2009 Opus Prize Winner: Aïcha Ech Channa

Aicha Ech Channa is something of an icon in Morocco when it comes to human and civil rights for single mothers and their children. For more than 30 years, it has been their defenders and public speaker. In 1985, the Association Solidarité Ech Channa Féminine founded in Casablanca to provide services for the unmarried and their children. It began in a basement and now runs three day care centers and vocational schools, two restaurants, four kiosks and a hammam (Fitness Center andspa). More than 50 women receive training each year in cooking, baking, sewing and accounting. Participants are also provided daily child care, counseling and medical treatment available. As a Muslim Ech Channa is a sense of justice in the value systems of all religions rooted inspired. For too long, she says, single mothers were stigmatized, their babies were taken away. The child belongs to the mother, and we have hundreds of cases as evidence that this can work.



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