HM the King inaugurates in Oujda centers for the disabled and addicted youth
Oujda - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Thursday in Oujda's Lamsalla neighbourhood, a regional center for the disabled and a center for addicted youth carried out by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity for 14.8 million dirhams (1.9 million dollars).
- The regional center for the disabled offers medical and socio-educational supervision for patients with physical or mental illness.
- The center for addicted youth provides healthcare, in addition to diagnosis, prevention and awareness raising on drug addiction.
The center for the disabled will offer medical and socio-educational supervision for patients suffering from physical or mental illness in the eastern region.
Built over a surface area of 5,000 m², the facility comprises mainly a medical-social center and a socio-educational and sports center.
The medical-social center is aimed at detecting disabilities, and providing healthcare and rehabilitation for patients. It has two treatment rooms, three physical therapy rooms, a room for psychomotility and another for orthopedic appliances.
As for the socio-educational and sports center, it offers educational and pedagogic monitoring for disabled kids and youth to ensure their autonomy and facilitate their integration in social life.
It also seeks to promote disabled sports. It comprises notably six training workshops and classrooms, a physician's office, a rehabilitation hall/gym, and a special needs swimming pool.
The center for addicted youth is meant to provide healthcare for patients with addictive behaviors.
It will raise the public's awareness on the means to prevent drug addiction, with a special focus on pre-teenagers, teens and young adults.
It will also conduct diagnosis actions on drug addiction through carrying out epidemiological surveys in schools and colleges, as well as psychosocial research.
Stretching over 3,500 m², the facility includes notably psychotherapy treatment rooms, a nursing room, a meeting room, a recreational hall, a sports hall, and a research room.
HM the King inaugurates post-prison center in Oujda, worth 3 mln dirhams
Oujda - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Wednesday, a post-prison support center in Oujda, carried out by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the reintegration of prisoners, at a total cost of 3 million dirhams (about $ 386,000).
- The Sovereign was briefed on the social actions developed by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the reintegration of inmates in the prison of Oujda.
- HM the King handed checks and various equipment to 36 ex-prisoners to fund their projects, worth 700,000 dirhams.
The post-prison support center of Oujda, like those already operational in Agadir, Casablanca and Salé, was established as part prisoners' reintegration process that was initiated by the Foundation with its public and private partners as well as with civil society representatives.
The Sovereign toured the new facility, which is meant to integrate inmates into family and working lives.
The center is staffed by social workers to help prisoners fund their projects, mainly through micro-credits and equipment grants.
HM the King was also briefed on the social actions developed by the Mohammed VI Foundation in the prison of Oujda.
On this occasion, the Sovereign handed checks and various equipment to 36 ex-prisoners to fund their projects, worth 700,000 dirhams.
HM the King inaugurates a center for hospitalized children, hemodialysis center in Oujda
Oujda - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Tuesday in Oujda, a center for hospitalized children and a hemodialysis center at the Al Farabi hospital, carried out by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity at a total cost of 11.5 million dirhams (about $1.4 mln).
- The center for hospitalized children will allow patients to perform social and cultural activities.
- The hemodialysis center will improve access to medical care.
The Sovereign was briefed on the various facilities and means to provide medical care to sick children and people with kidney disease in the best conditions.
The center for hospitalized children will enable patients to perform social and cultural activities. It will also allow children of school age to continue their educational process.
Built on an area of 800 square meters, the center consists, among others, of a communication space, a media room, music room, playrooms, reading rooms and a kitchenette.
The hemodialysis center was built on a plot of 1,030 square meters. It has a lobby, a room for isolated cases, a water treatment room, a biomedical workshop, a storage room, offices for doctors and changing rooms for patients.
The center will improve access to medical care for a greater number of patients.
HM the King enquires about several housing projects in Oujda, worth 430 mln dirhams
Oujda - HM King Mohammed VI enquired, on Monday in Oujda, about several housing projects, worth 430 million dirhams (about $ 55.30 mln).
- These projects reflect HM the King’s strong will to improve the quality of housing and urban landscape of Oujda.
- The Sovereign hands keys to the first beneficiaries of housing projects with low property value and of economic villas.
The projects, carried out by the Al-Omran group, reflect HM the king’s strong will to improve access to housing and promote social and economic development.
