Moroccan Minister of Labor Abdallah Ibrahim has made a comprehensive visit to the ORT trade school network in Casablanca. He was accompanied by Cabinet officials and representatives of the International Labor Office, a United Nations agency.
The Minister inspected the workshops of the Ain-Sebaa ORT school for boys which teaches such key trades as electricity installation, plumbing, mechanics, carpentry, radio-construction and repair, automobile mechanics and welding. The school has 6 00 student-boarders and is the most outstanding vocational school in the city.
The visitors then proceeded downtown to examine the accelerated short-term courses for adults where considerable success has been achieved in transforming men without skills into technicians and specialized workers. The culmination point of the tour was at the ORT school for deaf-mute children. The Minister and his entourage were visibly beloved by the spectacle of young children being taught to speak and to hear with the aid of electronic equipment. They are also taught trades.
Jules Senouf, president of CRT Morocco. who accompanied the party, outlined the activities of the five ORT schools in Morocco. Minister Ibrahim said there was no doubt that this “great work is done with a tremendous consciousness of responsibility. My presence here reflects the interest of His Majesty King Mohamed V in the work of ORT.”
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