By Zayn Abaakil | President
In the past few weeks, the Dounia Project team has been developing programs, activities and curricula for three different age groups:
First, in collaboration with our partners Bento Moo (healthy lunch providers), Rabat’M Montessori (early childhood Montessori school) and Jardiniers en Herbe (local gardening and permaculture organization) we developed a year-long sustainable gardening program within the school for children and activities in farms and gardens for their families.
Second, the Dounia Project virtual exchange team is currently discussing with the New York-based organization Global Kids and the Morocco-based organization Makerspace Kids to develop a virtual exchange program around specific social and global themes for middle school students in New York and Rabat using collaboratively relevant STEAM tools to address the identified global issues. We are still exchanging potential ideas and talking to the youth participants to identify issues that interest them the most and would most likely focus on throughout the project.
Finally, in the context of the “me too” global movement and after the tragic events regarding a young teenage girl sequestered, tortured and sexually violated in a small town in Morocco, a collective of young women and men created the movement “Masaktach” ( I won't be silent) to raise awareness and voices on sexual harassment and violence against women. In collaboration with the Masaktach collective, the Dounia Project education team is developing a curriculum exploring themes of toxic masculinity and gender roles within the Moroccan society. This curriculum will serve as a training for trainers for local and grassroots organizations and other collectives to engage young people in different neighborhoods around the country to start the conversation on women’s rights, interactions between genders, and socially constructed attitudes and believes.
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