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Telephony Government to create 5,000 small companies By Bachir Niah | Morocco TIMES 9/24/2006 | 3:10 pm http://www.moroccotimes.com/Paper/images/240906_B_publiphony.jpg http://www.moroccotimes.com/Paper/images/240906_B_publiphones.jpg The Minister of Social Development, Family and Solidarity, Aberrahim Harouchi, launched on Saturday in Casablanca the “LiajliCom” (for you) programme which provides for creation of 5,000 small companies of portable publiphones on behalf of people living in precarious situation. This programme targets mainly the poorest 403 rural communes and 264 urban districts throughout the kingdom. Ph: Archives. Resulting from a partnership agreement between the Ministry of Social Development, Telefonica Foundation, Ilaicom company and the General Confederation of Moroccan Companies (CGEM), this programme targets mainly the poorest 403 rural communes and 264 urban districts throughout the kingdom, as identified in the framework of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH). The project aims to provide portable publiphones to be carried on foot or by physicals for the use of the general public. According to its promoters, the project, intended to fight exclusion and precariousness, represents a real social integration opportunity for thousands of poor, unemployed, and handicapped people, offering them low-cost and income-generating equipment. Harouchi underlined that this project is part of the Employment Initiative launched recently by the government and which aims at the creation of 200,000 jobs by 2008. The minister added that thanks to the GSM technology, these publiphones will enable the inhabitants of thousands to use public phones, thus sparing the time and effort they waste while looking for a means of communication. The creation of these micro-enterprises constitutes a true encouragement for the personal initiative, which is inline with the philosophy of the INDH, stressed the minister, concluding that from now on the beneficiaries will be able to become actors of their own development through the creation of income-generating activities.