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• Project Start Date: 2010
• Local Partner: Azrou Center for Community Development
(ACCD)
• Direct Beneficiaries in 2014: 40
• Direct Beneficiaries since start of Project: 114
• Infrastructure Projects Completed: School Building
comprising two classrooms, two workshop rooms, sanitation
facilities, canteen, kitchen
The Moroccan Ministry of Education created the Non Formal
education program to target particularly vulnerable groups
of the population and specifically school dropouts and street
children. The Foundation has partnered with Azrou Center
for Community Development to roll out this program in the
region of Azrou where drop out rates are particularly elevated.
The program is devised to cover two years of the main school
subjects in one year, so that children can catch up the schooling
they have missed. The aim is to reinsert them in the public school
system upon completion of the program. The program also
includes extracurricular activities, such as field trips, drama and
arts classes. The children also receive vocational training classes
in woodcarving, tailoring, IT, and hairdressing. Students receive
one meal in school and medical assistance through yearly check
ups that include eyesight and dental screening. Throughout the
year, students are instructed in workshops on dental care and
basic hygiene, and on subjects such as nutrition, environmental
protection, healthy lifestyle habits, children’s rights, and issues
of drug use, aids, and violence.
Scholarships cover the costs of teacher salaries, meals in school,
backpacks, school supplies, cooking staff, trainers, field trips,
sports activities and cultural events, and general running costs
of the program. Some mothers of beneficiaries receive literacy,
numeracy and vocational training classes (sewing, embroidery,
weaving) at the center to help improve their income generating
capabilities.
All mothers of our beneficiaries can have access to health screen-
ings at the Azrou Center and receive family planning counseling
during the year. Social workers regularly visit families to discuss
progress of beneficiaries and encourage parents to cooperate in
sending their children to school.
This year, the Foundation inaugurated the new building for the
Non Formal Education program in the presence of the Moroccan
Minister of Education, Foundation Director Elena Pistorio, Azrou
Center Director Malika Benbella, and volunteer Foundation
Country Manager Mohamed Lasry.
In his speech, the Minister of Education applauded the Centre as
the best rolled out Non Formal Education program in the region,
in virtue of the excellent results and high quality of teaching.
We are very proud of the results and of the success of our students.
Mohammed Larsy, Foundation Country Manager Morocco, and
Rachid Belmokthar, Moroccan Minister of Education at the school
Building Inauguration
AZROU, MOROCCO
Back to School Project
Embroidery class as part of Vocational Training Program