{"id":24105,"date":"2023-03-09T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/?p=24105"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:35:48","slug":"international-womens-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/international-womens-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Morocco: Literacy program empowers women toward sustainability<\/a>, Esi-Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For International Women’s Day, the High Atlas Foundation team is\u00a0honored to share with you highlights and milestones from the first year\u00a0the Family Literacy program\u00a0we are implementing in the\u00a0Marrakech-Safi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Beni Mellal-Khenifra<\/a>\u00a0regions of Morocco, which is financed by the European Union.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0program is multi-faceted, including Imagine empowerment workshops, literacy classes, and business and agricultural training for over 1,000 women.<\/p>\n

This week and throughout the month, we invite you to recognize and applaud the women we work with in Morocco\u00a0who are creating\u00a0the lives they most want and who act as the driving forces in their families and communities.<\/p>\n

With gratitude,<\/p>\n

T<\/a><\/strong>he HAF Team<\/a><\/p>\n

Support HAF Women’s Empowerment<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the Family Literacy Program<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
HAF’s Family Literacy program has given more than 1,000\u00a0women from rural areas a chance to improve their lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, these women\u2014in groups from\u00a040 different communities<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the Beni Mellal-Khenifra and Marrakech-Safi regions\u2014joined together to discuss their goals and dreams, contributing their individual voices to group decision-making.<\/p>\n

Each group completed a four-day, rights-based \u201cImagine\u201d workshop of\u00a0self-discovery<\/strong>,\u00a0reflecting\u00a0on and gaining insight about their innermost desires for their futures.<\/p>\n

They began the journey of furthering their education through\u00a0literacy classes<\/strong>\u00a0taught by women from their own villages who were trained through the National Agency for the Fight Against Illiteracy. And they started and grew\u00a0business cooperatives<\/strong>\u00a0to sell goods for additional household income.<\/td>\n

In this second year of the program, the women\u00a0will continue with their literacy lessons and the development of their cooperatives.<\/p>\n

Preschool lessons<\/strong>\u00a0for their children will also commence. By learning together and reading together at home, the concept of ongoing family literacy is anchored within the household and throughout the community.<\/p>\n

Thanks to this program,\u00a0HAF is helping to reduce illiteracy among rural women and girls and improving equity and gender equality<\/strong>\u00a0through personal and educational development.<\/p>\n

Women thus empowered become\u00a0models of achievement<\/strong>\u00a0for other women, inspiring their family members and mobilizing their communities toward sustainability.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Family Literacy in Numbers: Year 1<\/strong><\/h1>\n