A recent Rabat forum spotlighted the ways young entrepreneurs could work with civil society groups to create jobs in Morocco http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2011/05/13/feature-03

Moroccan business leaders and young entrepreneurs gathered in Rabat on Thursday (May 12th) to focus on youth leadership development and expanding communication between enterprises and civil society.The seminar was jointly sponsored by Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Morocco and the US Embassy in Rabat. "We believe that young people are the pillar of the future, and if we don't move now to help them, that will be wrong against them,"

SIFE Morocco Chairman Majid El Ghaib said. "Our aim is to create a power to make proposals and to have strong presence in the first youth debate that will be held at the end of this May." SIFE is an international non-profit that works with students and businesses to develop entrepreneurship skills in young people in order to make them competitive in the global market economy. 

El Ghaib added that the Rabat project "logically started with the initiative of US President Barack Obama. The idea is to have a presence in that dynamism of the entrepreneurial Arab Maghreb." "I believe that SIFE is the most important tool for working for the interest of young people in a scientific and pragmatic way," said US Ambassador to Morocco Samuel Kaplan. "The Unites States hopes that all those who have merit in Morocco will succeed. In other words, we hope that young people will succeed in imposing themselves through their entrepreneurship ideas and capabilities," the ambassador added.

[SOME BACKROUND ON ''SIFE''  [SIFE holds several high-profile partnerships, such as HSBC, PepsiCo, Unilever, DELL, Campbell's, Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG and Procter & Gamble. http://www.sife.org/OurNetwork/partners/Pages/SIFEDonors.aspx    BOARD OF DIRECTORS  http://www.sife.org/aboutsife/Pages/BoardofDirectors.aspx

Adam Rifkin    Managing Director    Barclays Capital/Dave Pollard    Vice President of Sales, Walmart    Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc./Denise James Gatling    Director Global Supplier Diversity & Business Dev.    GlaxoSmithKline plc

--------------------------------- Doug McMillon Vice-Chairman Executive Committee Member President & CEO, Walmart International Walmart Stores, Inc. /Maura Quinn    University Relations Program Manager    Liberty Mutual Insurance Company /Steven Litaker    Vice President, Customer Excellence    Novartis Corporation

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