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Ouafaa Mhadi did not expect that her journey abroad in the late 1990s would evolve into a path marked by transformation, blending academic training, entrepreneurship, social work, and cultural diplomacy.
A native of Casablanca, she left Morocco in 1997, two years after finishing high school. Before emigrating, she worked at the Moulay Rachid municipality in the country’s economic capital.
Her first destination was the Netherlands, where she took her initial steps abroad. She later moved to France, where her mother lived,…