Promotion of a Women's Cooperative for the production of olive oil in Ras Laksar

Marruecos

Justification

The main problems that this project wants to solve are:

Lack of basic training and literacy for women in the Ras Laksar community, whose illiteracy rate is very high and reaches 80.8%. Addressing the problem of education is a necessary prerequisite to try to empower women in the area and provide them with basic cultural resources that make them subsequently autonomous and conscious agents for the socio-economic development of their families and their community.
The absence of productive economic companies in Ras El Ksar that aim to improve the position and power of women through cooperation, self-employment and increased sustainable family income.

Rural community of Ras Laksar, located 120 km south east of the city of Taza

Cáritas Rabat

General Objective: Increase the basic education, cultural capacity and economic autonomy of Ras Laksar women

(120 women).

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Basic literacy courses.
Evaluation and support of women beneficiaries of literacy.
Training courses for the creation of a cooperative producing olive oil.
Creation of the women’s cooperative
Meetings Joint Committee on Cooperative Management
Assignment of land for the construction of the olive oil extraction and production center
Execution of the architectural project for the construction of the olive oil extraction and production center.
Building construction
Monitoring of work and visits to olive oil production facilities
Making the necessary water and electricity connections for the building
Equipment of the olive oil extraction and production center.
Training for the beneficiaries in the handling and use of the new machinery.
Crushing olives: start of work in the cooperative.