Article 6ET32 ‘We need to start again’: Morocco’s earthquake puts girls’ education at risk

‘We need to start again’: Morocco’s earthquake puts girls’ education at risk

by
Ruth Michaelson and Dounia Z Mseffer in Casablanca
from World news | The Guardian on (#6ET32)

Charity that runs boarding houses to help girls in remote Atlas mountains get to school scrambles to find out what facilities remain

When a powerful earthquake struck deep below Morocco's Atlas mountains last Friday night, the school year had only just begun. Staff from a girls' education charity who had stayed late at work suddenly found themselves jolted by the force of a 6.8 magnitude quake as the walls of their offices crumbled around them to expose the cold mountain air.

Many of the girls who we know are at least alive have lost mothers, brothers, fathers, family members and it looks like many of their houses have also been completely destroyed," said Sonia Omar, the head of Education for All Morocco, her voice cracking. The charity supports a network of six boarding houses for girls across the Atlas, all situated in villages around the epicentre of the quake.

Continue reading...
External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://feeds.theguardian.com/theguardian/world/rss
Feed Title World news | The Guardian
Feed Link https://www.theguardian.com/world
Feed Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024
Reply 0 comments