They are meant to enhance the quality of housing and urban landscape of the capital of the East, meet the growing demand in terms of quantity and quality, provide the city with modern social and economic facilities and enable disadvantaged families and those of the middle class to have access to housing in better conditions.
On this occasion, HM the King followed a presentation on the project to expand the Jorf Lakhdar Al Hadaba housing estate, carried out as part of the social housing program, worth 100 million DH. The first project, which covers an area of 2.5 hectares, consists of building 272 apartments (75 m2 each) within 24 months at a total cost of 68 million dirhams.
Regarding the Al Hadaba project, which was built on an area of 3024 square meters within 24 months, it provides for constructing 128 housing units (apartments of 81 m2), worth 32 million dirhams.
HM the King also was briefed on the housing project with low property value in the city of Oujda, which involves the building of 1,558 units.
The Sovereign heard explanations on the second phase of Riad Isly project to construct housing units for middle-class population.
Carried out by the Al-Omran group on an area of 8 hectares, the second phase consists of building 179 economic villas and several local public facilities as well as developing green spaces.
Afterwards, HM the King handed keys to the first beneficiaries of housing projects with low property value and of economic villas.
The Monarch also visited a show flat, built as part of a housing project with low property value.
HM the King chairs in Jerada ceremony to present INDH's 2011-2015 second phase
Jerada - HM King Mohammed VI chaired, on Saturday in Jerada, the presentation ceremony of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH)'s 2011-2015 second phase for an amount of 17 billion dirhams (2.1 billion dollars).
- 17 billion dirhams mobilized for the five programs of the INDH's second phase
- Broadening the INDH's scope to include 701 rural communes and 530 disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods
- HM the King presides over the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement on Jerada's economic and social upgrading program for 341.1 million dirhams
Interior Minister Taieb Cherqaoui presented before the Sovereign the INDH's results since its launch in 2005 and the second phase's broad lines which are based on promoting of the Initiative's philosophy, maintaining the 2006-2010 phase’s four programs, and adopting a territorial upgrading program to benefit populations in remote zones.
The second phase’s objectives will enable the broadening of the INDH’s scope to include 701 rural communes, with a poverty line of 14% instead of an earlier 30%, and 530 disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods with a population of 20,000 inhabitants, and the launch of a territorial upgrading program benefitting 22 remote provinces, Cherquaoui said.
He added that the budget allocated to implement the five programs of the 2011-2015 phase amounts to 17 billion dirhams.
The first program is aimed at eradicating poverty in the rural area, the second seeks to fight social exclusion in urban zones, while the third is meant to erase precariousness.
The fourth is a cross-field program elaborated to reinforce the capacities of the social fabric and support actors in charge of human development through training and fostering communication.
The fifth, dedicated to territorial upgrading, will benefit one million people in 3,300 villages.
The Interior Minister presented the results of the INDH’s first phase (2005-2010), underlining that over 22,000 development projects were carried out within this period.
On this occasion, HM the King presided over the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement on Jerada’s economic and social upgrading program for 341.1 million dirhams.
It is devised, among other things, to promote health services through the setting up of a unit specilized in providing healthcare for silicosis patients in Jerada.
The agreement provides also for bolstering drinking water equipment in several rural communes and water purification in the cities of Jerada and Ain Mathar.
The Interior Minister handed the Sovereign two books: “the inquiry of perception, the results of 2005-2010 achievements”, and “the proceedings of Agadir’s human development forum”, in addition to a book entitled “human develoment: a shared destiny”.
HM the King inaugurates 'HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan' indoor sports hall in Oujda
Oujda - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Friday in Oujda, "HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan" indoor sports hall, worth over 49 million dirhams ($ 6.2 mln).
- The project reflects the royal strong commitment to promoting national sports.
- The Sovereign enquires about the project to build a local socio-sports center.
The inauguration of the hall reflects HM the King's permanent concern to provide the youth with necessary infrastructure to develop their talents in all sports activities.
The Sovereign toured the facility, which was built on a covered area of 5,000 square meters.
It has, among others, a multipurpose field, bleachers with a capacity of 2,000 seats, a gallery, as well as training and meeting rooms.
On this occasion, HM the King was briefed on the project to set up a local socio-sports, for a total cost of 4.8 million dirhams.
The project, to be built on a total area of 5,000 square meters, will include a sports field, a multipurpose room, tutoring room, a day nursery, shops, a cafeteria and a parking.