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The educational program, carried out in partnership with the Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sports, the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication and UNESCO and in collaboration with the National Institute of Agronomic Research, the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan, and other partners, consisted of the creation and implementation of an educational kit, to discover the local heritage of Taroudant, designed by the Foundation and education and heritage professionals.
The educational kit allowed students to discover the cultural heritage of their city, as well as its components and forms of expression in architecture, urban planning and landscape, indicates a press release from the Foundation.
More than 700 participants in the program attended the ceremony, marked by the organization, in addition to classroom activities, of outings and visits to heritage sites for students and teachers supervised by heritage experts and specialists, adds the same source.
Launched in 2022 in Rabat, the “I discover my heritage” program has more than 10,000 beneficiaries, recalls the Foundation, noting that this program is being implemented in Taroudant for the first time since its creation on the sidelines of the Al Haouz earthquake, to raise awareness among young people of the importance of safeguarding cultural heritage in all its forms of expression.
The contextualization of the kit to the local heritage of the city of Taroudant also allowed teachers to benefit from training and capacity building sessions on knowledge relating to the cultural heritage of the region and all its forms of representation, it was specified.
During the closing ceremony held at the Taroudant Cultural Center, participants in the educational program were invited to attend cultural performances highlighting the plastic creations of young college students as well as various artistic performances in a festive atmosphere celebrating the cultural heritage of the city of Taroudant.
These activities demonstrate the Foundation’s commitment to facilitating access to culture and heritage through contextual education and to strengthening the place of cultural and artistic education in educational processes.
During the ceremony, participants from 20 colleges as well as teachers, educational bodies and members of the monitoring committee received certificates of encouragement for their participation in this program and their fruitful efforts which enabled the success of this year’s edition.
The “I discover my heritage” program aims to raise awareness among middle school students and teaching staff of the importance of safeguarding tangible, intangible and landscape cultural heritage and to develop approaches and methods linked to cultural and artistic education within schools.
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