Fès is moving thanks also to its women

Najia Tawil She chose to live to help othersPresident of the women's association Al Ahd Al Jadid for crafts and manual work, Najia Tawil has succeeded in changing the daily life of many women in Fès by ensuring them a stable income and financial independence. With few means but a heart of gold and a will of steel, this preschool teacher, passionate about crafts, grouped her neighbours in 2005, for the most part housewives in a difficult economic situation, within the framework of an association. These women learned sewing, embroidery, and weaving and were able, thanks to the support of the INDH subsequently, to access the financial and technical means necessary for their development. "My goal is to help women in difficult situations to have a stable income, by providing them with the know-how, then letting them fly on their own wings", she specifies. Today, between the association, bloo…