Several conference participants come to this fight to maintain what ground has been won for women, having fought the French during the war for the liberation of Algeria. Morocco's Casablanca is the largest and most modern city of the North African Atlantic coast. Neither is a stranger to computers. And both Moroccan and Algerian women are beginning to form exactly the same kinds of community computer centers as are burgeoning in the United States. F or others the needs are practical.
Young girls come out of school with absolutely no useful skills.
I want them to learn word processing so they can get good jobs. This from a teacher and leader of a program to support women entrepreneurs in Fez. In Tangier, a bustling city of the mixed cultures of Spain and Morocco, the young people need a place to hang out. The women responsible for creating an association of nonprofits that drew up a code for women's rights are also creating a place for children to come use computers. A group working to defend women's rights within the legal system has begun a day care program for the children of the local area.