Ivanka Trump meets with female landowners
Changes to Morocco laws allow women to own land
SIDI KACEM, Morocco — Visiting Morocco for the first time, Ivanka Trump received a warm welcome Thursday from women who are benefiting from new laws that allow them to own land.
One woman expressed her gratitude by embracing President Donald Trump’s daughter and kissing her hands.
Ivanka Trump is a senior White House adviser who works on women’s issues and has sought to encourage developing countries to help women build wealth and financial independence by owning land or other property.
Morocco is one such nation. Working in partnership with U.S. aid agency Millennium Challenge
Corp., Morocco has updated its land titling laws and earned the three-day visit from the U.S. president’s daughter.
At an olive grove in a region north of the capital of Rabat, she met four women who had inherited or bought land — something they previously could not do.
She later strutted her way into a ceremony as participants banged drums and blew horns. Inside, women ululated to show their approval.
“When you invest in women, they invest back into their families and communities, and countries flourish,” she said.
The festive atmosphere likely offered a fleeting diversion from daily developments back home in Washington, where House impeachment investigators continue to take depositions in the case against her father for asking Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.