LET'S DO IT CASBLANCA

Project: While Casablanca is known to be a cosmopolitan and vibrant city, poor areas such as Sbata BEN MSIK still don’t even have children parks, which is why CSM started an environmental program to bring volunteers to do gardening and improvement tasks in public areas in order to provide facilities for the kids and prevent them from playing in the streets (especially because in many areas criminality and car traffic are high). We extended this program to the maintenance of public schools (gardening and renovation) to provide these children with a good learning environment. Apart from activities related to the renovation and brightening-up of the school facilities, the volunteers will have the opportunity to get in touch with locals and be involved in other activities related to Moroccan habits and way of life.

The general organization and responsibility of the work camp falls upon a camp leader who can also propose an outings program to the participants for their spare-times, such as visits of places of interest in the surrounding area, artistic or physic activities, etc. Of course the volunteers are free to do what they wish with their free time and suggest any other activity to the group.

Volunteers task
• Five days of work per week and two days off, not necessarily on weekends (depends on the work schedule.)
• 6 hours of work per day in the morning or in the afternoon.
• Paint the school for basic maintenance purposes and in a creative way bring life into it.
• Clean the residence.
• “Green activities”: Help creating green spaces, planting trees or shrubbery for example.
• Cook in teams with other volunteers, both national and international.
• The association will carry out some extra activities like outings with local children in which the volunteers can take part.