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Moroccan Activist Honored in Belgium for 60 Years of Work with Single Mothers and Abandoned Children
Tuesday 10 March 2020, by
The president of the "Solidarité Féminine" association in Casablanca was honored for her commitment to single mothers and abandoned children.
Aïcha Ech-Chenna has been fighting for the well-being of underprivileged women and abandoned children for 60 years already. It is therefore as part of "Women’s Rights Week" that the Belgian Senate, at the invitation of Senator Farida Tahar and the president of the "Orphans of the World" association, Ismael Almoravid, that the president of the "Solidarité Féminine" association in Casablanca was honored in front of the cream of the Belgian political, academic and associative world.
Among the guests were party leaders such as Rajae Maouane, Ahmed Laaouej and Zakia Khattabi Abtoy, Mayor Pierre Kompany Bis, the Moroccan Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, Advisor Naima Belkhatir, the President of the Mimouna Belgium association, Maurice Tal, the Secretary General of the Jewish Museum of Belgium, and many other personalities.
It was at the invitation of the Ilya Prigogine Higher Education Institute in Brussels that Aïcha Ech Chenna testified about her experience with single mothers and abandoned children in Morocco, before an audience of students, health professionals and the academic staff of the Erasmus campus.