Moroccan Aïcha Ech Channa receives $1 million PrizeAïcha Ech Channa, founder and president of a Casablanca,Morocco, organization that provides services to unmarriedwomen with children, is the winner of the $1 million 2009Opus Prize.Ech Channa, 68, is something of an icon in Morocco when itcomes to human and civil rights for single mothers and theirchildren. During the 1980s she worked in the Moroccan Ministryof Social Affairs where she was confronted daily by the ordealsof single mothers.She recalled an afternoon in a social worker’s office wherea...
Sunday, 15 November 2009
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