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Between Spain and Morocco, I built my independence
A portrait of Fatima Laanieg in her grocery store in Morocco. Food lines the shelves around her. (2025)

ILO Voices | Women's entrepreneurship

Between Spain and Morocco, I built my independence

After years of working in seasonal agriculture in Spain, Fatima Laanieg took part in the ILO’s WAFIRA project, learning how to manage a business. Now, she runs her own grocery store in Morocco while continuing to work abroad for part of the year.

WAFIRA: Women as financially independent rural actors

Project on Moroccan women migrant seasonal workers

WAFIRA: Women as financially independent rural actors

This 3-year joint project with the Spanish Secretary of State for Migration is executed in the framework of the Mobility Partnership Facility mechanism, managed by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and financed by the...