A delegation from the Washington Moroccan community has visited the Orlando Moroccan American Chamber of commerce to undertake and coordinate a series of activities between the Moroccan Communities in the Washington National Capital area and the Moroccan communities in South and Central Florida

It has been decided to jointly participate in a variety of activities to start building a strong core of representative associations in various parts of the countries that would lead to an organized and effective Moroccan community in the US.

The effort strives to build an effective, efficient, representative, modern and forward thinking federation of Moroccan American organizations that would be effective in helping in economic and social progress in morocco as well as build a better understanding between our adopted country; America and our country of origin; Morocco.

Some issues tackled are

• Pooling of resources for better outreach to our respective communities to inform them of upcoming actions and provide opportunities for a bigger participation.

• Outreach to other Moroccan American organizations in other parts of the country with a significant MA Communities such as Houston/Dallas, Chicago, New York, Boston and California.
• Work with all concerned to collect statistics to better gouge the size of the communities in various parts of the country

The visiting group included the Moroccan consul in Washington Mr. Hassan Khantach, Hassan Samghouni,  Mostapha Saout and Adil Naji with The Washington Moroccan Club, Allied Media Corp and Arabesques. Also included are Mohamed Hajjam and Mostapha Abdelmoumen with AV Actions, as a TV crew/reporter/producer for Al Maghrebia TV and RTM TV, Mr. salem Ammagui, NY-based director of Royal Air Maroc and finally Mr. Kadour Fattoumi, reporter with Maghreb Arab Press.

The host was the Orlando Moroccan American Chamber of Commerce, a group of talented and active business people. Partial list:  Addul Aitboukil, Hassan Erroudani, Karim bennouna, Nouredine Chehab, Mohamed Tazi as well as Rachid Choufani, a prominent businessman, owner/operator of the Moroccan Pavilion at Epcot center.

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