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TunisiaETF Green Skills Win for Morocco’s Eco-Nursery gives boost to expand its know-how
For the people behind Morocco’s Bouregreg Med-O-Med Gardening School – the country’s first eco-nursery and education centre – being one of the three prize winners in the European Training Foundation’s Green Skills Award 2023 has been a true blessing.
The nursery and training school, built on an 8-hectare site near a rehabilitated old landfill site in Salé, Morocco, placed second in the competition – beating more than 600 other projects that applied from around 60 countries.
Established in 2018, designed and managed by Spanish-Moroccan non-profit cultural institute, FUNCI in association with the Islamic Culture Foundation (ICF), the school was conceived by FUNCI president Cherif Abderrahman Jah.
Featuring a raw earth building, photovoltaic solar-powered electricity, the school teaches an entirely ecological gardening model that pays close attention to irrigation, water sources, and the propagation of plans endemic to dry, hostile environments.
The school helps address youth unemployment in a country where nearly three-quarters of young people under the age of 24 have never had a job: the 3-year diplomas offered to an annual intake of 90 students are based on a curriculum developed and tested in Spain, adapted to Moroccan standards by Spain’s University of Seville, and accredited by Moroccan authorities.
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