Speaking on this occasion, Fouad Bouayad, President of the Lalla Asmaa Foundation for Deaf Children, highlighted the foundation's pioneering role in offering primary education to this social category to promote their social and professional integration.

    “Digital hearing aid, cochlear implant, and electronic voice transmission systems make education and re-education easier for deaf children and allow them a better integration in schools,” he said, adding that the vocational training classes (plastic art, computer science, cooking, sewing, embroidery and hairdressing) “will allow them to have a socio-professional integration of quality.”

    He also said that the next graduation ceremony will take place in the new Princess Lalla Asmaa centre for deaf children and youths in Madinat Al Irfane (Rabat), whose foundation stone was laid by HM King Mohammed VI last August 18.

    Bouayad recalled that this new facility, the first of its kind in Morocco will allow the students of the foundation to have access to primary studies up to high school and will provide vocational training.

    He stressed that “this new environment requires us to develop a new educational strategy for in the short term, suitable for the 200 students of the new center, adding that with “our almost 40-year experience and the new structure, the Centre will become a national platform model for children and young deaf.”

    HRH Princess Lalla Asmaa handed awards and hearing aids to the foundation’s students and visited an exhibition by deaf children.

    At the same time, an award of excellence was handed to Her Royal Highness for Lalla Asmaa Foundation for Deaf Children by Past District Governor Lions Clubs International District 416 Morocco.

    Several senior Moroccan officials attended the event, including Health Minister, Yasmina Baddou, Education Minister, Ahmed Akhchichine, Social Development, Family and Solidarity Minister, Nouzha Skalli.