Moroccan Businesswoman Donates $1.2 Million to Build Rural High School

17 February 2019 – bySaid@Bladi · 1 min read

An initiative that one would like to see repeated a little everywhere in Morocco. A businesswoman has just announced the construction, with her own funds, of a high school in a rural commune of Ouled Fares, in the Settat region.

The agreement on this project was signed on Friday between the province of Settat, the provincial directorate of National Education and Najia Nadhir, reports the MAP, which specifies that she will put 12 million dirhams on the table to finance this project.

She will also release the sum of one million dirhams to finance the renovation work of a primary school, consisting of the replacement of three "prefabricated" classrooms, the construction of new classrooms, including one dedicated to preschool, and four sanitary blocks, as well as the restoration of the perimeter wall and the playground, adds the MAP.

The construction by citizens of schools "should inspire other wealthy citizens, because it would be equivalent to the construction of a mosque given its benefits for the youth of the region, which is the cornerstone and hope of our country," explains a local official quoted by the press agency.