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News 09 Jun 2012 4 min read

Opening of "Dar El Janoub" by the Moroccan Foundation for Sahrawi Heritage

On 18 May 2012, the Moroccan Foundation for Sahrawi Heritage, in partnership with the cooperatives of the south and the Southern Agency, proceeded to the opening of the "House of the South", a kind of permanent exhibition in Rabat of local products and handicrafts from the Sahrawi regions. Launched on the day of the International Heritage Day, "Dar El Janoub" is a space for displaying, promoting, ordering, and marketing diversified products from cooperatives in different regions of the eastern and southern Sahara, through exhibitions and fairs at the national and international level.
Opening of "Dar El Janoub" by the Moroccan Foundation for Sahrawi Heritage
Contacted on the occasion, Ms Essallami El Aazza spoke of "Dar El Janoub", an exhibition point for women from Sahara cooperatives, where they can display and sell their local products. But also, to make known the efforts made by women artisans in terms of dexterity, creativity, and innovation, to recognise the work of cooperatives, and to value and appreciate the values of natural products and handicrafts. "Instead of going to these remote regions to buy their products, we brought them closer to the customers. For Ms El Aazza, this house is a finality with a social, apolitical objective, on the part of a group of people jealous of their heritage. And out of love for the homeland, it was necessary to bring the eastern Sahara and the southern Sahara closer to the capital, and thus allow for cultural mixing. These are regions that are certainly remote, sometimes different, but which all ha…

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