💼 What the programme involves
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.
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.
📍 About the location
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.