Maghreb Arabe Presse (Rabat)
Salé — HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Saturday in Salé, the regional handicraft training center and laid the foundation stone of the adult geriatric psychiatry center at the Ar-Razi hospital.
These projects carried out by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity for a total cost of 18.5 million dirhams aim to promote handicrafts sector, preserve some declining trades, care for elderly patients with psychiatric troubles and strengthen hospital services in the city.
The regional handicraft training center is part of a comprehensive program implemented by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and includes the construction of four reference centers to provide young people with professional qualifications tailored to the socioeconomic reality of the handicraft sector, mainly through the method of apprenticeship.
Like the one already carried out in Fez, the center of Salé offers continuing education programs for craftsmen in the fields of management, business processes, standards and adaptation to target markets and safety and risk.
It will also provide the youth of the region with an appropriate professional qualification for better integration into the job market, in addition to supporting the project holders throughout the process of starting a business.
The new 13 million dirham center has notably workshops for pottery, traditional zellige, tapestry, carpets, traditional sewing, wrought iron work and wickerwork, areas for the promotion of products and innovation, for employment and microcredit area, and for help of the integration and business creation.
The building of the adult geriatric psychiatry center falls, in turn, under the action program conducted by the Foundation to support the health sector, particularly through projects that have social complementary approach.
The center aims to diversify the range of psychiatric care by offering alternative approaches to hospitalization for the elderly in particular. It will provide, through a space other than the psychiatric institution, a day program for care, monitoring and specific and suitable communication for the elderly with psychiatric disorders.
Such an achievement will also have a platform of academic and practical training in the field of geriatric psychiatry and alternative programs to hospitalization.
The 5.5 million dirham center will have several rooms for cognitive activity, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, music therapy, care, warmth and rest, as well as living area and fun activities.
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