Following the activities of the Marrakech Astronomy Festival, our wish was to pay tribute to the late Carolina Ödman Govender.
Carolina, who has just left us, played an important role in educating and promoting girls in science. She contributed to the creation of the Astronomy for Africa working group and led the program: Universe Awareness (UNAWE), an awareness program aimed at inspiring children to learn astronomy. The accomplishments of the deceased have been impressive and multiple, in the fields of science, medicine, technology, arts and STIM¹, and have transformed the way science is presented to an ever-increasing audience that is more and more diverse.
This is how we wanted to organize this activity to promote an astronomy that is more inclusive while steering the orientation of girls towards STIM¹,Our aim is to prolong her work hoping she continues to watch over us.
We are therefore planning a 2-day visit to the Oukaimeden observatory in favor of 50girls from the Dar Taliba boarding school in Marrakech. The Dar Taliba Marrakech association is dedicated to promoting girls education from rural areas, who tend to be disadvantaged on the basis of their geographical origin alone.
The event is scheduled for Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd, 2023 at Oukaimeden. This activity will be led by the association 3AM Astronomy and the Atlas Dark Sky Foundation.
Our sponsors (CAF/Intrepid) have already agreed the supply of transportation, accommodation and catering for 50 girls and their leaders. Additionally, we want to involve the AfNWA African organization under AfAS and dedicated to women in astronomy. A conference debate around the experience of this organization to promote female astronomy will be programmed. It will be followed by a debate on how to sustain this kind of activity, taking advantage of the possibilities offered to the Astro-clubs, the IAU, AfAS , OAD, OAO, to fund their projects.
The Atlas Dark Sky Foundation offers the opportunity to raise awareness to light pollution among those young girls and thus involve them in tackling it within their respective villages.

We propose the following provisional program:

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