Three Cultures presents the diplomas to the students of the "Learning as a Family Seville" project

The Three Cultures Foundation presented the end-of-course diplomas to the students participating in this edition of the "Learning as a Family" project who have completed the course in Seville and its province. 

In addition to the director of the Three Cultures Foundation, Lorena García de Izarra, the ceremony was attended by Yolanda López Cosano, territorial delegate of the La Caixa Foundation, and Loubaba Edfouf, vice-consul for Social and Cultural Affairs of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Morocco in Seville.

They were in charge of handing out the diplomas to more than sixty students, including minors and mothers, who have passed the course given in the different centres in Seville and its province, which consisted of a total of 600 teaching hours in the afternoon from 16 October 2023 to 20 June 2024.

Specifically, participants from the El Esqueleto Civic Centre in Polígono Sur, the Sevilla Acoge Youth Centre in Macarena and the Youth Centre in the town of Olivares visited the Foundation. 

Also present were the director of the Fundación Sevilla Acoge, a collaborating entity, and the director of the Educational Action area of the Three Cultures Foundation, Antonio Chaves, who was in charge of conducting the event, which included the participation of the children who had prepared speeches of thanks and songs together with their teacher Hasanía.

The "Learning as a Family" programme, which is completely free for students, began in 2010 and has become one of the Three Cultures Foundation's flagship projects over the last 14 years thanks to the good reception from the Moroccan community.

It is a joint methodological approach in which groups of parents and children share timetables and spaces, thus allowing for family reconciliation and the attendance of families to the classes. It consists of a linguistic programme that promotes the learning, on the one hand, of Spanish for Moroccans living in Andalusia and, at the same time, the learning of classical Arabic for their children, either born in Andalusia or living there from a very young age, so that they do not lose the link with their parents' country of origin.

Its main objective is to provide the children with the necessary knowledge of the classical Arabic language so that they maintain the culture and language of their country of origin: Morocco and, in turn, a better integration of the parents in the host society.