📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The center host several disabled children 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.
Rabat is the capital and fourth largest city of Morocco with an urban population of approximately 580,000. Rabat features a Mediterranean with Oceanic influence. Located along the Atlantic Ocean, Rabat has a mild, temperate climate, shifting from cool in winter to warm days in the summer months
The biggest place for theatre is the Theatre Mohammed V in the centre of the town. The city has a few official galleries and an archeological museum.
Many organizations are active in cultural and social issues.
Further information about the country will be attached in the National Profile form.
💼 What the programme involves
Their principles work for social inclusion strategy. For this, their service offers a number of multidisciplinary services to stimulate, develop or rehabilitate physical, psychological, relational, language and cognitive Down syndrome.
AMSAT offers:
Orientation
Coeducation
Parental support and early intervention
Specific rehabilitations
Psychological counseling
An external outreach and integration
The association carries out their work through:
- Welcoming, listening, informing, guiding the child with Down syndrome and their families.
- Promote co-education approach and move towards self-determination.
- Bringing families and young people to build a life plan.
- Offering individual projects with the objective development of Down syndrome.
- Working for social integration in all its components: family, school, work, sports and cultural.
- Implement all that may be necessary to the physical, intellectual and moral development of the person with Down syndrome, in accordance with their aspirations.
- Defending and promoting the social integration of people with Down syndrome.
VOLUNTEER’S TASKS
Educational workshops: dance and corporal expression, fine arts, origami, paper recycling, gardening…
Sports activities: physical condition, golf, horse riding, judo, football…
Helping with school activities: teaching assistance.
Helping with stimulation activities: otophone, kinesitheraphy…
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be placed in host families. Further information will be given.
📍 About the location
Rabat airport has a lot of flight connections. Once you get out of it, you will find a bus that costs 20 dirhams and that leaves you in front of the train station. You will find also several taxis that should take you to the city center. You can deal with them the exact point and the price, that should be 100 Dirhams.
Someone can go and pick you up from the airport for 150 Dirhams.
If you arrive to any other airport in Morocco, it will be easy for you to reach Rabat by train, just check the timetables on: www.oncf.ma
⚠️ Requirements
The volunteers are not required to have any previous experience. The center is looking for enthusiastic, positive, patient and respectful people, who are willing to support children with disabilities to learn new skills and develop new relationships in ways that they choose and at a pace they feel comfortable with.
The volunteer must provide a copy of his/her criminal record
🤝 Meeting point
The meeting point will be arranged by email before your arrival to Rabat, once you have passed them your flight details.
ℹ️ Additional information
The values affirmed by AMSAT express a set of principles and convictions. The association works:
- For the dignity of persons with Down syndrome
- For ensuring the inclusion of people with Down syndrome in a decent living conditions
- To respect the uniqueness of each individual
- For the spirit of tolerance, openness and solidarity
- To participate in the general progress of our society through the management of different people.