The boarding school, to accommodate 70 girls, will help fight school drop-out affecting particularly young rural girls. It will be built over 560m2 area near the Moulay Ali Ben Al Abid secondary school. It will be equipped with a kitchen, a refectory, a computing room, a laundry room and several other facilities.

   On this occasion, the Sovereign was given explanations on the projects of building an olive grinding unit in the Talsint rural commune and a milk collecting center in the Figuig province.

   The modern olive grinding unit, to cost 1 million dirhams (about $ 126,000), will have a storage capacity of 5,000 litres of olive oil, while the milk center, which will be equipped with sterilizing and freezing technologies, will cost 2.5 million dirhams ($ 315 000).