King Mohammed launches construction of center for homeless children

Morocco's King Mohammed VI launched this Friday the construction of a center for abandoned children, a project of the Mohammed V solidarity foundation.

The center will be receiving abandoned children aged above 7 and extend them psycho-pedagogical support and a training to facilitate their integration in society.

The center, financed by the foundation at a cost of 2.5 million DH (25,000 euro) will be carried out in partnership with the Moroccan league of children protection and the Moroccan government. It will include dorms, restaurants, workshops, a kitchen, green spaces and other dependencies.

The sovereign was accompanied by Bernadette Chirac, spouse of the French president, Sheik Mohamed Syed Tantaoui, Imam of Al Azhar university of Cairo, Maria Pia Fanfani, chairwoman of the "Together for Peace" foundation, and Mustapha Bousmina, science professor at the Laval university, in Canada, and recipient of the prestigious Canadian Steacie prize.