of governance within the Moroccan constitutional context...”
— Ibrahim Chafhi, Doctoral student, 2024
“What astounded me is, I have my values and principles, but they were implicit. Tamkeen made the beauty of my values and principles explicit.”
— Deputy Director of the Regional Academy for Education & Training, 2026
“Thank you for your support. What we are talking about (The Club of Rome) you (Tamkeen) are living it. And that makes all the difference.”
— Mamphela Ramphele, co-president of The Club of Rome, 2022
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Reflections of Humanising Societies

A shared logbook of a safar, a journey in the shoreless ocean of our humanity.

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I Ocean.

Sometimes I reach the deepest of the deep blue,
sometimes I float its stilness,
sometimes I try to escape its overwhelming waves and remember…

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