Aicha Ech-Chenna made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic

Founding President of the Association "Solidarity Women" Aicha Ech-Chenna was appointed to this prestigious French order recognising her 51 years of services for unmarried mothers in Morocco.

Ech-Chenna is part of the Easter 2013 awards of the Legion of Honour, as well as Charles Fries, Ambassador of France in Morocco (Knight) of the Nobel Prize in Medicine François Barré-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of HIV (Grand Officer), the former footballer Lillian Thuram, and other French and foreign personalities.

A figurehead of the civil society in Morocco, Aicha Ech-Chenna began her social action by joining the volunteer health education within the League for the Protection of Children and the League for the Fight against tuberculosis.

She also worked for Planned Parenthood and joined the National Union of Moroccan Women in Casablanca, before creating the association "Solidarity Women" whose mission is to help single mothers to take charge of their own effort.

Aicha Ech-Chenna was rewarded for this action in November 2009 in Minneapolis (USA) with the Opus Prize, a sort of humanitarian Nobel prize with a million dollars.

In Paris in 1995, she was awarded the Human Rights of the French Republic.

Aicha Ech-Channa was born in 1941 in the Medina of Casablanca. She spent her childhood in Marrakech before moving to Casablanca in 1953 where she pursued her studies at the Ecole Foch French School and the Joffre School before joining in 1960 the State School of Nursing where she earned a diploma.