Jesuit Work in Morocco

Abstract

History. The first Jesuit in Morocco, Father Guilloux, was serving as the director of an advanced school of agriculture in Angers, France, when he was invited in 1946 as a consultant to a group of French agricultural techmClans then exploring possibilities for rural development in Morocco. As an outcome of this interchange an organisation was set up to recruit agricultural engineers in France and prepare them for work in North Africa. As rural conditions became better known to the group, it became clear that a specific system of education for rural children was needed, for they showed little......