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Literacy for Moroccan Girls
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Summary
Promotion of school enrollment/retention, particularly for rural girls. Adult literacy classes, particularly for women. Encouraging national educational policy reform and other local initiatives.
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Received $2,755 from 40 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
An estimated 2.5 million girls of primary-school age live in Morocco's countryside, where less than half attend school. When they do, 80% drop out between grades 1-6. Girls generally marry before age 14 and help with chores and child-rearing. There is strong social pressure not to attend school, and when they do, often there's hostility and they leave discouraged. NEF is working in a range of ways in isolated Berber villages in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains to reverse that.
Activities
Development of Parent-Teacher Associations for community involvement; closer cooperation among communities, teachers & administrators. Adult education classes and extracurricular learning. Renovation of schools.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,755
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $77,445
Total Funding Goal: $80,200
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Creates national model for rural educational reform. Confronts gender issue by engaging women in PTAs & adult literacy. Education will improve quality of life and stimulate local economic development. Antidote to terrorism.
Project Message
It's hard to overestimate the importance of this opportunity for women and girls in these isolated rural areas. This project has lifted many from virtual obscurity...society is changing.
- Hafida Agouze, NEF Project Field Coordinator
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on January 18, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 03, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Literacy Classes begin January 2008
By Sarah Atwood - Development Associate, January 18, 2008 04:06 PM
The Near East Foundation is using the income from GlobalGiving to provide literacy classes - along with book bags and school supplies - to 172 women living in the villages of Asseghmou, Ait Alla, Timicha, Tasseguiwalte, Ait Aafan, and Aguerzgua. To accomplish this, NEF has partnered with local professors and facilitators, who are administer courses beginning in January 2008.
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