Credit: EPMC
On Monday 5 May 2025, Luxembourg non-profit organisation SOS Villages d'Enfants Monde (SOSVEM) announced that it had received a donation of €7,525 from Ecole Privée Marie-Consolatrice (EPMC) in Esch-sur-Alzette.
EMPC has supported SOSVEM since 2021 and, as they do every year, the pupils and staff organised a charity Christmas market at their school, with the students making gifts and setting up and running the stalls. The proceeds from the market, held on 30 November 2024, were allocated to two Luxembourg-based charities: Trauerwee Asbl Luxembourg and SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde.
Head of EPMC, Serge Lucas, along with the staff and students, recently welcomed Director of SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde, Sophie Glesener, to the school. During her visit, they handed over a donation of €7,525 to support an ongoing education project in Morocco. This initiative began in response to the September 2023 earthquake in the High Atlas region of the country. SOSVEM joined forces with its sister organisation in Morocco to launch a major construction project, through which they plan to build a co-educational secondary school for up to 500 students and a boarding facility for 50 girls near the SOS Village in Aït Ourir. The project aims to tackle the school dropout rate - worsened by the earthquake - and to improve the quality of education in an area affected by deep poverty. Construction started in November 2024, with builders laying the foundations in early 2025.
During the visit, Sophie Glesener presented details of the project and thanked the school leadership, staff and pupils of EPMC for their show of solidarity, noting that “their efforts are making a real difference for vulnerable students in Morocco - many of them girls who have had to leave school too early”.
