CCSM members show solidarity with the children of the High Atlas
All the members of the Committee of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Morocco – including the Ambassador of Switzerland to Morocco, Mr Massimo Baggi – accompanied by their families, visited on 8 December 2018, in the Marrakech region, the village where the Association Les Enfants Dar Bouidar is located (see box). And it was Mr Huber Hansjörg, President and founder of the association, who guided them around the village, between the school, medical dispensaries and mosque. For all participants, it was an opportunity to meet the orphans housed in the village and to talk with them. The Committee members then enjoyed a meal prepared by a renowned chef at the village restaurant. They were then able to enjoy a meal at the village restaurant, prepared by a renowned chef.
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- Monday 7 January 2019
A week later, on 15 December, other CCSM members, accompanied by Mr Hubert Hansjörg, set off on a solidarity walk towards the village of Taghia, five hours’ drive from Marrakech, in the High Atlas. Using donkeys, they carried five tonnes of warm clothing for the village’s 200 children. “In Morocco, there are 10,000 abandoned children. These hundred or so children in the village are a privileged minority. and there will always be some,” concluded Mr Huber Hansjörg, a true ambassador for his project, which places people in general and children in particular at the heart of its concerns.
The Association Les Enfants Dar Bouidar
Founded in 2011 by Huber Hansjörg, a Swiss retiree, the Association Les Enfants Dar Bouidar cares for abandoned children and orphans in the Marrakech region. Aware that every day 20 children considered illegitimate are abandoned and stigmatised by society, the association’s members work to ease the trauma of abandonment and counter social isolation. With the ambition of creating ten villages of the same type in all four corners of the Kingdom, the association hopes to change the destiny of around a thousand abandoned or orphaned Moroccan children.
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