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| image = Logo for the Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant.jpeg | alt = The word "Amal" written in green in Arabic and orange in English with a picture of an orange tagine at the left-hand side | caption = Logo of Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant | motto = | formation = | founder = Nora Belahcen Fitzgerald | type = NGO | status = Non-profit association | purpose = Humanitarian | location = Marrakesh, Morocco | coords = | languages = Arabic, English, French | leader_title = Director | leader_name = Moulay Hassan Aladlouni | affiliations = | staff = 15 | staff_year = 2015 | volunteers = 15–18 | volunteers_year = 2015 | website = }} Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant ((アラビア語:جمعية الامل لفنون الطبخ); ) is a non-profit organization in Marrakesh, Morocco, that helps disadvantaged women gain work experience by training them in the preparation of Moroccan food and international food. The center was established in 2012 by Nora Belahcen Fitzgerald. Each year 30–40 women complete four to six months of training, which often leads to them finding employment in a relevant field. == History == Nora Belahcen Fitzgerald first conceived of the idea of creating an organization to help Morocco's underprivileged women through career training in 2006 after meeting a single mother begging on the street who lived on 2030 dirhams per day (about €2.70, $3.40 in 2006). Belahcen Fitzgerald was inspired by the ''Association Solidarité Féminine'', which helps single mothers overcome poverty and social stigma by providing them with shelter, counselling, and vocational training. She decided to begin helping women by teaching them to make baked goods in her family's language center. This proved to be successful, and the participants were able to make more money using their new skills than by begging. In 2008, Belahcen Fitzgerald began hiring underprivileged Moroccan women to cook for events she organized for her friends. In 2012 Belahcen Fitzgerald found a property to rent and registered Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant as a non-profit organization.〔 In early 2013 the center raised more than $7300 through crowdfunding on RocketHub, exceeding its $5000 goal. The money was used to purchase kitchen equipment and to ensure the kitchen was up to code.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rockethub.com/projects/12451-amal-women-s-training-center-and-moroccan-restaurant#description-tab )〕 The restaurant opened in April 2013, and in July 2013, the center was awarded a three-year grant by the Drosos Foundation with the goal of making the program self-sustaining by 2016. The first group of trainees began training in February 2014.〔 Within the first month of operation, several of the restaurant's customers had expressed interest in hiring future Amal graduates to work at local hotels and restaurants.〔 The center completed a second round of crowdfunding on RocketHub in 2014, raising more than $9600.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rockethub.com/projects/35895-expansion-efforts-for-moroccan-women-s-center-working-to-employ-empower#description-tab )〕 In October 2015 the center was awarded €25,000 by the Orange Foundation. Belahcen Fitzgerald stated that the prize money would be used to help women start their own catering micro businesses.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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