Earthquake: Al-Haouz students resume classes in Marrakech high schools

Students in the quake-stricken province of Al-Haouz on Monday resumed classes in high schools in Marrakech.

This initiative, which also concerns administrative and educational personnel, is as an alternative to guarantee that the 6,000 students previously enrolled in six schools located in the most affected municipalities (Talat N’Yacoub, Ighil, Ouirgane, Anougal and Azgour) can resume their learning under normal conditions.

After playing the national anthem, the students joined their classes driven by a strong determination to transcend all difficulties and persevere on the path to excellence.

Accommodated respectively in the Mohammed V and Ben Youssef High Schools, these students benefited from psychological and social support sessions supervised by experts in the field in order to help them overcome the impact of the disaster, said Hasnaa Abou Zia, specialist in social and psychological support at the Provincial Directorate of National Education of Marrakech.

These sessions offer students the opportunity to express their suffering following the earthquake, she told MAP, noting that the objective is to provide them with personalized psychological treatments to help them resume their education in good conditions.

Naim Mansour, Director of the Ouirgane Middle School, one of the educational facilities which suffered material damage following the earthquake, said that the transfer of students to the Mohammed V High School aims to guarantee them the resumption of classes under normal conditions, highlighting the mobilization of educational and pedagogical personnel to ensure the integration of these learners in their new environment.

For his part, Salem Abbass, Director of the Tinmel High School in the commune of Talat’N’Yakoub, pointed out that the transfer operation of the 175 students in the Ben Youssef High School in Marrakech took place smoothly, highlighting the great interaction of parents who welcomed this initiative.