Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director General of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), met with Sheikha Nawal Al-Hamoud Al-Malik Al-Sabah, Honorary President of Deerat Al Khair for Voluntary Work, and her accompanying delegation, and together they explored cooperation relations in the field of voluntary work.

          During this meeting, which took place yesterday, at ICESCO headquarters in Rabat, in the presence of a number of officials of the Organization, the two parties discussed the importance of supporting and empowering youth and women, two groups at the center of  the priorities of ICESCO’s new strategic vision, through the implementation of programmes and activities aiming at rehabilitating, training, honing the skills and building the professional, financial and economic capacities of these groups.

          As part of ICESCO’s openness to cooperation with civil society organizations, the two parties also explored cooperation in creating specific programmes to empower women at the social, knowledge and economic levels.

            For her part, Sheikha Nawal expressed her keenness to establish a fruitful partnership between ICESCO and Deerat Al-Khair Group in the fields of the Organization’s work, including culture, and suggested organizing a forum that gathers prominent intellectual figures in the Islamic world to discuss cultural issues.