Aicha Ech-Channa awarded Elisabeth Norgall honour of Frankfurt women club

Founder of the association "solidarite feminine," Aicha Ech-Channa, was awarded the "Elisabeth Norgall 2005" prize by the international women's club of Frankfurt, says a communique of the German embassy in Rabat.

Ech-Channa has been pleading for the cause of women for more that three decades. In 1985 she founded the association "solidarite feminine" to give legal, economic and psychological help to single mothers, provide them with housing and employment and support their children.

Elisabeth Norgall 2005 award is granted every year alternatively to a German woman and a foreign woman in recognition of their exceptional efforts to overcome the difficulties encountered by women and children.

Ech-Channa was awarded this prize for her "impressive" personal commitment for women rights, according to the communique, which added that the award ceremony will take place on March 9, in Frankfort.