{"id":5901,"date":"2019-08-01T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yes-morocco.com\/highatlasfoundation\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:37:36","slug":"anamer-womens-hearts-are-filled-with-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/anamer-womens-hearts-are-filled-with-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Anamer Women\u2018s Hearts Are Filled with Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANAE BENAADIM<\/em>
\nHAF VOLUNTEER<\/em><\/p>\n

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On the 15th<\/sup> of June, the team left HAF office in Marrakech in the morning toward Anamer village in Seti Fadma commune which is about 55 km out of the Red city. The team included Said El Bennani, HAF\u2019s Project Manager, and Hassan Ait Ouatouch, HAF\u2019s Project Assistant, Ilyas Dkhrissi (social network manager, photographer and film director), Abdeljalil Ait Ali, HAF’s field Manager, Toda Bazaz and myself. The HAF team accompanied a group of American students from different universities.<\/p>\n

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The meeting started hosting us warmly by serving tea with olive oil, honey, olives and different kinds of Moroccan sweets from a family of the village, which is a beautiful tradition in Morocco. We then headed to climb the mountain for meeting the 23 women aged between 15-60 years old in a house. We had a discussion with the women to know their demands, why they are looking forward to creating a cooperative and how they want us to help them; they said: \u201cWe want you to show us the first steps to make a cooperative because we do not have an experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The women have mentioned the difficulties that they have faced every day. They have talked about their daily life which is only limited to doing house works. Also, girls are dropped out of school at an early age. Thus, they had to stay at home and are not allowed to go out without male permission until they get married, which means they will fall the same routine circle as their mothers. The women wished to change their situations to better conditions. The American students and the women exchanged thoughts and pieces of advice about doing cooperative, and how they can face challenges to become stronger in Moroccan communities and markets. There is a sentence that took my attention and show that the woman’s heart is filled with hopes: \u201cIf there is a competition, it will be good for us\u201d. They clearly expressed their thoughts and the reasons of creating a cooperative with us. the hopes that they are looking forward to achieving them after creating a cooperative are:<\/p>\n