The Regional Launching of the Funds for the Promotion of Employment (FREPE- Le lancement du Fonds Régional pour la Promotion de l'Emploi) has recently held a meeting with the objective of fighting poverty through generating projects in local communities. <i>E-marrakech</i> reports that the FREPE works within the framework of a partnership signed in May 2004 by the Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz Council, the Ministry for the Social Development and the Agency of the Social Development (ADS). During the meeting, Mounir Charibi, the wali (governor) of the Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz has noted that this initiative is taken within the scope of a national development program, which is launched by the King Mohammed VI. "This initiative is first of its kind in Morocco and it represents the spirit of solidarity in the Moroccan society," said Charibi.
