فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
Taza region on Friday witnessed the launch of a major program to develop and expand social welfare institutions, as part of the National Initiative for Human Development, to mark the 25th anniversary of His Majesty King Mohammed VI’s accession to the throne.
The provincial governor, Mustapha Maaza, supervised the launch of this program from the Children’s Home for Children and Students Ghiatha-Meknasa in Taza. This project is the result of a collaboration between the Agency for Economic and Social Recovery and Development of the North and the Regional Committee of the National Initiative for Human Development in Taza, and aims to support people in a vulnerable situation and strengthen the human capital of the next generation.
The total cost of the project is 13 million and 600,000 dirhams, distributed between 10 million dirhams from the National Initiative for Human Development fund and 3 million and 600,000 dirhams from the Agency for the Revitalization and Economic and Social Development of the Northern Regions.
The project aims to train and rehabilitate women, provide a suitable space for shelter and care for women in a difficult situation, improve the living conditions of female students, reduce the phenomenon of school dropout, especially among girls, and enhance the conditions of academic achievement.
On the same occasion, the regional official and his accompanying delegation were briefed on the program for the construction, adaptation and expansion of the student homes in Taza region for the years 2023 and 2024, which is being implemented at a cost of about 56 million and 10,000 dirhams, within the framework of a partnership between the National Initiative for Human Development, the Agency for Economic and Social Recovery and Development of the Municipalities and Regions of the North, and the Ministry of Solidarity, Social Integration and Family.
This program aims to improve the living conditions of 2,000 male and female students, reduce the phenomenon of school wastage, enhance the quality of the education system, and improve the school environment and learning conditions.
In a statement to MAP, Azzedine Loukili, head of the social work department at the Taza Regional Municipality, said that the program includes 22 institutions in the region and aims to rehabilitate these institutions according to the standards of the new generation of social welfare institutions, providing all the necessary requirements for the beneficiaries. The program aims to rehabilitate these institutions according to the standards of the new generation of social welfare institutions, providing all the necessary requirements for the beneficiaries.
For her part, Shaimaa Akram, a project officer at the Agency for Economic and Social Recovery and Development in the North, explained that the program to upgrade and expand care institutions in the Taza region reflects the fruit of a partnership between the agency and the provincial governorate, and targets women in a difficult situation and students of student homes, who number 390 male and female beneficiaries.
Source: Fes News Media
