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And we had a lot of things to do with the housemothers!

Let’s star with the girls’ selection for next year. We had to choose 10 more girls for Dar Tinmel…It was a real adventure! During one week, we visited the rural villages around Talat N’Yacoub. Some of them were really really far and in the middle of nowhere. I couldn’t imagine that people could live in such areas. Now I can say that Talat N’Yacoub is a real city!

It was interesting to talk with them and see how the schools are managed.

Then some days later the girls that we selected came at Dar Tinmel with their parents, we talked with them, and they passed a little test. It was a real success, we expected around 11 girls but we didn’t know that everybody around Talat N’Yacoub talked about our selection. So much that more than 20 girls came at Dar Tinmel to pass the tests!

In the meantime, we had the girls’ results in Talat N’Yacoub and Dar Asni. Only one girl in Talat N’Yacoub didn’t pass, and unfortunately she won’t come back next year with us. In Asni 3 girls of the last year didn’t pass. On the whole most of the girls passed and almost all the girls improved their marks during this year! And that’s a real success!

To finish this year, Dar Tinmel was happy to welcome its first schools visits!

The International School of Madrid and the school from Marlborough came to visit Dar Tinmel.

When the International School of Madrid came to visit us, the girls were on holidays but they wanted to come back at Talat N’Yacoub to see and welcome their visitors.

It was a beautiful day for everybody; the school, with the girls, painted the walls in the house. And thanks to them, the girls have computers and new tables and shelves for next year!!

The second visit was on July 11^th, a school from Marlborough came to visit the house and learn more about our project. Unfortunately the girls couldn’t be there but the school wanted to do something and leave a memory of their visit to the girls, so they finished what the school of Madrid began and painted the rest of the wall.

We hope that everything will go well next year, with more girls and a new house.

You will have more news in September…