Make the change.

by Maryem Souhaim (Morocco)

Making a local connection Morocco

In a small village, off 70 km from agadir city in Morocco. There is a girl named sara, who loves to see the world close up, as it is. She is twenty years old, and from her childhood, she loves adventures, and experience new things. Traveling with regard to her, is an essential need. In the age of 14, Her parents start believing in her, so she did not have any problem of traveling with friends or even alone, and that's maked her visit a lot of new places, and meet new people from different ages, in addition to attend many of free training courses, in her field of study, wich organized so far in the other cities. She was always invites her friends to share the same experiences with her, to make them open up to the outside world, and do not depend too much on their parents, but their parents don't accept the idea. People in that village, have a lot of faith in traditions and customs. For them, it is a shame, a girl goes alone to a far place, and they cannot makes confidence in their daughters. This is something they grow up with, and they cannot change it. Sara constantly tries to prove that it is necessary for girls going out, to learn and experience how they can face it out the world. And always bleives that traveling away by 15 kilometer, makes you able to face millions of kilometers more, when you travel around the world. Years go faster, and the village's girls, will moves to the University, Which is in Agadir City, so they will live far from their parents. For that reason, many of them drop out, and some chose to face the disteny and acclimate with it. The new life was not easier for them and for their parents as well, due to, for girls, everything was totally new, and for parents, it was strange than their principles. they suffered before getting the feel of it, unlike Sara. At the end, they make certain that, the girls should learn how they act, before the reality comples them to act suddenly.