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Meet Our Team

We're a diverse team united by a desire to plant seeds of literacy, critical thinking, peace, equality, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental stewardship in this world. Headquartered in California, with grassroots teams in rural Kenya and Morocco.

Kenya

We founded the grassroots nonprofit Oliveseed Kenya CBO as the base for our community work here.

Kitango Karia

Sewing Trainer & Lead Seamstress

Kitare Kipeen

Caretaker & Guard

Sosio Koriata

Caretaker & Guard

Morocco

Publications Team

Larbi Arbaoui, Manager & Reviewer

Barb Mackraz, Manager & Reviewer

Philip Brebner, Judge

Mohammed Hassim, Judge

Mouhcine Abdechchafi, Reviewer & Judge

John Hockenberry, Coach & Judge

Alice Calaprice, Editor

Khrouch Hafid, Book Designer

Zakariaa Tmalah, illustrator

Hajar Azizi, Illustrator

MLP Library Partners

Mohammed Hassim

Ministry of Education

The Reader Is Father of the Writer

Abdelhaq Elkouar

Erfoud

A Good Reader... Is a Good Leader

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Oliveseed is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Donations in the U.S. are tax deductible as allowed by law.

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© 2014-26 Morocco Library Project

© 2017-26 Oliveseed Foundation

© 2021-26 Oliveseed Kenya

Oliveseed Foundation

P.O. Box 60713

Palo Alto, CA, USA 94306

Oliveseed Kenya

P.O. Box 77

Narok, Kenya 20500

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