HM the King visits Oukacha prison in Casablanca

Casablanca - HM King Mohammed VI visited, on Wednesday, Oukacha prison in Casablanca, where the Sovereign enquired about the results of the school and university year as well as of vocational training in prisons across Morocco, notably those of Casablanca.
 - The Sovereign enquires about the results of the school and university year as well as of vocational training in prisons across Morocco;

- HM the King hands equipments and checks to former prisoners, who hold projects;

- The Sovereign gets acquainted with social actions undertaken by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the reintegration of inmates, benefiting women prisoners and their children ;

- HM the King inaugurates a multifunctional medical center, worth 15 million dirhams.

On this occasion, the Monarch handed high school diplomas and bachelor's degrees to 20 inmates.

HM the King also handed former prisoners, who benefited from the support of post-prison center of Casablanca and who hold projects, equipments and checks to facilitate their access to the job market.

Thus, the Sovereign handed equipments and checks worth 369,670 dirhams to 30 former inmates. Thirty four other projects are underway and a total sum of 1.5 million dirhams is earmarked for these projects this year.

HM the King also got acquainted with social actions benefiting women inmates and their children.

Subsequently, the Sovereign inaugurated a multifunctional medical center that was achieved at a total cost of 15 million dirhams.

HM the King toured the facility which has a capacity of 240 beds. It provides to Oukacha’s inmates various services in dialysis, ophthalmology, dental surgery, addiction, general medicine, radiology, and pharmacy.

HM the King inaugurates in Casablanca social and educational center for youth, a center for women.

Casablanca - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Tuesday in Casablanca, a social and educational center for youth in Moulay Rachid neighborhood and a center for consolidating women's skills in the old Medina, worth 10.5 million dirhams.
 
- The two projects are part of the approach adopted by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, giving priority to training and qualification as a means for social and professional integration;

- The social and educational center for youth will contribute to social integration of young people from poor families;

- The  center for consolidating women skills will benefit 500 women per year;

   The two projects provide for training and qualification as a means of social and professional integration, by giving priority to developing the capacity of beneficiaries who generate their own integration projects. 

    The social and educational center for youth will contribute to social integration of young people from poor families of Moulay Rachid neighborhood and other neighborhoods.  

    It is meant to develop the skills of beneficiaries for a better integration into the job market. It will also contribute to educating and providing preschool education to the children of the neighborhood.

    The center, which was built on a state-owned land of 1,963 square meters, offers various services mainly through training workshops in the culinary arts, tapestry work, traditional sewing, and computer science.

    It was achieved at a total cost of 5.5 million dirhams, funded by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity.

    Worth 5 million dirhams, the center for consolidating women skills, which will benefit 500 women per year, aims at supervising and supporting this social segment to create cooperatives in order to improve their social and economic conditions and promote their financial autonomy.

    It was financed by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH).

HM the King launches in Mohammedia three projects for mother and child, the elderly and fishermen

Mohammedia - HM King Mohammed VI laid, on Monday in Mohammedia (north of Casablanca), the foundation stone to build a social-protection centre for mother and child, a social protection centre for the elderly, and a centre for accommodation, training and support for fishermen, to be built by by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, for 15.5 million dirhams.
 
   - The social-protection centre for mother and child is a space for accommodation, training and counseling;

   - The centre for the elderly will contribute to integration, protection and improvement of the living conditions of this social segment;

   - The centre for fishermen is a structure for vocational qualification and support for small vendors of fish operating in the Mohammedia port.

     The first 4,500 sq centre, with an accommodation capacity of 40 mothers and 40 children, will provide the mothers beneficiaries with a training in cookery and traditional dressmaking, literacy courses, legal protection and counseling, along with a space of care for their children.

     As to the 1,553 sq social-protection centre for the elderly, it is intended to provide care in terms of accommodation, food, health care and well-being of the penniless, homeless elderly.

    It will contribute to their integration, protection and improvement of their living conditions.

     The accommodation and training centre for fishermen, which will be built on 1,634 sq, is designed to serve as a structure for accommodation, vocational qualification and support for small vendors of fish operating in the Mohammedia port by supporting the marketing of fishing products within a regulating framework.

HM the King chairs new Ramadan religious lecture

Casablanca - HM King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, flanked by HRH Prince Moulay Rachid and HH Prince Moulay Ismail presided, on Monday at the royal palace in Casablanca, over a new religious lecture in a series of such lectures held during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
     The lecture was delivered by advisor to Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Mohamed Jamal Hassan Essayyed Abou El Honoud, on “Moroccans and the holy city of Al Quds”, drawing on the following Quranic verse: “Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).”

    After discussing the special place of Al-Quds in the history of mankind and Muslims, the speaker stressed that the history of the Holy City is related to the prophetic mission of the monotheistic religions since the prophets Ibrahim, Daoud, Suleiman and Jesus Christ until Prophet Mohamed.

     He highlighted the symbolism of the story, in the Qur'an, of the journey by night of Prophet Mohamed to Al-Aqsa Mosque and his ascension into heaven, which symbolically refers to the continuity of the prophetic messages since Prophet Ibrahim..

    The prominent place of the Al-Aqsa mosque stems from being the first Muslims’ qibla (the direction faced in prayer) until the second year of the Hegira, he argued.

    The particular interest that Moroccans have attached to Al-Quds, he said, went back to the first centuries of Islam, the city is an important step in the route of the pilgrims and scholars coming from the Maghreb.

    He cites as evidence the military assistance that Moroccans provided to their brothers in the Middle East to counter the Crusades’ invasion during the middle age.

    Turning to modern times, the speaker referred to the beginning of the implementation of the Zionist plan to despoil Palestine, more particularly the sites with high spiritual symbolism in Al Quds, including the Wakf property of Moroccans.

    The vast majority of houses in Hay Al Maghariba (Moroccans’ Quarter) in the old city of Al Quds have been demolished and turned into a Jewish quarter following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

    In 1969, the arson of the Al Aqsa Mosque by Zionist extremists was the trigger for the creation, at the initiative of late King Hassan II, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which held its first summit in Morocco, and whose role was crucial in the defense of the city thanks to Al-Quds Committee, presided over by the King of Morocco, said Hassan Abu Essayyed Al-Honoud.

    Following the lecture, HM the King Mohammed VI was greeted by several Muslim figures and scholars coming from all over the world.

    On the same occasion, the Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs presented to HM King Mohammed VI lot of the Department’s publications during the current year.

    These are the books: “The movement of the Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and its scholars in western Sudan from the 8th to 13th centuries of the Hegira," by Professor Abderahman Mohamed Migha, “The book of Khalil and its impact on modern studies,” by Professor Mohamed Al-Aji, “Addor Annatir and Al-Adb annamir” of Malki, studied and annotated by Mohamed Boutarbouch as well as the issues 397, 398, 399 and 400 of the magazine “Daouatou Al Hak”.