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Rabat – The Wafira – the Arabic word for abundance – project will bring 250 Moroccan women to provide labor picking berries in Huelva. It will also train those seasonal workers and give them technical and financial assistance when they return to Morocco.
The Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration in a press release on Monday, 28 March announced the Wafira project in Huelva, Spain.
This project is the result of cooperation between the State Secretary for Migration, the Moroccan Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skill, the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC), the International Labor Organization, the Agri-food Cooperatives of Andalusia, the ICMPD, and the European Commission.
The European Union financed this project through the Migration Partnership Facility, which supports and implements EU migration policies.
Spanish Secretary of State for Migration Jesus Perea stated on Monday in a press release that this project will bring benefits to both Moroccan women and the governmental institutions involved.
The Wafira project, in its initial phase, has employed 50 Moroccan women who arrived in Huelva at the end of 2021 and will be expected to return to Morocco in June 2022.
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The project is set to have three phases:
The first phase is concerned with preparations, in which 50 Moroccan women were selected and have already started working in Spain; with an additional 200 more seasonal workers arriving at the end of 2022.
The second phase is concerned with mobility. The participants of Wafira will benefit from training programs, to prepare them to establish business plans after the end of the program.
The final phase of the program will focus on the 50 workers who will be returning to Morocco in June, while the other 200 will return to Morocco during the summer of 2023. After returning to Morocco, they will be given technical and financial support, for the next 12 months, provided by Wafira and ANAPEC staff to assist them in starting their own initiatives and start-ups.
The first 50 Moroccan women have already expressed their interest in starting their own start-ups in the agricultural sector.
