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News 11 Jun 2013 4 min read

HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa visits the stands in Marrakech

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, visited the WEEC-2013 exhibition on Monday evening at the Palais des Congrès in Marrakech, organised as part of the 7th World Environmental Education Congress (June 9-14).
HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa visits the stands in Marrakech

On this occasion, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa toured the various stands of this exhibition, where she was provided with explanations regarding the actions carried out by the various national and international institutional partners and stakeholders in the fields of environmental protection and the promotion of environmental education.

This exhibition also highlights the activities and actions undertaken by schools through the "Eco-Schools" programme for the promotion of environmental education.

It offers the opportunity to create a concept of ecological stands made from natural, recycled, and recyclable materials (used wood, wooden crates, plastic bottles), which aim to raise awareness about environmental protection issues. As for the choice of materials and their creative implementation, it demonstrates that it is possible to give new life to obsolete objects.

The energy consumption of the stand is reduced thanks to the use of low-consumption light sources. The stands are illuminated by low-energy LEDs with the aim of achieving the "minimum carbon" objective.

These ecological stands will have a second life as educational tools for environmental education, with their installation within the Eco-Schools of the city of Marrakech.

Thus, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa visited the stand of the Ministry of National Education, the stand of the Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, the Cooper Pharma stand, the Oriental Agency stand, the Moroccan Agency for Tourism Development (SMIT) stand, the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) stand, the Amendis Rédal stand, the innovation and learning workshop, and the Ciments du Maroc workshop (scientific recycling workshop with students from the Eco-Schools of the Marrakech Academy).

HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa also visited the "Green Chip" workshop of the Al Jisr Association on the management and recovery of electronic waste, the Cadi Ayyad University workshop on the recovery of sugar industry by-products through composting, the Professional Association of Cement Manufacturers (APC) stand, the Nestlé stand, the Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) stand, the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection stand, the Southern Agency stand, the Belgian Development Agency (CTB) stand, and the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) stand.

Her Royal Highness also visited the Casablanca Pedagogical Farm workshop (creation of seed balls for greening collective spaces in urban areas, demonstration and tasting of herbal and medicinal plant infusions), hosted by Ms. Marion Primat, in charge of educational activities, the Eco-Schools workshop (thematic workshops for demonstration and exhibition of students' work within the framework of the Eco-Schools programme), as well as the Youssef Chetati workshop, in partnership with the Oriental Agency, on the environment and fine arts through artistic recycling.

HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa also visited the "Réflexes" workshop, the Young Reporters for the Environment (JRE) workshop "E-Journal WEEC 2013", whose development and editing will be carried out by 9 JRE high school students from the Marrakech Academy, the Maison du Conte Maroc workshop (narration of environmental tales hosted by 4 storytellers), the Young Reporters for the Environment workshop (aromatic plant distillation workshop hosted by 4 high school students and a supervisor from the Koutoubia high school in Marrakech), the BMCE Foundation stand, the OCP Foundation stand, the Crédit Agricole stand, and the Northern Agency stand.

HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa also visited the Eco-Schools workshop (exhibition of models and logos selected from the Eco-Schools competition), the Métamorph OX workshop (exhibition of metal sculptures of birds and human beings), the Voluntary Carbon Compensation (CVC) stand, the National Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ADEREE) stand, and the Moroccan National Tourism Office (ONMT) stand.

HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa also visited the Spana (Society for the Protection of Animals and Nature) Eco-Bus, an exhibition bus on the wonderful world of animals, as well as the Eco-Bus of the Marrakech City Waste Management Company (Tech-Med).

At the end of this visit, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa posed for a souvenir photo with students participating in the Eco-Schools workshops.

Upon her arrival at the Palais des Congrès, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa was welcomed by Lahoucine Tijani, Delegate President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection.

Subsequently, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa was greeted by the Minister of National Education, Mohamed Louafa, the Wali of the Marrakech-Tensift Al Haouz region, Governor of the Marrakech prefecture, Mohamed Faouzi, Fatima Zohra Mansouri, President of the Marrakech City Council, as well as by Ahmed Benzi, Director of the Regional Academy of Education and Training (AREF) of Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz.

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