AFRICA/MOROCCO - Important achievements for two Catholic schools celebrating 70th and 75th anniversaries

Monday, 23 July 2007

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Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - Two Catholic schools in Morocco are celebrating important 70th and 75th anniversaries this year.
La Saadia Catholic School in Marrakech was opened 75 years ago in 1932 by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles. In September 1988 the school was taken over be a community of Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. As the years passed the school was enlarged and improved in structures and courses. Additions included a theatre, a gym and science and technology laboratories. Presiding the recent school Jubilee celebrations Archbishop Vincent Landel, the Catholic Archbishop of Rabat, emphasised the importance of civil education to form good citizens and, underlining the need to teach the values of respect for justice and the truth, urged parents to be good examples for their children.
The other Catholic school in Morocco marking its anniversary this year is Carmel Saint Joseph School in Casablanca opened in 1937 by a community of Carmelite Sisters as a private primary and secondary boarding school for girls. In 1979 the school was taken over by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and opened to boys as well as girls. Today it has 750 boys and girls most of them Moroccan.
Both schools belong to an association of 14 Catholic schools in Morocco called ECAM whose head is the Archbishop of Rabat. The other ECAM schools are Notre Dame Catholic Schools at Meknes; Institution Sainte Famille, Joyeuse Union, Kénitra - Centre de Formation féminine, Joyeuse Union, Kénitra - Section Professionnelle Électricité, Don Bosco School, Institution Jeanne d’Arc, Ecole Notre Dame de la Paix, Institut Saint Gabriel in Rabat; Ecole Jacques Hersent, Ecole Al Aouch Al Aîli in Mohammedia; (Ecole Notre Dame de Aîn Sebaa, Ecole Carmel Saint Joseph, Institut Saint Dominique, Ecole Charles de Foucauld, Ecole Maison d’Anfa), Casablanca; La Saadia School in Marrakec
According to the Catholic Church's Book of Statistics 2005, in Morocco the Church runs 19 kindergartens with 3,511 pupils; 27 primary schools with 8,224; 37 secondary schools and high schools with 3,374 pupils. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 23/7/2007 ; righe 29 parole 389)