📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The center host several deph children but is also a school for children that don't have this problem, so the volunteers will appreciate their everyday life habits and culture through practical and social involvement. They will get in touch with national volunteers and social workers in the center so that they can get involved in the community, not only inside the center but also outside, when they finish their work.
Casablanca, in Arabic Dar El Baida, is the biggest city in Morocco and actually in Magheb region. Is the economic and business center in Morocco. Casablanca is one of the most important ones in Africa, demographically and economically, being one of the largest financial centers in the continent.
Its port is one of the largest artificial ports in the world and the primary naval base of the Moroccan Navy.
Completed in 1993 after many years in construction, the Hassan II Mosque is among Africa's largest, with one of the world's tallest minarets to boot. Thanks to its location on the waterfront, and the laser atop the minaret that beams toward Mecca, it’s one of Morocco's most striking buildings. It’s also one of the only mosques that permits non-Muslim visitors into its halls.
Casablanca’s central market is small and manageable. White-walled stalls with green clay tile roofs dotted with foliage make for all the Instagrammable backgrounds you’ll ever need. Vendors sell produce, nuts and dates and, in one stand, argan oil, the traditional Moroccan elixir for most everything. Linger long enough and eventually you will see the vendors line up for the call to prayer, and then join them in a quick tagine lunch, served at outdoor tables.
The Aïn-Diab coast, the seaside annex of the city, is the traditional spot for inhabitants of Casablanca going out for the evening, especially at weekends. Trendy restaurants and popular pubs abound along the seafront. Some of these establishments, with or without seawater swimming pools, are there since the thirties, like an unusual restaurant built on piles. The atmosphere is so cosmopolitan that it is as easy to find a sushi restaurant as one specialised in Moroccan dishes. The discotheques open later on in the evening. Everyone will find one to his taste, from the latest techno to North African music. Boulevard Mohammed V, in the city centre, is full of restaurants, some of which have kept their 1920's decoration. Another curiosity: you can have a drink in a perfectly recreated copy of the famous café in the film Casablanca.
Further information about the country will be attached in the National Profile form.
💼 What the programme involves
The center has around 76 deph children, from 4 to 20 years old. It's a schools where they study from 9 am to 15 pm, sharing the space with the public school, children with no special needs: there are two buildings and the Government gives one of them for the deph children, although in the break they play all together. The space given for the project has 7 classrooms with a maximum of 16 students each one.
The children have lunch in the school, they bring their own food and have a break to it at around 1pm. They have holidays during July and Augost.
The center organizes leisure activities, accompanying them in their daily activities, support the teachers in basic life skills such as languages, artistic activities, sports: basketball, football, karate... In the project, they carry out workshops: - painting – Kitchen – literacy – Music – excursions out of the school etc.
Developing in children the appreciation of the skills-based approach.
VOLUNTEER’S TASKS
Caring, Organizing leisure activities for deph children: Helping the teachers and social workers out with the workshops and sports. Scholar support, simple tasks, learning with games and songs... accompanying them in their daily tasks . They can participate in all the project activities described above. Also artistic activities, painting, drawing...
The center organizes also activities out of it in which the volunteers can also participate such as excursions or sports.
As to participante in the different activities, the volunteers would rotate with different groups and ages, although the tasks would remain the same.
The normal timetable is from 9am to 15pm.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will live in a host family .
📍 About the location
HOW TO ARRIVE
A big number of airports have international flights to Casablanca. If you happen to fly to any other city, you will have trains very often, and you can check them online in ONCF website:
http://www.oncf.ma/Pages/Accueil.aspx
You can also get a bus very easily, transports to Casablanca run very often because is the bigges city in Morocco, but not all bus companies have website. The most popular and efficient is CTM:
http://www.ctm.ma/
⚠️ Requirements
The volunteers are not required to have any previous experience, although someone expressive and good at plastic arts and sports is preferred. The center is looking for enthusiastic, positive, patient and respectful people, who are willing to support those children at a pace they feel comfortable with.
The volunteer must provide a copy of his/her record criminal.
ℹ️ Additional information
The objective of this project is to give some scholar support and participatein the sports and artistic activites the center organizes for deph children.