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by Chloé Koura
Rabat – The Moroccan consulate in Belgium has held a prize ceremony for students in the Moroccan community who have shown academic talent throughout the year.
Out of 500 competing students and the 168 who were successful in the competition, 60 were awarded prizes of excellence on Sunday evening. The competition was organised by the Moroccan embassy’s national education co-ordination service.
The students take classes in Arabic, Islamic education (especially in relation to civic rights, tolerance and coexistence), Moroccan history and geography.
In a speech during the ceremony, the Moroccan ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg Mohamed Ameur congratulated the students and their parents, and encouraged them to continue to learn about their motherland in order to preserve their identity. Also in attendance was the Consul General, a representative of the Hassan II Foundation of MRE, and certain officials of Moroccan origin.
Almost 6,000 students across Belgium benefit from the Hassan II Foundation’s educational programme, a programme that was originally started to help Moroccans living abroad.
As of 2006, Belgium had 249,583 Belgian Moroccans, and a survey by the King Baudouin Foundation showed that 55% of them consider themselves to be more Moroccan than Belgian.
