Located in the heart of the magnificent Middle Atlas mountains, the town of Immouzer Marmoucha (Fes-Boulemane region) has just been equipped with a new primary school. This is the latest achievement of the BMCE Foundation for Education and Environment as part of its Medersat.com pedagogical and educational programme. The result of a partnership with the Ministry of National Education, this school establishment illustrates the BMCE Foundation's commitment to the development of preschool and primary education, research, and pedagogical innovations, as well as the strengthening of local capacities for children in rural regions. The inauguration of this new Medersat.com unit, which took place on 2 June in a festive atmosphere, was attended by several personalities, including Mohand Laensar, Minister of the Interior; Mohamed El Ouafa, Minister of National Education; Lahcen Daoudi, Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Executive Training; Othman Benjelloun, President of BMCE Bank; Leila Meziane Benjelloun, President of the BMCE Bank Foundation; Ahmed Boukous, Rector of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM); as well as the managing directors of BMCE Bank and other local authorities and senior officials of the Fes-Boulemane region. During her speech on this occasion, Leila Meziane Benjelloun, President of the BMCE Bank Foundation, did not fail to underline the importance of this initiative in supporting the regionalisation process within the framework of the reforms implemented in Morocco. "We can be proud today of having managed to forge together a successful model of primary school. Our contribution to the improvement of the Moroccan educational system in the rural regions of the Kingdom constitutes one of the links of local development, which involves community populations in a spirit of solidarity. We are convinced that our contribution to the schooling of children of local populations will be strongly valued by the educational development and the improvement of the living conditions of future generations," she affirmed.

The students of Medersat.com in Immouzer Marmoucha should thus benefit from a pedagogical model based on a first-rate linguistic policy as well as an effective use of new technologies. "We try, within the framework of our programme, to provide students with quality learning based on the mother tongue (Arabic or Amazigh), in addition to the French language, which we want to be a means of opening up to the world. We also have the concern of strengthening sciences and new technologies within the schools of our network, by equipping them with various technological tools (televisions, computers, internet, etc.)," specifies Jamal Khallaf, director of the Medersat.com programme. Furthermore, the Medersat.com programme focuses on preschool education to guarantee students quality linguistic development and thus ensure their physical and psychological fulfilment. Mohamed El Ouafa, Minister of National Education, praised the interest of Medersat.com schools in preschool, indicating that it constitutes one of the unavoidable conditions for school success. "Scientific studies have demonstrated the existence of a difference in level between children who have benefited from preschool and those who have not. Learning the alphabet and numbers remains, therefore, essential before integration into the primary cycle," he explained.

It should be noted that the Medersat.com network currently has 202 school complexes which are distributed as follows: 63 "Medersat.com" schools, 136 preschool units, and 3 schools in sub-Saharan Africa: Senegal, Congo, and soon in Gabon.