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Fanna Aamoumi
Fanna Aamoumi is 56 years old. She was born and raised in the village of Asseghmou in the High Atlas Mountains, and is now married with seven children.
Fanna did not have a chance to attend school growing up, and didn’t learn to read and write until she took an NEF-sponsored literacy class at age 45. It changed her life.
She has since risen to a plethora of leadership positions with her community, and become deeply involved in promoting female education through her local parent-teacher organization. She is president of her village’s development association and runs a 69-woman cheese-making cooperative, in addition to providing human resources support for NEF’s activities in her area.
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