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School in Ait Quafqa, Tafaroute, Morocco
The Hannan School was founded in June 2002 by Hmad and Hannah Naatit, with a vision to bring education and hope to the Berber village of El Borj in the remote Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
A recent World Bank report quoted Morocco as having one of the worst standards of education in the Arab world. To help combat this problem Hannan has a long term aim to construct a modern, spacious, well equipped school to provide a good standard of easily accessible education to the local community.
In the shorter term the organisation has purchased a smaller building in the village which acts as a pre-school and community centre. Older children in the village still find it difficult to receive an education as they have to travel a long way to reach a school for their age group. Hannan is therefore trying to help the village with this issue.
The charity also supports the healthcare and wellbeing of the wider community with, amongst other schemes, the provision of funding for medicines, the purchase of chickens and goats for many families in the area as well as the development of small family business initiatives.