King Mohammed VI launched this Monday in Fez, a four-year program meant to enhance economic activities, safeguard and perpetuate traditional trades and crafts and improve the living environment in the Medina of Fez. The 2020-2024 program, targeting the quality of life of the medina dwellers, requires an investment of $70.2 million (670 million dirhams). The program also provides for the upgrading of social facilities and the refurbishment of shabby and decaying buildings. The Monarch then visited the Foundouq Khrachfiyine, which is being rehabilitated under the complementary development program of the Medina of Fez (2018-2023). The restoration project of Foundouq Khrachfiyine seeks, besides safeguarding and preserving this historical heritage, to promote traditional trades in foundouqs and improve craftsmen’s working conditions.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 02, 2020 19:30 UTC