Morocco King Mohammed VI has had a busy start to the new year. His Majesty received information about several projects and laid corner stones for some others.
Women in the rural area of Tizegzaouine will have a training center. Built on a site of 1600 square meters, it will have three professional workshops, a classroom and a day nursery. A second project in the rural commune of Ait Zineb will be a girl’s residence hall. It is aimed at helping to keep the girls in school and encourage Moroccan education.
The new hall will include a kitchen, a refectory, a library, a IT room and other facilities. His Highness was given detailed information about a rural development project going on in Zaouivate Sidi Ahmed which is to help to the local people improve their lives by promoting livestock farming and olive oil productions. The King recently opened the Morocco Safi Housing project too.
Foundation stones were laid in Skoura for a facility to help the people in the area sell their handicrafts. As part of Morocco’s anti poverty program, National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), it will help the associations market their wares. While in Skoura, he inquired about three health care centers for mothers and children being built in neighboring towns. Hopefully, these centers will help to lower mother and infant mortality rates in Morocco.
Moving on to Ghessate, King Mohammed placed the foundation stone for a training center for rural women. Another project under his scrutiny is a socio-educational complex. Funded by Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the complex will have a center for the training of women, two workshops of culinary arts, theoretical and literacy classrooms and a nursery. Another project being checked on by the King was a residence hall for 200 youths. This facility is meant to provide accommodations and educational supervision for the youth of the area so they can continue in their education.
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by Carole Morris
