Families in Morocco that have suffered a loss of the father or their primary breadwinner and are too poor to care for their own children often choose to send them to an orphanage for basic care.  Yet resources at these orphanages are also meager and overstretched, meaning that many children may not receive the care and attention they need.  Even those who are able to stay at home usually cannot go to school.  So today, because of this poverty, separation from their families and a lack of access to basic education a large number of children in Morocco are at risk of becoming delinquent and a greater burden on society.

To address this need the Association intends to provide the remaining family members and relatives with sufficient funds to help these children return to and stay in their own family environment.  This support will provide these children with basic human needs such as decent living conditions, good food, clothing, medicine and most of all an education. Plus, the program provides for sustained monitoring of the children’s well-being with a view to sheltering them and preparing them to be productive and tolerant future members of Moroccan society.


Main goal:

To contribute to the integration of children at-risk of abandonment and delinquency into the social, educational and economic environment by ensuring that they remain at home and that they have a healthy and stable family environment.

      
Specific objectives:

• Enabling the integration of at-risk children into the social, educational and economic environment
• Ensuring a healthy and stable family environment for children
• Preventing children from displacement and delinquency
• Providing a basic education to children and monitoring their progress
• Preservation of family unity and stability
• Meeting the physical, psychological, social and educational needs of orphans

Expected results of the program:

• To ensure the education of 3,000 at-risk children
• To prevent these children from delinquency and displacement, and to reintegrate them into society.
• To create stability and cohesion for poor, disadvantaged families.

Period of the program:

This is an on-going project.

Beneficiaries:

3,000 at-risk children from their first year up to the age of 18 who have suffered from either of the following losses:

• The death of both of their parents
• The death of their father, if their mother is unemployed.

      

Program Oversight:

• The program retains one dedicated monitor for every 100 at-risk children
• These monitors follow the children’s progress throughout their adolescence and intervene to correct the situation when children do poorly in school or fail to integrate sufficiently into society
• The program is supervised and regulated by the Department of Social Services and Health.