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Program

Literacy and Awareness Program in Mosques

Implementer Ministry of Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs

Country

Morocco

Program Type

Community Engagement

Category

Detecting and Intervening Against Violent Extremism

This program supports literacy in Arabic and basic religious knowledge in 95% of the national mosques (including in rural areas and prisons).

The aim is to prevent extremist ideologies within families.

87% of 1.8 million beneficiaries (from 2000 to 2014) are women.
In 2015, 89% of the 251,559 beneficiaries of the first level of the Literacy program were women; likewise, 98% of the 41,375 beneficiaries of the second level of this program were also women.