26/06/2026
✨ MY STORY Project – Third Focus Group ✨
📍 Career Center, Cadi Ayyad University – Marrakech
As part of the MY STORY project, Euro-Med EVE Maroc organized the third focus group with young participants from Marrakech and surrounding areas, including students from rural backgrounds.
This session was divided into two parallel discussions focusing on key issues affecting girls and young women in Morocco:
🎓 Education & Employment
Participants discussed the importance of education as a tool for empowerment, while highlighting barriers such as financial difficulties, distance from schools and universities, transport challenges, family pressure, lack of information, and limited access to career guidance.
⚽ Sport & Physical Activity
The second discussion focused on the role of sport in building confidence, health, leadership, teamwork, and social inclusion. Participants also identified challenges such as lack of safe spaces, social judgment, limited family encouragement, transport difficulties, and weak visibility of women and girls in sport.
Through open dialogue and participatory group work, young people shared their experiences, identified community challenges, and proposed practical recommendations, including more awareness sessions, mentorship opportunities, safe and inclusive spaces, better access to sport, and stronger support for young women’s education and professional development.
These discussions will contribute to the MY STORY national research findings and future awareness-raising activities promoting gender equality, youth participation, and storytelling as a tool for change.