Morocco launches third edition of “Moroccan handicraft treasures” to preserve endangered crafts

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Morocco launches third edition of “Moroccan handicraft treasures” to preserve endangered crafts  Through this initiative, Morocco continues to assert its commitment to protecting its rich cultural heritage while empowering youth to carry ancestral craftsmanship into the future.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/11/14/morocco-launches-third-edition-of-moroccan-handicraft-treasures-to-preserve-endangered-cra  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Morocco has launched a third edition of its Moroccan Andercraft Treasures Programme,

00:04a national initiative aimed at safeguarding traditional crafts, threatened with extension.

00:10The ceremony took place Tuesday in Rabat under the high patronage of King Mohamed VI

00:15and was organized by the Secretariat of State in charge of traditional andercraft and the social and solidarity economy.

00:24We are very proud of this partnership with UNESCO.

00:26Thank God we have been able to safeguard more than 32 crafts recognized as being at risk of disappearing.

00:34There were only four master artisans who still practiced them.

00:39Through this training program, we will prepare more than 350 new instructors in all these crafts.

00:47Director of the UNESCO office in the Maghreb Arab region emphasized the importance of preserving manual techniques.

00:56Participants were shown, for example, that a saddle cannot function without leather.

01:04Leather is worked entirely by hand.

01:07We thank the ministry for this enormous effort, which relies on techniques that are at risk of disappearing.

01:13Through this initiative, Morocco continues to assert its commitment to protecting its rich cultural heritage

01:22while empowering youth to carry ancestral craftsmanship into the future.

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