In line with World Children's Day, which the world celebrates on 20 November each year, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has identified a bitter reality for Moroccan children and a great disparity between their living conditions in the rural and urban worlds.
On Monday morning, the UNICEF branch in Morocco issued a report with shocking data on the situation of Moroccan children since birth, with 55 per cent of births in the rural world still far from proper conditions and outside the medical centers, In the villages of Morocco, 24 per cent of all new births are recorded.
In its report, the organization monitored the health problems of Moroccan children, with 14 per cent suffering from malnutrition retardation, most of them in the world, 2.3 per cent with morbidity and 12 per cent with obesity. Organization for poor food quality, which does not fit the needs of children.
The organization reported shocking data on the disparity in access to education in Morocco. At a time when the percentage of schooling among children between 15 and 17 years in the urban sector is 86.3%, the percentage of teachers in Moroccan villages is 40.6% And 685,000 youth aged between 15 and 24, according to the same report, do not study, do not work and do not engage in any activity, and do not follow any composition.
In spite of all the efforts made to facilitate administrative procedures, poverty remains an obstacle to enabling children to prove their descent. Six per cent of Moroccans are not registered in the civil registry, most of them in the rural world, where nearly 20 per cent Those who did not register their children in the villages are due to the high cost of the operation.