Hi my name is Fatima Khouchoua and I am fundraising for Giving Chances.

Friday the 8th of September at night time, a tragic earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Rither scale hit Morocco with its epicentre in the province of Al Haouz.

Giving Chances has been registered as a charity with HM revenue and customs since February 2013 (Reg No XT38079).

The charity has been working in remote, deprived, and impoverished areas supporting schools promoting reading, creating libraries, and providing books, and educational resources. To date Giving Chances has helped over 300 schools and 1000's of children around Morocco. This earthquake affected some of the villages and schools that we have helped in the past. The children's education will suffer, and we do not want that to happen.

The donation will be used to buy a hut and some resources for one particular school in the Al Haous region that we have been supporting for a few years now. I visited this school very recently and has been very much affected by the earthquake and is unhabitable and unsafe, we have spoken to the community and school leader regarding what is needed. Once I have received the funds I will be travelling to Morocco and working with the school headteacher to facilitate a hut and some resources, such as pens, books, and equipment for the school, we will buy these in Morocco when I am there, and as I stated this will go to the school in Al Haous, Marrakech.