July 7th was a big day as we all met in Casablanca. Ali, who arrived before us, picked us up from the airport in batches: Mel and Dana arrived in the morning, while Ralph and Bachir arrived in the evening. Enthusiasm, as always, was high and we are all happy to be here and work on this project.
Soon after, we took the road to the north of Morocco where we met with PMM’s partner, Association des Femmes Méditerranéennes pour le Development (AFMD). Our hosts were wonderfully kind and equally enthusiastic to meet us. They showed us three of the four schools they service in the Tetouan rural area: Azlah, Ain Lahcen, and Bni Wssim. At every school, we met professors and school directors. We also met students, parents, director of the parents’ association. These visits enabled us to understand the challenges the students face: poverty that makes buying school supplies and clothing difficult for parents, parent’s mentality that does not always value education, difficult unpaved roads and distance from school that make transportation difficult.
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