Today’s Good News: A Recipe For Women’s Empowerment in Morocco | Good News Today

Today’s Good News: A Recipe For Women’s Empowerment in Morocco | Good News Today

Why this story matters: This piece offers a constructive counterpoint to the constant stream of negative news. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to local food, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. All over the city of Marrakesh, football fever had taken hold. Africa’s continent-wide soccer competition, AFCON, was being hosted in Morocco. And here, at the Amal Targa Center, a fan zone had been set up for the big clash between Egypt and Benin. Yet the most impressive team performing that night was not a group of sports stars. It was the half dozen young women cooking up an epicurean storm, from mouthwatering burgers to spicy merguez sandwiches and decadent chocolate waffles. This pop-up fast food is far from the only style of cooking that Elhiba has been taught during her time with Amal , a Marrakesh-based nonprofit that sees chef training as the recipe for women’s empowerment in Morocco. During the course, which runs for about nine mont…