Earthquake in Morocco: "A day’s payroll" for national solidarity

"We are all in deep pain and sadness in the face of this disaster, natural certainly, but unfair for all the souls we have lost. [...] The shock is so immense that there is not a Moroccan who does not want to help in their own way. Whether through blood donation, materially, financially or in any way. Our national NGOs are fully mobilized, like our army, our government and our state apparatus," can be read in his open letter to business leaders present in Morocco.

Jamal Belahrach in particular calls on the latter, speaking of the solidarity account to be opened following the Royal High Instructions, "to mobilize all employees in Morocco, with their agreement of course, to give one day’s payroll to this fund (of solidarity) which will be used by the competent authorities to accompany this painful period that our brothers and sisters victims of the earthquake are going through."

Such an approach "will once again show that Morocco is a Nation united in the most difficult moments as in the happy moments," estimates the president of the House of the Moroccan Diaspora, noting that this drama comes after the epic of the Atlas Lions at the 2022 Qatar World Cup, a "happy sequence" that has proven that one "can love Morocco without really knowing it. That is the magic of Morocco and the DNA of Moroccans."

"This affection is now found with the global wave of solidarity, particularly that of our historical partners such as France with its diaspora, its NGOs and its elected officials," he concludes.