KEEP 100 MOROCCAN CHILDREN AWAY FROM ABANDONMENT

The last trimester was focused on the school follow-up of the children and youths towards the end of the academic year and the exams:

• Our program coordinator visited all the schools in order to meet the teachers to establish a common strategy for an appropriate school support. Two teachers have been trained in order to take in charge the school support of the children. The youths in secondary school benefited from school support through the association of previous pupils of Imzouren high school.
• The youths who need to choose this year an orientation participated in an orientation workshop in Imzouren with a team of professionals specialized in school orientation advice. The youths in vocational training have been doing some internships according to the field they study.
• Thanks to our long-time partner Dell, the Caravan AJI, which aims to give access to technology to disadvantaged youths, visited us in Imzouren beginning of June. During 1 week, 12 youths benefited from computer lessons and 10 of them received a certificate from Dell at the end of the session!
• Regarding sports, the association JSI keeps on supporting us with football and basketball activities for the children between 8 and 12 years old. To illustrate the partnership, an agreement was recently signed by both our National Director and the Director of JSI association.

As far as the preparation of the families to become autonomous is concerned, our program coordinator kept on establishing and following-up the Family Development Plans which aim to work towards the objective of autonomy. In that objective, the mothers have been participating, with the local authorities, to the General Meeting in order to create officially the 2 co-ops of soap manufacturing and cooking/baking,

The health of the mothers and their children is for us very important and the families benefited again from various checks-up thanks to the medical caravan organized by Sajid association. On that occasion, a solidarity campaign took place with the help of the children from Herman Gmeiner school and their parents.

Regarding the entertainment program this trimester, the children and their mothers supported by our family strengthening program have been celebrating the Family Day at the SOS Children’s Village in Imzouren together with the SOS families: cultural, artistic and sport activities, and also a tombola!

Once again, we would like to thank all of you for your continuous support to the children!