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Morocco launches first survey on handicapped
Morocco, Culture, 7/15/2004
A national survey aiming at improving conditions of handicapped in Morocco has been launched recently, announced on Tuesday the Family, Social Action and Solidarity department.
State Secretary in charge of family, children and handicapped persons, Yasmina Baddou, told the national TV channel TVM that Morocco aims to enhance handicapped persons' conditions and their social integration through collecting infirmity-related data.
The survey, the first ever national-wide, will concern some 66,000 people, including 6,000 handicapped. It will be conducted with the help of the European Union, within the MEDA program (EU's main financial instrument for the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership).
Data gathered by the survey will be used to make a national plan seeking handicapped integration according to the nature of their infirmity.
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